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Old Posted Jul 11, 2013, 10:01 AM
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Chinatrust confirms HQ sale to proceed


By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter






Chinatrust Financial Holding Co (中信金控) yesterday said it will proceed with the sale of its headquarters building and the adjoining Novel Hall Theater in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義).

The company made the comment after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) urged Chinatrust Financial to preserve the 16-year-old Novel Hall, Taipei’s first privately owned theater, which Minister of Culture Lung Ying-tai (龍應台) and many others have been petitioning to save.

“Chinatrust Financial plans to move its headquarters to a new building in Nangang District (南港) next year and has no choice but to sell its current headquarters and Novel Hall,” the company said in a statement.

Novel Hall was built by Chinatrust Commercial Bank (中國信託銀行) and is run by a culture foundation linked to Chinatrust founder Jeffrey Koo Sr’s (辜濂松) family.

The bank spent NT$1.2 billion (US$40 million) building the theater and has put an extra NT$1 billion over the past 16 years to maintain its operation, the statement said

Chinatrust Financial said it is up to the buyers of the Xinyi building to decide whether to preserve the theater, but added that if the government could help Chinatrust Financial obtain a suitable piece of land, it would try to build a larger and better theater.

Several property investors are reportedly interested in the Chinatrust Financial building, which is valued at NT$25 billion.






Chinatrust is moving its Headquarters to Nangang (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=155872) and intend to sale its old headquarters in Xinyi District. The current building in term of design and floor area does not generate same value as sale price. It mean it has a large possibility that new owner will redevelop and build a taller building on it.

The statutory floor ratio of this zone is 560%. The redevelopment project will gain 50% extra to make it 840%. It can be 200m+ high-rise with this floor ratio.

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