From runway, to isolation facility, to arts village
This ground has been put to three uses. CityHome belongs to the third.
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A runway that stopped being one
RUNWAY 1331 takes its name from Kai Tak’s runway 13/31 — the strip that ran out into Victoria Harbour, the one pilots had to swing hard over Kowloon City to line up with. After the airport closed in 1998, the reclaimed land sat empty for years.
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2022: an isolation facility
In 2022 the Kai Tak community isolation facility was built here with central government support, covering roughly 100,000 square metres of site and floor area — rows of modular units laid out along the old runway, among the largest such facilities in Hong Kong at the time.
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2025: an arts village
In 2025 the site reopened as a youth platform putting housing, art, culture, sport and music on one plot, with the aim of reviving the wider Kai Tak area. The same modular blocks were repainted and given external stairs, a runway centreline was painted down the walkways, and a retired aircraft now sits on the lawn beside the RUNWAY 1331 letters.
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Who lives here
The village holds more than 2,500 rooms across a nightly youth hostel and monthly youth apartments. CityHome runs more than 1,000 of the monthly ones, mostly for young people studying, working or making things in Hong Kong.
- Site and floor area
- 100,000㎡
- Rooms across the village
- 2,500+rooms
- CityHome rooms
- 1,000+rooms
- Culture & sport street
- 680m