Hanoi parks remain unfinished for years

Kim Quy park in Dong Anh District is the largest proposed park. According to the plan, the 100-hectare park, budgeted at VND4.6 trillion (US$200 million), began in September 2016 and was scheduled to be completed at the end of 2018.
Duy Hoang Duong, head of the city People’s Council’s legal department, said at a meeting with Hanoi leaders that Kim Quy and Hello Kitty are not funded by the city. At a development investment conference in June 2021 the developers of the two parks called on the city to speed up administrative procedures so they could start construction. But they have yet to begin, and as a result huge tracts of land are remaining idle.

Large billboards for the amusement park stand on an empty piece of land.
“Kim Quy has no problems with planning, only with site clearance issues,” Nguyen Truc Anh, director of the Department of Planning and Architecture, said referring to the slow progress.

According to Do Anh Tuan, director of the Department of Planning and Investment, construction plans for Kim Quy Park have been approved and the developers have received almost the entire one million square meters they need.
Kim Quy’s design fuses the Co Loa Citadel and Universal Studio’s modern amusement park. There is currently no construction going on, and this vast area contains only a few small lakes and a bow-shaped concrete road.

Sanrio Hello Kitty World Hanoi, to be built on an area of nearly 30,000 m2 in Yen Phu, Tay Ho District, was announced in May 2019.

Anh said the project plan was approved in 2018 with eight floors and an 80 percent construction density. The issue remaining is land acquisition, which has been entrusted to the developer since there is some privately owned property.

The park is in a beautiful setting near West Lake, Sword Lake and major hotels.

The Ha Dong District sports park was approved by the former Ha Tay Province, now part of Hanoi. Acquisition of 96.7 hectares of land has been done in Ha Cau and Kien Hung wards since 2008.
Following Ha Tay’s merger with Hanoi, the city people’s committee assigned Ha Dong District to carry out the project, which was however put on hold due to a lack of funds.
The land has a makeshift fences.

Many restaurants, warehouses, factories, and others on the park land have corrugated iron roofs.
The park, according to its plan, will have trees, a lake, landscaping, roads, walking paths, a pet market, and a golf course.

The Hanoi People’s Committee decided to reappropriate the land in 2015, and directed Ha Dong District to organize the management, use and temporary exploitation of the land. It has a golf course, a driving range and others.