ESCADA Flagship Store and High-end Restaurant Mott 32 Open at Standard Chartered Bank Building


 (Hong Kong, March 24, 2014) Hang Lung Properties Limited (HKSE stock code: 101) is pleased to welcome two premium tenants to the Standard Chartered Bank Building, its headquarters in Central.

International luxury fashion brand ESCADA and high-end Chinese restaurant Mott 32 are both opening their doors at the Standard Chartered Bank Building in March, further enhancing the building's profile as a prestigious commercial tower in the central business district.

Hosting its grand opening on March 20 (Thursday), the ESCADA store occupies 4,000 square feet on the ground floor and offers the current ESCADA and ESCADA SPORT collections. Designed by the brand's architects, the new flagship store features a stunning interior reflecting ESCADA's values of elegance, glamor and sensuality within a modern design. Specially designed glass cases have also been created to showcase the first ever launch of the ESCADA watch and jewelry collection in Hong Kong.

Mott 32, a premium Chinese restaurant dedicated to providing a brand new dining experience for customers, will make its debut in Hong Kong on March 26 (Wednesday). Located in the basement of the Standard Chartered Bank Building and occupying 7,735 square feet, the restaurant is a feature social gathering place for the Central crowd of professionals and jetsetters. Mott 32 offers Cantonese cuisine with ingredients and recipes passed down from generation to generation. The restaurant also provides Sichuan and Beijing dishes. The signature roast duck in both Cantonese and Beijing styles is prepared in custom-made ovens and dehydrators. At the helm of Mott 32 is Chef Fung, formerly an executive chef at the Michelin-starred Dynasty Restaurant in the Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel.

Mr Norman Chan, Director - Leasing & Sales of Hang Lung Properties, says, "We are very pleased to welcome ESCADA and Mott 32 to join our portfolio at the Standard Chartered Bank Building. They will no doubt provide exceptional shopping and dining experience to our customers, thus creating greater synergy with other shops in this exclusive and bustling area of Hong Kong." 

About Hang Lung Properties
Hang Lung Properties Limited, a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index and Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Indices in Hong Kong, is a leading real estate developer in Hong Kong and mainland China. Boasting a diversified portfolio of investment properties in Hong Kong, the Company has progressively branched out into the Mainland since the 1990s, building, owning and managing world-class commercial complexes in key cities, projects that have earned international acclaim for their exceptional quality of architectural design, services and sustainable features.

Riding on the immense success of its two landmark properties in Shanghai, Plaza 66 and Grand Gateway 66, the Company's footprint has expanded to Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Tianjin, Dalian, Kunming and Wuhan, with all the Mainland projects carrying the "66" brand. Subsequent to the grand openings of Parc 66 in Jinan as well as Palace 66 and Forum 66 in Shenyang over the past few years, Center 66, another world-class investment property in Wuxi, came into operation in September 2013. As Hang Lung's business continues to grow, the Company is set to develop into the most admired mega national commercial property enterprise in the market.

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Mrs Megha Mittal, Chairman of ESCADA (third from left), Mr Bruno Sälzer, Chief Executive Officer of ESCADA (second from left), Mr Morten Christensen, Managing Director of ESCADA Asia-Pacific (left), Mr Philip N.L. Chen, Managing Director of Hang Lung Properties Limited (second from right), Mr Norman Chan, Director - Leasing & Sales of Hang Lung Properties Limited (right), and the guest celebrity Ms Michelle Reis (third from right) officiate at the grand opening ceremony of ESCADA's new flagship store in Hong Kong.
Mott 32 offers Cantonese cuisine with ingredients and recipes passed down from generation to generation. The restaurant also provides Sichuan and Beijing dishes.
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