Anderson Road Quarry, Former quarry site in Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong
Anderson Road Quarry is a former stone extraction site in the Kwun Tong District of Hong Kong that has been converted into a new residential neighborhood. The terrain sits at different elevation levels connected by footbridges, elevator towers, and escalators built into the hillside.
Opened in 1956 on the ridge of Tai Sheung Tok, the quarry was originally due to close in December 2013. It kept working four more years to process rock from the Anderson Road development, and K. Wah's Anderson Asia returned the site to the government on 26 July 2017. Facilities were demolished between March and May 2018, and the 86-hectare site is being developed into a community for 25,000 people.
The quarry takes its name from Anderson Road, the nearby road it was named after. The site was worked by K. Wah Group's Dae Ah Stone, which in 1964 paid HK$164 million for half the operating rights and became the first company in Hong Kong to hold a mining licence. After the 2017 handover, the facilities were demolished between March and May 2018.
The area is best explored on foot, as footbridges and escalators connect the different levels of the hillside. Comfortable walking shoes are a good idea since the paths involve noticeable changes in elevation throughout the site.
Rather than leveling the old quarry ground, planners chose to keep the terraced shape of the excavated hillside and build the neighborhood around it. This means the streets and buildings sit at very different heights, giving the area a vertical layout rarely seen in other parts of Hong Kong.
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