Get set for an evening of jazz and electronica (with hints of classical) at a waterfront concert near Coloane Village on 17 February.
Lai Chi Vun shipyards
The concessionaire will partner with the government on the addition of a cycling park, ice rink, and performance venues to a site that was already partly refurbished earlier this year.
The Inner Harbour regeneration project is part of a wider plan by the government to involve gaming concessionaires in urban gentrification.
Plans are afoot to transform the historic quarter into a ‘cultural and creative park’ through a public-private partnership.
An exhibition about the history of boatbuilding in the area, plus space for a craft market and live music, will be launched this weekend.
Government plans to invest MOP 42 million to transform ramshackle area into cultural event space.
Tumbledown yards, once one of the city’s main industries, to be reborn as cultural and creative area, with first phase completed within one year.
The Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) said in a statement on Monday that its staff members had found a large amount of recyclable items at one of the old shipyards in Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun hamlet.
During the Thursday press conference, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) also introduced its Black Box Theatre project, the revitalisation and partial opening of the former Iec Long Firecracker Factory in Taipa and the Lai Chi Vun shipyards in Coloane.
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