There are countless other similar sites dotted throughout the territory, all significant buildings or spaces at risk of being crushed in the rush to develop profitable real estate.
Just a few blocks to the west of Southorn Playground, among a small cluster of buildings centred on what is known as Wedding Card Street, a government regeneration plan proposes demolishing the district's only remaining pre-war tenement buildings, a long strip of dishevelled but handsome stores.
Down on Wan Chai's docks, a longstanding legal tussle rages over proposals to reclaim more land from the famous harbor to build a by-pass road. The scheme envisages the loss of a sports stadium and waterfront walkways.
"We really do have to fight tooth and nail to save anything in this city," Lo said.
"Unfortunately we suffer for two things here -- a lack of government will to protect these places and public ignorance of their importance," Lo said.
"People only tend to act once things are too late," she said.
But Lo believes Southorn Playground does not have much to fear from developers.
"It is part of everybody's life here -- there really would be an outrage if that was taken away," she said.
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