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Today’s Metro station, tomorrow’s hub

A major redevelopment project featuring innovative firsts for Shanghai gets under way this month, aimed at transforming the Xinzhuang Metro station in Minhang District into a traffic hub and commercial center.

The ambitious project is expected to be completed in 2022, the city government announced earlier this month.

The plan calls for the current terminus of Metro lines 1 and 5 to be transformed into a 700,000 square meter complex, linked to the Shanghai-Hangzhou and Jinshan mainline railways. The existing bus station will be retained but expanded.

“This will be the first ‘transit-oriented’ development project in Shanghai,” said He Bin, general manager of Shanghai Xintian Properties Co Ltd, which is spearheading the project. “The model has been widely adopted in developed countries because it combines efficient land and transport planning.”

It’s a complicated project, he admitted, because it embraces subway, bus and railway lines, along with new residential and commercial areas.

The original plan of the project was drafted back in 2007, but it has undergone a series of adjustments and refinements that delayed groundbreaking.

The project will include features never before seen in China. Above the Metro lines, there will be a “hanging space” on the south side of the existing station. Three commercial buildings, a hotel and three high-end residential buildings to be built there are set for completion in 2016.

“The buildings, of course, will solidly stand on the ground,” said He. “The hanging space actually is the roof of the podiums of the buildings. The buildings will be entirely safe and also sound-proofed so that residents and workers will be shielded from Metro and railway noise.”

The hanging space will be a new landmark in Minhang as well as Shanghai. Big companies are expected to lease offices there. The shopping malls will complement the existing Parkson and Cloud Nine Mall in the area.

Three levels of underground parking at the hub complex will provide spaces for 3,000 cars.

The present station hall will be expanded to three times its present size, with completion of that segment expected in 2018.

He said the current 170,000 daily passenger volume in the station will increase threefold when the whole transport hub is completed.

“Present Metro services will not be affected during the redevelopment,” he said. “We will channel people into the station through separate passageways.”




 

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