Over the last nine years as the Jurong Lake area was being rejuvenated, small business owners started noticing an uptick in sales. This was because more residents were choosing to spend their time in the area on weekends instead of travelling to other estates, said Jurong Town Centre Merchant Association chairman Tan Kah Ann. The addition of a children's playground and a green roof pavilion at J...
A new integrated tourism development will be set up at the Jurong Lake District by 2026, in line with the Government’s strategy to "spread out its tourism offerings across different parts of Singapore", said Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Chee Hong Tat on Tuesday (Apr 16). “With its unique waterfront environment and location adjacent to the new Jurong Lake Gardens and the new...
The High-Speed Rail (HSR) between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore would have been a bonus for the Jurong area. But now that the project is postponed, property analysts and businesses do not believe it will have a significant impact on the prices of homes, retail or office buildings. When the railway is eventually built, retail property, in particular, may get a slight boost in value from the expected...
The team led by KCAP Architects&Planners is to develop the detailed master plan for Jurong Lake District, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) announced on Wednesday (Feb 8). The team's proposal received the highest score among those of the five teams shortlisted for stage 2 of the Jurong Lake District request for proposal (RFP) exercise, the agency added in its press release. URA said KCAP's...
Five teams have been shortlisted to develop a concept master plan for the Jurong Lake District, billed as Singapore’s second Central Business District, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said on Tuesday (Sep 27). “This marks another important step towards realising the vision of Jurong Lake District as a ‘district of the future’ and our second Central Business District,” URA said in a...
The Government’s vision for Jurong’s transformation into a distinctive, mixed-use heartlands business hub is gathering pace, following the news that the area will be home to the terminus for the Singapore-Malaysia High Speed Rail (HSR). While many residents seem enthusiastic about the energy and vibrancy that is being added to what used to be a quiet, unfashionable part of Singapore, some are...
THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) on Monday, inviting multi-disciplinary teams to develop master plan proposals for Singapore's Jurong Lake District. This signals the first step of the area's transformation into "A district of the future", and the city-state's second Central Business District (CBD), URA said in a release. The teams are expected to comprise...
A steering committee has been set up to drive the development plans for Jurong Lake District and its surrounding areas, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said. The committee will be headed by Culture, Community and Youth Minister Lawrence Wong. It will comprise members from the public and private sectors, as well as the community. Mr Tharman, who also a Member of Parliament for Jurong GRC,...
Genting Singapore broke ground for its new hotel in Jurong on Thursday. Slated to open in the first half of 2015, the new development is set to be the first hotel to open in the Jurong Lake District. This comes after the Urban Redevelopment Authority identified the district as a new growth area with commercial, business and leisure facilities. The 550-room hotel will be the seventh hospitality...
A jazzed up Jurong is primed to become a hip town Its name pays homage to England's famous Lake District, whose scenic beauty has been immortalised in numerous paintings and poems. And perhaps Jurong Lake District will soon inspire its own cultural rhapsodies - this 360-ha region, after all, is in the midst of a major makeover that will transform it into Singapore's "jewel in the west", with enticing...
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