Over 120 stores, 10 malls presenting FSO2010 to masses FROM today to May 9, fashion will take centre stage at Orchard Road. The Orchard Road Business Association (Orba), in partnership with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and official card MasterCard, will be organising Fashion Season @ Orchard 2010 (FSO 2010) - six weeks of fashion-related events and parties that aim to make fashion accessible to the...
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Overcrowding has become a safety issue at Mustafa Centre, and the management has expanded its premises to accommodate more shoppers. This is in response to a possible Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) court order. If confirmed, the first storey of the 24-hour shopping centre risks being temporarily closed. The centre, which sees up to 10,000 shoppers daily, has expanded certain areas in its premises...
POPULAR retailer Mustafa was fined $10,000 yesterday, after it pleaded guilty to illegally using its six-storey warehouse building in Kallang Pudding Road for retail sales. The fine caps a saga which began last November, when the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) served a writ of summons on Mustafa for converting the first two levels of its warehouse into a department store and a supermarket. These...
JAPANESE mall operator Parco opened its new department store at Millenia Walk yesterday. The retailer's $10 million, 85,000 square foot Parco Marina Bay occupies the space formerly occupied by DFS Galleria, which was later replaced by several smaller shops including piano and dance studios. Parco has set aside 6,000 sq ft of space on the second level for the government-backed next Next Fashion Incubator...
Overcrowding has become a safety issue at Mustafa Centre, and the management has expanded its premises to accommodate more shoppers. This is in response to a possible Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) court order. If confirmed, the first storey of the 24-hour shopping centre risks being temporarily closed. The centre, which sees up to 10,000 shoppers daily, has expanded certain areas in its premises...
he Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) is getting a court injunction against Mustafa Centre to close part of its building for breaching safety violations. According to SCDF, these include "serious episodes of overcrowding". A pre-trial conference was held on Tuesday, and the case will be heard again next Wednesday. In January this year, Mustafa centre was fined S$17,000 for two charges of fire safety...
What a difference two new MRT stations make. For commuters getting off at City Hall station, their long and winding walk to Suntec City, Marina Square and Millenia Walk will soon be over. The new Esplanade and Promenade MRT stations are at these malls' doorsteps. These stations are among the 11 on the Circle Line that will open on April 17. 'It's a 10-minute walk now from the nearest MRT station at...
DELAYS to the planned Kallang Sports Hub have left some stores in a nearby shopping mall languishing. Operators of some of the smaller stores in Leisure Park Kallang, a six-storey, 200,000 sq ft mall with about 100 tenants, say the lack of walk-in traffic has left them struggling to make ends meet, even as anchor tenants like an ice-skating rink, bowling alley and movie theatre continue to pack crowds...
RETAIL rents in the prime Orchard and Scotts roads belt, other city areas and the suburbs were all unchanged in the first quarter of this year, according to DTZ Research. They are still down as much as 10 per cent in some areas from their Q3 2008 peaks, but have now stabilised across the island, DTZ's data show. In Q1, the gross rent for prime first and upper-storey retail space in the Orchard and Scotts...
Owner in talks with landlords; group also updating product range THE well-loved Robinsons department stores could soon be in Singapore's heartland malls. The brand's owner Al-Futtaim Group is in talks with landlords here to take up space at one of Singapore's many suburban malls, Robinsons chairman Jim McCallum said. He also added that Dubai-based Al-Futtaim Group will spend around $16 million this year...