Hong Kong arts hub selling land to stay afloat
Shawna Kwan
In 1998, a year after the return of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to China, the city’s government conceived an ambitious goal for the financial hub: to build an arts district to rival some of the world’s top cultural destinations.
Today, the West Kowloon Cultural District – a reclaimed area on Victoria Harbour around one-tenth of Manhattan’s Central Park in size – remains unfinished.
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