Launching in summer, the DoubleTree by Hilton Wroclaw (bit.ly/DoubleWroclaw) is set within Ovo, a curvaceous new development of shops, apartments and restaurants.
Minami-machi was an old district of family shops, apartments and port-related businesses on the harbor's west side, where fishing boats unloaded their catch.
Over the last five years, the 20-acre tract on White Clay Creek has undergone a $25 million transformation into offices, shops, apartments and a restaurant.
The $320 million project for the ST Group includes a theater, an arena, conference facilities, galleries, shops, apartments and restaurants, according to a statement from Foster & Partners.
Eko Boulevard will have a clear view of the sea with four lanes of traffic in each direction, wide sidewalks, and high-rise buildings filled with shops, apartments, cafés, bars, and restaurants.
The other nearby megachurch, the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, already has zoning approval for Friendship Village, a complex of shops, apartments, homes, offices and housing for the elderly on 108 acres off Charlotte's beltway.
Much of this valuable space is occupied by railway tracks, stations and roads, but the portfolio also includes offices, shops, apartments, car parks and spare land attached to them.
And at the newly established Pier Village complex along Ocean Avenue, there are chic shops, apartments under gabled roofs, three elegant restaurants and a private beach club with palm trees where members recline while waiters fetch mojitos and crab cakes.
Among the changes are an eight-year redevelopment of Ocean Park, which began in November, and plans to turn the abandoned runway at the closed Kai Tak Airport into a cruise ship terminal, sports stadium, parks, shops, apartments and a hotel.
