Central Building, Office building in Central District, Hong Kong.
Central Building is a 17-storey tower at 1–3 Pedder Street, on the corner of Queen's Road Central. Its basement to second floor hold shops, while floors three to seventeen are offices, each with about 14,654 square feet of floor area. The top floor houses the head office of Central Development Limited, and the building is known for its many medical practitioner tenants.
The building was constructed in 1958 under Central Development Limited and replaced the historic Hong Kong Hotel that previously occupied the site. The foundation stone was laid by Hui Oi-Chow, marking a new chapter in the district's commercial evolution.
The building is known as a "doctors' building": many of Hong Kong's best-known physicians keep clinics on its upper floors, and some people simply call it a hospital. Its chairman at the 1957 foundation-stone ceremony, Hui Oi-Chow, was patriarch of the Hui family, one of Hong Kong's four big families.
Central Building stands at 1–3 Pedder Street, at the corner of Queen's Road Central. The nearest MTR access is Central Station Exit G, on the Tsuen Wan and Island lines. The basement to 2nd floor holds shops, while floors 3 to 17 are offices and doctors' clinics, so upper floors are reached by lift and are not a general sightseeing area.
The original stock certificates bore the signature of Kwan Fan-Fat, who owned Golden Dahlia, the horse that won the Hong Kong Derby in 1949. This connection reveals how Hong Kong's financial history intertwined with the city's racing heritage.
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