The Youth Olympic Park at Marina Bay opened on Saturday with a bang against a backdrop of pyrotechnic display and a line-up of performances. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan who officiated the opening also announced the names of the landmark pedestrian and vehicular bridges at Marina Bay. After a public consultation process in November, the pedestrian bridge is named "The Helix", reflecting its...
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Things are heating up at the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort as it gears up for its preview opening on Tuesday. The integrated resort, the second in Singapore, has been running simulation exercises involving 2,000 guests this week. It said the hotel, stores and part of the exhibition and convention centre will be open. The rest of Marina Bay Sands will open in phases with the grand opening on June...
SINGAPORE's newest landmark in Marina Bay will debut this Saturday. This is the iconic pedestrian bridge shaped like a double helix, which will link the part of the Bay near the floating platform to the soon-to-be opened Marina Bay Sands integrated resort. The official name of the bridge will be unveiled that evening, and the public is invited to catch a two-minute pyrotechnics display, along with music,...
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...
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,...