By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-09 04:41:29 | Updated at 2025-01-09 17:06:32
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Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong Group plans to establish an entertainment zone in the key Silk Road city of Xian, a bet on the mainland Chinese city’s tourism sector and its potential as a burgeoning technological hub, the company’s founder said.
The project will cover 148,000 square metres (1.6 million square feet) in the Xian High-Tech Industries Development Zone (HTIDZ) in the southwestern corner of the city.
“[The project] is huge and it’ll be the largest Lan Kwai Fong we have,” Allan Zeman, the “father of Lan Kwai Fong,” a popular nighttime district in Central, said in an interview with the Post.
“It’s not a normal Lan Kwai Fong that we pictured where there’s only F&B [food and beverage] restaurants, clubs and bars,” he said. “We want to take it one step further, evolving with time, we want to lead the evolution of entertainment.”
The hi-tech zone accounted for about a third of the city’s total gross domestic product,,, with a total population of about 13 million at the end of 2023, the LKF Group said.
The LKF Xian project will include four commercial buildings featuring immersive entertainment, F&B, lifestyle and wellness and technology, it said.
