The chairman of Hopewell Holdings said students and residents may be prevented from using the lifts at his firm’s headquarters, apparently in response to a protest against a plan to build two hotels in Wan Chai. Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung said, however, that he was not threatening anyone.
The lifts have been used as a shortcut to get from Kennedy Road to Queen’s Road East since the 66-storey Hopewell Centre opened in 1980. Without access to the lifts people would have to negotiate several steep flights of stairs.
Sir Gordon said he was thinking of prohibiting access to the lifts after residents formed a group to oppose a $4 billion project to build two hotels next door to the Hopewell Centre.
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