Images: Kai Tak Sports Park
Images have been released today (Tuesday) showing the interior of the main stadium at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Sports Park complex, which is due to open in the coming months.
The 50,000-seat, Populous-designed stadium features a retractable roof and a dedicated stage pocket, enabling it to host music concerts and other events as well as sport. The stadium’s South Deck Terrace also features an event platform for guests.
A glass curtain wall also provides panoramic views of Victoria Harbour, while the seating displays the Chinese characters ‘Kai Tak 啟德’ to celebrate the complex’s heritage.
The wider Kai Tak Sports Park complex will also feature the 5,000-capacity Youth Sports Ground and a 10,000-capacity Kai Tak Arena. Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground hosted the first test event at the complex on October 27, as around 1,000 fans attended a second-tier football match between Sai Kung and Wong Tai Sin.
Over the weekend, Kai Tak Arena hosted its first test event as the basketball teams of Sai Kung and Wong Tai Sun played out a friendly game. Around 8,000 seats were made available for the game.
The Hong Kong Police Force also conducted a stress test of Kai Tak Arena and Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground to evaluate the capability of the venues and their nearby facilities. A number of government bureaus, departments and organisations took part in the test, with the event running “smoothly” according to the police force.
In September, Hong Kong’s Sports Minister Kevin Yeung said that Kai Tak Sports Park was on course to fully open by March, as Kai Tak Stadium achieved technical compliance stats from the government
Last month, Hong Kong property development group New World Development concluded a deal to sell its entire stake in Kai Tak Sports Park to its parent company, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE).
New World had held a 75% stake in Kai Tak Sports Park Ltd, with the remainder controlled by NWS Sports, a subsidiary controlled by conglomerate NWS. New World last month declared that it had entered into a sale and purchase agreement with CTFE through which the latter will take full control of its KTSPL stake at the consideration of HK$416.7m (£42m/€51m/$54m).
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