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stands. Middle Road roughly aligns with the original concave coastline between these two promontories, where once there was a beach. The bay was reclaimed for the construction of the former
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Kowloon Park Drive in August 2016. The building in the centre is The Salisbury YMCA of Hong Kong. Photograph taken from the hill where the
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had won the site with a HK$ 4.7-billion bid. Henderson Land built a commercial tower called "H Zentre", which unlike the old car park is not built overtop of Middle Road.
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and Middle Road in the 1970s. The
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Children's Playground. Elevated, on a platform over the station
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