The Macau New Neighbourhood (MNN) in Hengqin hosted an outdoor Mid-Autumn Festival party yesterday which was attended by hundreds of revellers from Macau, Zhuhai and elsewhere in the mainland – and even some visitors from overseas.
The purpose-built neighbourhood for Macau residents covering a land area of about 190,000 sqm and a total gross floor area of around 620,000 sqm is located in the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, which will celebrate its third anniversary tomorrow. The MNN construction started in 2021 and was completed in November last year.
In less than four years the mega-project comprising 27 residential towers, with their heights ranging from 19 to 26 floors, and around 4,200 flats, consisting of 4,000 home-ownership units and 200 “talent housing units” (for rent only) for high-calibre human resources has been completed. The development, the first of its kind for both Macau and Hengqin, provides fitted-out two-bedroom (80 percent of the total) and three-bedroom units. All units have two balconies and all bathrooms have windows.
While the two-bedroom units are priced from about 2.4 million yuan (2.7 million patacas), the three-bedroom flats have a price tag starting at about 3.5 million yuan.
Holders of a Macau Resident ID card (BIR), aged at least 18, are eligible to buy an MNN flat.
The neighbourhood’s auxiliary facilities, which have already been completed or are nearing completion, include shops, schools, restaurants, a health-care centre, and a senior citizens’ service centre, as well as a family community centre.
On the sidelines of the party, two staff members of the Post had a look at several two- and three-bedroom units yesterday – and both were impressed by their construction quality, layout and design, as well as the project’s convenient location from the Macau-Hengqin joint checkpoint.
The Mid-Autumn Festival party took place between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. According to an MNN statement by the project developer, Macau Urban Renewal Limited, a company fully owned by the Macau government, the party was a double celebration, as it marked both the upcoming 75th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on October 1 and the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) on December 20.
The party involved game booths, a lucky wheel and performances by various singers and bands including Macau’s rising star, singer-actress Vivian Chan Wai Man, praised as a “very nice” person by several of the celebrants.
Peter Lam Kam Seng, who heads Macau Urban Renewal Limited, also attended the double celebration. Lam is a veteran business community and civil society leader.
Photos: MPDG
