Kowloon East – Hong Kong’s CBD 2.0 | AmCham Hong Kong on Glue Up

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Save the dateNovember 7, 20178:00 AM - 9:30 AM GMT+8 Add to Calendar

Venue Location

The American Chamber of Commerce in HK

1904 Bank of America Tower, 12 Harcourt Road
Central, Hong Kong SAR (China)

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Organizer

Organizer: AmCham HK

Phone: +852 25306900

Contact Person: Natalie Yu

Email: nyu@amcham.org.hk

Details

Various decentralized office submarkets are emerging in Hong Kong and will provide occupiers with cost effective options outside of Central, Wan Chai / Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. These emerging office submarkets, with rents only a quarter of the CBD are just a few MTR stops away from Central. Travelling distance will continue to shorten as infrastructure continues to improve.

Not all decentralized submarkets, however, will emerge to form a premier location for decentralized offices. Amongst all, Kowloon East possesses all the attributes in leading office submarkets and best-equipped to become a future CBD of Hong Kong. Kowloon East is no more a submarket just for back offices. It has developed over years and is now a feasible and popular submarket to run large offices.

This event provides a high-level of details of the future Kowloon East CBD and explains the reasons why it has great potential to outperform the other emerging office submarkets.

First 15-20 minutes is for networking
Light breakfast included

Hosted by the Real Estate Committee

Speakers

Marcos Chan

Head of Research, Hong Kong, Southern China & Taiwan at CBRE Limited

Marcos Chan

Head of Research, Hong Kong, Southern China & Taiwan at CBRE Limited

Marcos Chan joined CBRE in 2014 and is currently Senior Director and Head of Research for Hong Kong, Southern China and Taiwan.

Marcos oversees a team of research professionals, covering key property sectors across his region. He is based in Hong Kong and works closely with the China, Asia Pacific and Global Research teams to proactively drive CBRE’s ongoing objective to produce first-class industry insight, research and analysis for CBRE clients. Marcos is a member of CBRE’s Asia Pacific Research Executive Committee.

Marcos has over 18 years of property market experience behind him, 13 of these with JLL where he has held senior positions as Head of Research, Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta, and later Head of Research, North China. In his earlier days, Marcos worked for a Hong Kong developer where he was engaged in pre-acquisition financial analyses and feasibility studies for investment opportunities in the local and overseas real estate markets.

Marcos has a profound understanding of the real estate market in the Greater China region, and with his strong research background in real estate agency, he is well-versed with occupier trends and landlord requirements. Mr Chan is also an active property market commentator in the media.

Marcos holds a Master of Science (Real Estate) from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney.

King-wai Lo

General Manager – Leasing at Sun Hung Kai Real Estate Agency Limited

Christopher Smith

Managing Director, Asia Corporate Real Estate of Manulife

Christopher Smith

Managing Director, Asia Corporate Real Estate of Manulife

Christopher Smith is the Managing Director of Asia Corporate Real Estate for Manulife. The Asia CRE team is responsible for supporting the strategic goals of the business through the provision of corporate real estate services which includes, among other things, strategic occupancy planning, leasing management, project management, and property and asset management associated with the Company’s occupation of all owned and leased office locations throughout Asia (excluding Japan). The team comprises six people in the Hong Kong office, and has additional oversight of staff in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Vietnam.

Chris has been with Manulife since 1989, starting out in the Company’s Head Office in Toronto. He then spent 7 years in Washington, DC Real Estate Office overseeing fit-out projects in the Company’s DC investment portfolio, before moving to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to manage the leasing and design of the Company’s facilities across Canada. He then returned to Toronto, where he spent 7 years managing development and major capital improvements projects across North America and in Asia. Significant projects included development of Schaumburg Corporate Centre Phase III in suburban Chicago, renovation of Manulife Centre in downtown Toronto, residential land development in York Region (suburban Toronto), and development of the Company’s Vietnam Headquarters building in Ho Chi Minh City.

Chris relocated to Hong Kong in 2007, to oversee leasing and fit-out projects in Asia. He has been leading the Asia Corporate Real Estate team since 2013. Most recently, Chris led the team overseeing the fit-out of the Company’s new 500,000 sf offices at Manulife Tower, Hong Kong.

Tickets

Member

Member Price HKD 180

Non-member

HKD 300

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