While parts of Kennedy Town look and sound like a construction site right now, anyone with their finger on the pulse is pointing to it as Hong Kong’s next up-and-coming hot spot.
By 2014 the three-kilometer extension of the MTR's Island Line from Sheung Wan will be complete -- the neighborhood is bracing itself for big change.
Much like New York’s Meatpacking District, for more than 100 years the Kennedy Town neighborhood served as a cattle depot and slaughterhouse after animals were landed the nearby pier. The slaughterhouse closed in 1993 and for the next 10 years the neighborhood ambled along as a quiet residential area.
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