MLC Tower

The MLC Tower (also called Sunlight REIT or CEF Life Tower^[1] ) is a 40 storeyed ^[2] skyscraper located at 248 Queen's Road East, in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong. It stands 156 metres (512 ft) tall and has 40 floors. Designed by Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates,^[3] it was completed in 1998.^[4]

The building is managed by Henderson Sunlight Asset Management, a subsidiary of Henderson Land Development Hong Kong, a company which also developed the International Finance center.^[5]

The MLC in the name stands for Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company^[6] - an Australian life insurance company formed in 1908.^[7] The building was renamed CEF Life tower when, in 1998, six floors of the building were leased out to CEF Life^[8] (Canadian Eastern Life assurance, renamed CEF Lend Lease,^[9] now owned by AXA Hong Kong^[10]), a company partly owned by Lee Ka Shing's Cheung Kong holdings.^[11]

Companies

• Starbucks - Ground floor
• HKEAA (Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority) - 7th floor^[12]
• Social welfare department - 15th floor (Licensing Office of Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities)^[13]
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong - 12th floor
• KLM Dutch airlines - 17th floor^[14]
• APJ Corp (Ai Pu Jing software) - 20th floor^[15]
• Anglo-Eastern Group -23rd floor
• Asia Money Plus - 27th floor^[16]

External links

• Sunlight Reit - Official website
• Henderson Land - Official website

References

1. "Henderson signs up CEF Life". South China Morning Post. 25 November 1998. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
2. "Property Overview". www.sunlightreit.com. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
3. "MLC Tower / CEF Life Tower". Building directory. Emporis. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
4. "MLC Tower". Skyscraper database. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
5. "henderson land development : Sin Kee Au". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
6. "HK MLC Tower". The Simtropolis Community. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
7. Wickens, Chas (1922). The Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia : 15. Melbourne: Commonwealth bureau of census and statistics. p. 710.
8. "Lend Lease Acquires CEF Life For A$250 Million". Insurance supermart. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
9. Warren Gilman, Chairman and CEO, CEF Holdings. Hongkong: Mines and money. 2013.
10. "CEF Lend Lease and AXA". Avox Data. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
11. "Lend Lease snaps up CEF Life". South China Morning Post. 22 October 1999. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
12. "Offices". HKEAA. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
13. "REHABILITATION AND MEDICAL SOCIAL SERVICES BRANCHES". Hongkogn Social Welfare Department. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
14. "KLM Dutch airlines". HKTDC Listing. HKTDC. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
15. "APJ Corp - Hongkong office". www.apjcorp.com. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
16. "Contact details". Asia Money Plus. Retrieved 10 December 2013.

Coordinates: 22°16′28″N 114°10′25″E / 22.27450°N 114.1735°E