The transcript below is from the video “Bruce Lee’s former mansion in Hong Kong torn down to make way for Chinese studies centre” by South China Morning Post.

South China Morning Post (the website of Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper South China Morning Post):

Kung fu legend Bruce Lee’s old home in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Tong has been demolished to make way for a Chinese studies centre. Developers said they discovered structural problems in the building that made maintaining it unfeasible.

South China Morning Post (the website of Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper South China Morning Post):

Developers said they discovered structural problems in the building that made maintaining it unfeasible.

South China Morning Post (the website of Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper South China Morning Post):

The Yu Pang-lin Charitable Trust, which owns the building, said a mosaic left by Bruce Lee would be retained on a wall outside the mansion, and that four window frames from the two-storey building will be preserved.

South China Morning Post (the website of Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper South China Morning Post): 

Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong mansion demolished.  The former home of Bruce Lee has been demolished.  Efforts to preserve the building ultimately failed.  September 3, 2018…  The 2-storey block was where martial arts legend Bruce Lee spent his final years.  July 12, 2019…  Its current owners say structural problems made it infeasible to maintain.  Only a mosaic Lee left behind, and some window frames are being preserved.

Wong Yiu Keung (Chairman Bruce Lee Club): 

I think even though Bruce Lee passed away 46 years ago, he still lives on in every generation of Hongkongers.  We are all proud of him.  Over the past 46 years, there have been few footprints left behind by Bruce Lee, apart from this former home, we should have well-preserved and treasured it.

South China Morning Post (the website of Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper South China Morning Post):

Since 2008, Wong campaigned to preserve the residence as ‘Bruce Lee Memorial Hall.’  In July, the actor’s fan club also launched an international online petition to save the building.  But the charitable trust that owns the house says the government did not offer to help with preservation.  The Development Bureau responded to the Post’s enquiry for more information with this statement:

“The building in question is not a graded historic building.  Development Bureau has not received any conservation proposal from the owner.”  Hong Kong Development Bureau October 4, 2019

South China Morning Post (the website of Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper South China Morning Post):

The building was at one stage used as a short-stay love hotel.  In 2008, it was offered as a Bruce Lee museum.  But no agreement could be reached on the scope and size of the development.  The site will be redeveloped into a Chinese studies centre.