Macau Urban Renewal Limited (MUR) announced in a statement yesterday that basement works are currently being conducted for the Macau New Neighbourhood (MNN) project in Hengqin, with work to the ground level (works for all basement structures) being expected to be completed by the middle of the year.
Pile foundation works for the MNN project were completed at the end of last year.
The statement noted that construction work for the project’s kindergarten and primary school buildings began in March, along with its health station, seniors’ service centre, and the family service centre. The residential towers and auxiliary facilities’ construction are expected to be completed and inspected by mid-2023, the statement added.
The MNN livelihood project started in 2021 and will have around “4,000 residential units available for sale and over 200 housing units for talented professionals”, according to the statement.
The statement pointed out that the neighbourhood will have amenities and facilities such as a kindergarten (12 classes) and a primary school (18 classes), a health station, and an underground car park, with Macau standard public services provided. It will also have more than 5,000 square metres of commercial space.
The statement said that the project was going according to plan. A total of 3,103 bored piles were installed on the site last year, the statement pointed out, with almost 20 tower cranes currently at work. This year, the construction of the “basement, main buildings, residential units fitting-out, roads, and greening facilities” will take place, with the main structures expected to reach “the topping-out stage” before the end of the year.
Around 190,000 square metres of land area are covered by the project, with a floor area of about 620,000 square metres, and it will have 27 residential towers connected by “wind and rain corridors to facilitate pedestrian access”.
The statement added that “Southern European features” will be integrated into some of the designs in the neighbourhood’s open communal spaces, street lamps and railings “to create an ideal living and working environment similar to Macau”.
The neighbourhood’s public services such as education and social and medical services “will be docked with their Macau counterparts” upon completion.
This undated handout photo provided by Macau Urban Renewal Limited (MUR) yesterday shows work being done on the ground level at the Macau New Neighbourhood (MNN) in Hengqin.
