Hong Kong Greenfield Sites Disneyland

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Hong Kong Greenfield Sites- Disneyland

• Xavier Lau
• Kiran Jayaprakash
• Sanchit Kumar
• Valencia Myint

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What is a Greenfield site?

• Greenfield sites are areas of land surrounding
  urban areas which have never been developed.
• Main examples of Greenfield sites are countryside
  and reclaimed land.
• The land can be used mainly for residential,
  commercial, or recreational uses, as a
  transportation link in a network, as an
  industrial region, or as a sewage/landfill site.

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Introduction

• Name of site Disneyland
• Location over reclaimed land in Pennys Bay,
  Lantau Island

Before
After
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Disneyland Development

• Whole resort takes up 310 acres of land
• Consists of 4 major theme parks
• It cost 14.7 billion dollars to complete the
  entire project.
• 148 billion dollars are predicted in economic
  benefits.
• 10 million visitors are predicted for the first
  year.
• There will be in total 2100 hotel rooms, and
  28000 square meters of retail, dining, and
  entertainment complexes.

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Push and Pull factors

• Push Factors of Central Urban areas
• No space
• Land is very expensive
• Congestion
• A lot of pollution
• Noise
• Pull Factors of Greenfield sites
• More space for development
• Cheap land
• More land/space for expansion (for hotels,
  parks etc)
• Better transport networks
• Less noise and pollution

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Benefits and Problems

• Advantages
• Hong Kong Disneyland will attract millions of
  tourists a year, create jobs and bring business
  and improve the economy in general.
• The theme park has the potential to provide Hong
  Kong with a net economic benefit of up to 148
  billion over 40 years.
• Over 5 million will visit the park in the first
  year, with this figure rising gradually  to
  around 10 million a year after 15 years.
• About 18 400 new jobs are expected to be created
  directly and indirectly on opening, rising to 35
  800 over a 20 year period.
• Around 6 000 jobs are expected to be created
  during the construction of facilities for Phase I
  of Hong Kong Disneyland. In addition, some 10 000
  jobs are expected to be created by the land
  reclamation and other infrastructural works
  funded by the Government.

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• Large amounts of pollution will be created with
  the reclaimed land.
• Countryside will be destroyed by transportation
  links
• Other projects such as old age homes have lost
  priority, and will now take much longer to build.
• Problems with influx in mainland visitors
  bringing poor unsanitary habits with them ie
  smoking in non smoking areas, spitting, urinating
  in flowerbeds, walking barefoot around the park
  etc.
• Several species of fish and birds were killed,
  affecting fishermen and other small businesses
  reliant on these species for survival.

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Conclusion

• The factors that led to Disneyland being built in
  Pennys Bay were justified, with greater
  development space, cheaper land etc.
• Despite this and the economic benefits of the new
  park, the government failed to see environmental
  hazards with the creation of Disneyland.
• There were also particular problems with mainland
  visitors overcrowding the area and also failing
  to observe proper behaviour in the parks, causing
  more problems environmentally.
• Disneyland is currently undergoing development
  for the creation of 3 more themed parks by 2008
  (rumored).