{"id":81163,"date":"2018-02-27T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/empire-group-to-invest-us1-28b-converting-famous-mariners-club-site-into-combined-hotel-and-home-from-home-for-seafarers\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T01:04:33","slug":"empire-group-to-invest-us1-28b-converting-famous-mariners-club-site-into-combined-hotel-and-home-from-home-for-seafarers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/empire-group-to-invest-us1-28b-converting-famous-mariners-club-site-into-combined-hotel-and-home-from-home-for-seafarers\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Group to invest US$1.28b converting famous Mariners\u2019 Club site into combined hotel and home from home for seafarers"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn Hong Kong\u2019s bustling Tsim Sha Tsui area, a grand, blue and white building quietly stands west of the lush Signal Hill Garden and north of the Middle Road Children\u2019s Playground. It was built half a century ago to welcome seafarers, eagerly craved a holiday on dry land.
\nThe first \u201cSailor\u2019s Home\u201d in the city was opened in 1863 by firms such as Jardine Matheson to accommodate sailors when Hong Kong was still primarily an entrep\u00f4t. The concept\u2019s most-…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Empire Group to invest US.28b converting famous Mariners\u2019 Club site into combined hotel and home from home for seafarers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Hong Kong\u2019s bustling Tsim Sha Tsui area, a grand, blue and white building quietly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-l75","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42337,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-to-defend-maritime-industry-against-cheap-foreign-seafarers\/","url_meta":{"origin":81163,"position":0},"title":"UK to defend maritime industry against cheap foreign seafarers","date":"January 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...UK to defend maritime industry against cheap foreign seafarers","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24563,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shipping-industrys-shame-over-pay-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":81163,"position":1},"title":"Shipping industry\u2019s shame over pay | Letters","date":"September 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Polly Toynbee\u2019s article about the British shipping industry (Docked wages: how British ship owners undercut pay, 30\u00a0August) shines a welcome light on the dubious morality of employing low paid (and even unpaid) foreign crews in ships operating around the country\u2019s coast when hundreds of British seafarers are being made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":76186,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/owners-of-hong-kong-hotels-see-greater-value-in-converting-them-into-office-complexes\/","url_meta":{"origin":81163,"position":2},"title":"Owners of Hong Kong hotels see greater value in converting them into office complexes","date":"January 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong\u2019s tourism industry may be on the upswing after a three-year downturn as more tourists visit from the mainland, but this has not stopped hotel owners toying with the idea of converting them into office complexes amid strong demand and the prospect of bigger profit. 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