Bay South Garden, a section of the waterfront gardens in the new Downtown @ Marina Bay, will open on June 29. It is the largest of the three gardens that make up Gardens By The Bay, Singapore's new green oasis in the city. Bay South features the two cooled conservatories, and the 18 "supertrees". The man-made, tree-like structures tower at between 25 and 50 metres tall. Visitors can look forward to...
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Three new tenants are taking up space at the Tower 3 of Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC). According to a news release, the three are mining group Rio Tinto, Fitness First and The Regus Group. They will collectively occupy a total of 75,000 square feet of the 46-storey tower. Mining giant Rio Tinto will occupy one-and-a-half floors totalling 46,000 square feet when it moves its Singapore staff to MBFC...
Marina Bay will be aglow with colour and light - as more than 30 light art installations take pride of place. A host of interactive fringe events and activities, such as artist talks, night carnivals and photography workshops, will add more buzz. They're part of i Light Marina Bay 2012, Asia's first and only sustainable light art festival. The event, organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, will...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released the detailed sales conditions for a White site at Marina View / Union Street today. The subject land parcel is made available for application under the Reserve List of the second half 2011 Government Land Sales Programme. Developers interested in purchasing the site can now apply to URA for it to be put up for tender. With direct frontage to the planned...
The upcoming Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) Tower 3 has been 60 per cent leased with talks ongoing that could see the rest of the space taken before next year's opening. The confirmed tenants of MBFC's Tower 3 are DBS Group Holdings, McGraw-Hill, and law firms Ashurst, Clifford Chance and WongPartnership. Raffles Quay Asset Management, which manages and markets the property, has a few prospective...
She chose to live in the heart of Raffles Place to be near her workplace but Ms Mia Watanabe did not bargain for the pounding of nearby construction that came with her rented three-bedroom apartment at The Sail at Marina Bay. The expatriate lawyer moved in last December with her husband and says the construction noise from surrounding sites begins at about 9am daily. Now on maternity leave, Ms Watanabe...
Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) has secured over 77 per cent of the building's office net lettable area for OUE Bayfront. The group has also refurbished the former Change Alley Aerial Plaza Tower and Change Alley Link Bridge, renaming them OUE Tower and OUE Link respectively. Net lettable area have been fully taken up. In a press release yesterday, OUE unveiled new tenants at OUE Bayfront include...
Visitors to Gardens by the Bay at Marina Bay can look forward to seeing 162,900 plants comprising more than 200 species and varieties planted on 18 Supertrees, when they opens next year. Some of the bromeliads, orchids and tropical flowering climbers come from Brazil, Panama, Ecuador and Costa Rica. Ranging from 25 to 50 metres in height, some of the Supertrees will have environmentally-sustainable...
There has been a flurry of transactions at The Sail @ Marina Bay, with prices playing catchup with those at Marina Bay Residences (MBR). Last month, a unit at MBR hit an alltime high of $4,368 psf. A 2,368 sq ft apartment on the 46th floor was sold for $10.3 million on April 15. This trumped the previous record of $3,790 psf, which was achieved when a 1,959 sq ft unit on the 46th floor was sold for $7.2...
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said having prime space at downtown Marina Bay to expand the Central Business District gives Singapore a "significant competitive edge" to grow the financial sector at a time when opportunities in Asia abound. He added Marina Bay is a great example of how the country has risen from "mudflats to metropolis". Speaking at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Fullerton Hotel,...