Invitation for Expression of Interest for Main Operator of URA Mallory Street/Burrows Street Revitalisation Project "Art Community"
The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) tomorrow (Friday) will invite
interested parties to submit expressions of interest for the Main
Operator of the Mallory Street/Burrows Street Revitalisation
Project "Art Community" in Wan Chai.
The project, comprising a cluster of 10 pre-war Grade 2 historic
buildings, will be revitalised into a hub for culture and creative
industries.
The Main Operator of the revitalised building cluster will serve
as a facility manager, an event organiser as well as a branding
agent responsible for property management, organising events and
daily operation, in addition to teaming up with various
tenants/operators.
Operated in the form of an "Art Community", the Main Operator will
have to promote culture and creative industries in Hong Kong with
the following objectives:
- Community - enhance, collaborate and co-own among diverse and
cross-disciplinary operators/tenants
- Sense of belonging - advocate a higher degree of participation
amongst tenants
- Space usage - achieve better and full utilization of space with
all participating tenants in the community
- Diversity - bring in non-residential arts organisations/artists so as to diversify the types of events taking place in the Mallory Street project.
It is expected that the management contract for the Main
Operator will be awarded by end of 2010. Construction works
of the project will be completed by mid-2012.
Submissions should be made to the URA Headquarters at 10/F, Low
Block, Grand Millennium Plaza, 181 Queen's Road Central, by 5 pm on
16 August 2010 (Monday).
Interested parties with relevant experience, track records and
capability to establish and manage a creative community comprising
operators from various sectors of the creative industry will be
shortlisted and invited for tender submission in due course.
(ENDS)