China Blockchain Firm Pursues Hong Kong Tycoon's Boutique Hotel

  • Sharing Economy offering $173 million for Mira Moon property
  • Hotel located near bustling Causeway Bay shopping district
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Sharing Economy International Inc., a Chinese textile machinery maker with blockchain ambitionsBloomberg Terminal, said it’s pursuing the acquisition of a boutique hotel from Hong Kong property billionaire Lee Shau-kee.

A unit of Sharing Economy is offering to buy the Mira Moon Hotel from Lee’s Hong Kong-listed hospitality company, Miramar Hotel & Investment Co., for about HK$1.35 billion ($173 million), Chief Operating Officer Parkson Yip said in a phone interview Tuesday. Yip said he hopes for a deal to be finalized by the end of next month.