Banyan Garden
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Banyan Garden (Chinese: 泓景臺) is a highrise private housing estate in Hong Kong. Located in Cheung Sha Wan of New Kowloon, it was built on a former site of a shipyard which was relocated owning to the commencement of the West Kowloon Reclamation. The estate is in adjacent to liberté. Together with The Pacifica, the three estates are packed in an island of high residential buildings between Lai Chi Kok Road and Sham Shing Road.
Banyan Garden is comprised of seven towers. Each of the tallest towers (tower 2, 6 and 7) has 57 floors and the roof height is 191 metres (627 feet). They are among the 100 tallest residential skyscrapers.
The estate is located within walking distance from the Lai Chi Kok Station of MTR.
The estates was built by Cheung Kong Holdings, a corporation founded by Li Ka Shing. Its shopping centre thus has PARKnSHOP and the broadband services is monopolised by Hutchison Whampoa.
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- Banyan Garden. skyscraperpage.com.
