Mei Foo Sun Chuen 美孚新邨 (HK)

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Mei Foo Sun Chuen (美孚新邨) or simply Mei Foo is a large private housing estate in Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Mei Foo Sun Chuen was the first large scale private housing estate in Hong Kong and at the time of completion, the 99 tower complex was considered the largest private housing development in the world, accommodating some 70,000 – 80,000 people in 13,500 apartments. It is considered to be one of the world's largest privately financed residential condominium projects.

The 40-acre Mei Foo Sun Chuen, with a total of ninety-nine blocks, was completed from 1968 to 1978 in eight separate but interconnected stages. It is located on the reclamation that had been a large petroleum-storage facility of Mobil (now part of ExxonMobil) in Hong Kong (Mobil's Chinese trading name in Hong Kong is 美孚; Mei Foo) from the 1920s. The redevelopment was carried out by Mei Foo Investments Limited, a subsidiary company of Mobil Oil (Hong Kong) Limited.

Mei Foo Sun Chuen Post Office was opened 1973.12.14; it is currently (August 2019) located at: Shop No. 115, Ground Level, West Rail Mei Foo Station.

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MEI FOO SUN CHUEN/HONG KONG 1 1982.07.29

MEI FOO SUN CHUEN/HONG KONG 1 1982.08.04