The Singapore Sports Hub's retail mall has been named the Kallang Wave. According to its mall manager SMRT Alpha at a media preview on Wednesday, the mall will open from June. Spread over 41,000 square metres, Kallang Wave will boast the tallest indoor climbing wall in Singapore and the first sports-themed hypermarket. The mall is part of the S$1.33-billion Singapore Sports Hub, and SMRT Alpha...
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Changes could be in store for the Kallang area's landscape, with the expected completion of Singapore Sports Hub in April 2014. Analysts believe this could be reflected in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Masterplan, which is due to be updated this year. They said the needs of the Kallang area could change, with the Sports Hub attracting more people and vehicles. Some analysts said zoning of...
The Singapore Sports Hub has appointed SMRT Alpha to lease and operate 41,000 square metres of commercial retail space at the Singapore Sports Hub. This new joint venture is a partnership between subsidiaries of SMRT and NTUC FairPrice. The retail mall and waterfront area will feature a variety of indoor and alfresco food and beverage outlets. For shoppers, the mall will offer a wide range of stores and...
There will be more sports-related developments around the upcoming Sports Hub. This was revealed to the media in a briefing by the Singapore Sports Council on Vision 2030. The initiative was announced recently to develop sports from the ground up, with the aim of getting the public involved. The council said feedback has been collated into three main thrusts - using sports to be future ready, as a means...
The S$1.33 billion Singapore Sports Hub is scheduled to open by April 2014, according to Chan Chun Sing, Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports. “In this private-public partnership programme, we want to get the downstream things like maintenance all integrated to the planning and development of the project right upfront,” he said. “I’m very happy today to see that all three...
One of its main attractions was supposed to be a white-water rafting course but, as plans developed, the consortium awarded the tender to build and operate Singapore's new Sports Hub decided the proposed watersports centre at Kallang would do without it, at least initially. The plan is to build the white-water rafting course a few years after the Sports Hub opens its doors in April 2014 by tapping on the...
PEN was put to paper yesterday on the contract that will pave the way for the construction of the Sports Hub. Demolition of the National Stadium will begin by October, with the new 35ha facility catering to both sports and non-sports enthusiasts to open its doors by April 2014, the Singapore Sports Council said in a press statement early this morning. The centrepiece remains a new 55,000-seater stadium...
Iran's 3-1 win over Singapore in January this year in a qualifier for the 2011 Asian Cup was the last football match at the National Stadium. Three years after its official closing ceremony, work has finally begun to prepare the Grand Old Dame for demolition, making way for the $1.87-billion Sports Hub. The pitch where football stars from here and all over the world played on has already been pulled out,...
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...
CONSTRUCTION of the much-postponed Sports Hub is still on track to begin in the middle of this year, Mr Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, said yesterday. The entire complex should be up and running by the end of 2013 or early 2014, which is in line with the new target date set last November. The Sports Hub, a $1.87 billion...