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Private Sector Hysan Place: Creating a Sustainable
Projects Community Through Visionary Thinking
Well known as Hong Kong’s retail and food guided by the principle of being a responsible were fishermen, tenant farmers, masons and
mecca, as well as a hub of entertainment, business that takes into account the needs of peddlers.
Causeway Bay is one of the world’s most its stakeholders, including its impact on the
renowned commercial districts. Within the environment and the communities it serves. Development, though, was just around the
district, just south of the island’s tram tracks, The fact that Hysan Development (with the corner. Jardine Matheson, a major British
lies the characteristic Lee Gardens, an area Lee family as its largest single shareholder) trading house bought East Point Hill and other
with a celebrated history stretching back and its predecessor companies (owned nearby plots from a government land auction,
90 years. This is the home base of Hysan privately by the same Lee family) have been and moved its headquarters from Canton
Development, a listed property investment a mainstay in Lee Gardens and Causeway (now Guangzhou) to East Point, constructing
company that is the largest commercial Bay for nine decades means that when Hysan roadways, warehouses, mansions for its
landlord in Causeway Bay. The latest addition Place was first conceived, the mindset was senior staff and a pier. It is believed that
to Hysan’s portfolio at its northern gateway is never ’how to get the last cent out of the the site was chosen for its good local water
Hysan Place. Just two years after its opening, project‘, but rather ’how best to design and source, as well as its well-protected bay
Hysan Place is already regarded as a Hong construct a new building that will play a for anchorage. A sugar refinery also started
Kong retail landmark, with its office portion major part in the development of the area into operation in the area. In the meantime, the
housing many top international corporations. a sustainable community.‘ coastline of Causeway Bay was extended
northwards through reclamation. Thus,
Beyond its commercial successes, however, Hysan Place is located at 500 Hennessy within two decades of its initial development,
the 40-storey Hysan Place is also known for Road, a main east-west thoroughfare on the area saw rapid changes from a fishing/
its intelligent design and features that put Hong Kong Island with dozens of bus routes farming community into something of a
environmental concerns high on the agenda. and the territory’s tram tracks on the street trading zone.
It is no coincidence that Hysan Place was level, and the MTR underground railway
among the first recipients of BEAM Plus below ground. In the mid 19th century, this Still, when Mr Lee Hysan capitalised on
Platinum certification for new buildings, and was part of East Point Hill, a tough granite the expected eastward shift of economic
was the first mixed-use office and vertical mound that jutted out into the harbour development on the island and bought East
mall complex in Greater China to be awarded between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Point Hill from Jardine Matheson in 1923,
LEED Platinum for Core and Shell by the United Peninsula. Its hinterland on the island was it was still a pristine outcrop with little
States Green Building Council. This all goes still very rural, with a handful of villages and development on it. This is unsurprising since
back to the core values of Hysan, a company no more than 300 inhabitants. The residents it was still the site of mansions for Jardine’s
152 HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014
Projects Community Through Visionary Thinking
Well known as Hong Kong’s retail and food guided by the principle of being a responsible were fishermen, tenant farmers, masons and
mecca, as well as a hub of entertainment, business that takes into account the needs of peddlers.
Causeway Bay is one of the world’s most its stakeholders, including its impact on the
renowned commercial districts. Within the environment and the communities it serves. Development, though, was just around the
district, just south of the island’s tram tracks, The fact that Hysan Development (with the corner. Jardine Matheson, a major British
lies the characteristic Lee Gardens, an area Lee family as its largest single shareholder) trading house bought East Point Hill and other
with a celebrated history stretching back and its predecessor companies (owned nearby plots from a government land auction,
90 years. This is the home base of Hysan privately by the same Lee family) have been and moved its headquarters from Canton
Development, a listed property investment a mainstay in Lee Gardens and Causeway (now Guangzhou) to East Point, constructing
company that is the largest commercial Bay for nine decades means that when Hysan roadways, warehouses, mansions for its
landlord in Causeway Bay. The latest addition Place was first conceived, the mindset was senior staff and a pier. It is believed that
to Hysan’s portfolio at its northern gateway is never ’how to get the last cent out of the the site was chosen for its good local water
Hysan Place. Just two years after its opening, project‘, but rather ’how best to design and source, as well as its well-protected bay
Hysan Place is already regarded as a Hong construct a new building that will play a for anchorage. A sugar refinery also started
Kong retail landmark, with its office portion major part in the development of the area into operation in the area. In the meantime, the
housing many top international corporations. a sustainable community.‘ coastline of Causeway Bay was extended
northwards through reclamation. Thus,
Beyond its commercial successes, however, Hysan Place is located at 500 Hennessy within two decades of its initial development,
the 40-storey Hysan Place is also known for Road, a main east-west thoroughfare on the area saw rapid changes from a fishing/
its intelligent design and features that put Hong Kong Island with dozens of bus routes farming community into something of a
environmental concerns high on the agenda. and the territory’s tram tracks on the street trading zone.
It is no coincidence that Hysan Place was level, and the MTR underground railway
among the first recipients of BEAM Plus below ground. In the mid 19th century, this Still, when Mr Lee Hysan capitalised on
Platinum certification for new buildings, and was part of East Point Hill, a tough granite the expected eastward shift of economic
was the first mixed-use office and vertical mound that jutted out into the harbour development on the island and bought East
mall complex in Greater China to be awarded between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Point Hill from Jardine Matheson in 1923,
LEED Platinum for Core and Shell by the United Peninsula. Its hinterland on the island was it was still a pristine outcrop with little
States Green Building Council. This all goes still very rural, with a handful of villages and development on it. This is unsurprising since
back to the core values of Hysan, a company no more than 300 inhabitants. The residents it was still the site of mansions for Jardine’s
152 HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014
