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...
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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...
Las Vegas Sands said it plans to open the first phase of its US$5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands development on 27 April 2010. Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands, said the integrated resort will immediately go to work by hosting its first event - the Inter-Pacific Bar Association's annual conference - just days after opening its doors. The second phase will open on June...
A new road network will be built progressively in the new downtown Marina Bay area as part of the Land Transport Authority's new developments in 2010. This is to serve upcoming developments such as the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort and the Marina Bay Financial Centre. Motorists travelling to the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort can soon use a new bridge and road. The Bay Bridge connects directly...
The upcoming Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore could break even at the operating level within the first or second month of opening. This bullish forecast was given by Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson. He said the resort is set to open at the end of March 2010 although it could be delayed by a couple of weeks. When fully completed, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort will boast of more...
The heat is on for the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort to open with a bang next year. But with delays and escalating construction costs earlier this year, people have been left guessing when the doors will open. Sources have told MediaCorp the earliest the resort will start operations is in April. But some industry observers said June is a more realistic date. They said the resort is determined to...
Marina Bay Sands on Monday said it has signed over 30 deals for premier events at its new Expo and Convention Centre. This is expected to attract over 150,000 attendees to the integrated resort when it opens next year. Marina Bay Sands said it has sealed events from a wide range of industries, from the engineering and legal sector to life sciences and renewable energy. Some events are marking their...
The completion of the upcoming Marina Bay Sands integrated resort next year and the VIP private preview of the 221-unit Marina Bay Suites have put the spotlight back on The Sail @ Marina Bay. Sales activity at the 1,111 unit The Sail has picked up pace in recent weeks. Nine transactions were done in the first week of November alone — versus 10 deals achieved for all of October. Prices achieved in the...
A hotel guest once called Ms Christine Kaelbel-Sheares at 2am, wanting to throw a party with bar service and a deejay for 40 friends within half an hour. Another guest and his wife wanted to rent Elvis and Marilyn Monroe costumes for Halloween at the eleventh hour, when rental shops in Las Vegas were already largely out of stock. Requests like these were the norm for Ms Kaelbel-Sheares when she was...
The S$4-billion Marina Bay Financial Centre mega project is on target despite the global downturn. In a year, phase one of the Marina Bay Link Mall under the Centre will be up and running, with tenants moving into the offices above. Raffles Quay Asset Management (RQAM), who has revealed plans to make the 176,000-square-foot mall a place to "Shop, Dine and Play", said the response rate has been...