14 Nam Cheong Street

14 Nam Cheong Street (Chinese: 为群公寓) is a 6-story building in Hong Kong completed in 1964. The building is a fourth-gen tong lau. It is a corner house.

14 Nam Cheong Street in 2017. (Pre-renovation)
14 Nam Cheong Street in 2023. (Post-renovation)

The building is located in Sham Shui Po District in West Kowloon, at the junction of Nam Cheong Street and Boundary Street. It is busy with people and the units inside are very small.

History

The land was surveyed by the Lands Department.

There are two theories:[1]

  1. A theory claimed that it belonged to a wealthy man. According to the Land Registry, the first and second floors of this building were sold to a company for 6 million yuan back in 1991.
  2. Another theory states that a person surnamed Cai claimed that this is his ancestral land. The building before is a two-story tenement. Four stories were built and added in its later years.

In 2015, Mascotte Holdings Limited acquired a number of flats for HKD 34.6 million.[2]

In 2019, the building was renovated as of today. Its exterior is now colored bronze and its terraces are sealed. The red handwriting sign vanished.[3][4]

Other buildings

References
  1. 陳慧敏 (2015-04-07). "六十年代的板間生活". 蘋果日報. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  2. "深水埗弧形街角樓易手". 蘋果日報. 2015-12-22. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  3. Siu Yeung (2019-02-04). "深水埗為群公寓翻新面目全非？網民劣評「核突」". E-zone. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  4. "【網民hot talk】活化唐樓淪豆豉鯪魚罐 裝修被嘲失原味". 蘋果日報. 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
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