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...
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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...
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...
Kallang and Paya Lebar will be developed into new commercial hubs, just like the Jurong Lake District. This is part of the government's Draft Master Plan, which charts land use over the next 10 to 15 years. Marina Bay and the city centre will continue to be the key commercial node in Singapore. New growth areas like Tanjong Pagar, Beach Road and the Ophir-Rochor corridor will also be developed. However,...