The world's first curved double helix pedestrian bridge will open to the public on April 24 from 9.30pm. Located at Marina Bay, the pedestrian bridge will connect Marina Centre to the Bayfront area. The bridge will also lead to the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort when phase 2 of the IR opens this June. For motorists, there will be a new vehicular bridge located just beside the double helix...
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A NEW tenant is set to move into the top floors of OUB Centre at One Raffles Place for 10 years, where it will operate the tower's viewing gallery and roof-top restaurant. OUB Centre said yesterday that restaurant, cafe and bar operator Synergyinthesky will take up 16,000 sq ft of commercial space on the top three levels of the tower, where it recently added 6,000 sq ft of space for a viewing...
SINGAPORE is helping to shape a new era in Asian finance, thanks to its well-regulated but business-friendly financial regime, said Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday. And, as a 'work, live and play' destination, the $4 billion Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) is poised to support Singapore in its next era of growth, he said at the topping-out ceremony for MBFC's 50-storey Tower...
SIXTY-FIVE per cent of the space in phase one of Marina Bay Link Mall has been taken up and the mall will open for business in the fourth quarter of this year. The 5,202 sq m mall will house retail and food-and-beverage outlets such as Din Tai Fung, Absolut Thai, an Apple concept store and Four Seasons Market Place. Wilson Kwong, chief executive of Raffles Quay Asset Management, announced the...
Leasing momentum in the office sector remains strong with an improving economy. Analysts said this has drastically cut the amount of so-called "shadow space" or vacant office space not on the market. In the first half of 2009, shadow space was 550,000 square feet. Now, it's just a tenth of it. Meanwhile, demand for new office space like the Marina Bay Financial Centre has eased concerns of a supply...
Singapore's Marina Bay Sands integrated resort will add more hotel rooms in the downtown area currently home to at least nine hotel chains. But the existing players see opportunities from the new kid on the block rather than threats. The tower blocks are now prominent landmarks in downtown Marina Bay. Hotels in the vicinity are watching the anticipated opening of Marina Bay Sands more with excitement than...
NEARLY all of the first phase of the giant Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) has been leased ahead of its completion later this year. Every office suite - with the exception of a small percentage reserved for existing tenants' expansion - is now taken, several months prior to the phase's official completion in the third quarter. Phase 1 consists of commercial Towers One and Two, and has a total office...
Property developer Keppel Land said almost all the rental space available under the first phase at the Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) has been taken up ahead of completion. The space was nearly fully utilised after investment bank, Barclays Capital, committed to leasing ten additional floors at MBFC Commercial Tower Two. This brings the total amount of space it leased to about 350,000 square feet,...
A small percentage of space is reserved for existing tenants' expansion MARINA Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) Tower 2 is close to being fully leased, after a new tenant came on board and an existing one took on more space. Prudential Asset Management (Singapore) will be leasing one and a half floors at the building, which works out to around 37,000 square feet of space. It will move in next year on a...
I THANK Mr Thomas Toh for his letter last Tuesday, 'Restore Clifford Pier to new glory', in which he reminisced about the bumboats that used to ply Clifford Pier. Following the construction of the Marina Barrage, bumboats and other commercial vessels now operate from Marina South Pier. There are still small boats, water taxis and cruise boats that will ply Marina Bay to ferry visitors to and from the...