The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has closed the public tender for an industrial site at Ubi Avenue 4. The URA had received a successful application for the site to be put up for sale in August and it was launched for public tender on Sept 3. It has a site area of 11,491.5 square metres and a maximum permissible gross plot ratio of 2.5. The site was offered for sale on a 60-year lease and received...
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The URA has closed the tender on a residential site along New Upper Changi Road, with the highest bid coming in at S$84 million from TID. This translates to S$282 per square foot (psf) per plot ratio, said CB Richard Ellis. The 9,875.5 square metre site attracted seven bidders. CB Richard Ellis said the high number of bidders showed that developers still have an appetite for favourable sites even in the...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is reviewing guidelines for restaurants and pubs located in private shophouses near residential areas. It is asking for public feedback on whether entertainment activities should be freely allowed at those premises. For the past 20 years, Lai Fak Nian, managing director of Plum Village Restaurant, has been thinking of various ways to entertain customers and spur...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is calling for tenders for its reserve list site at Serangoon Avenue 3. The 1.3 hectare site has been earmarked for residential development and is in a private residential estate next to the future Lorong Chuan Mass Rapid Transit station. The 99-year leasehold land parcel can generate a maximum permissible gross floor area of about 418,253 square feet. A site on...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released detailed sales conditions for a reserve site at Short Street for hotel development. The site, located within the Bras Basah and Bugis district, is one of two new hotel sites scheduled for release for application under the reserve list of the Government Land Sales programme for the second half this year. Developers interested in purchasing the site can...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched a transitional office site at Mohamed Sultan Road for sale by public tender. The site is one of three commercial parcels to be sold through the confirmed list under the Government Land Sales Programme for the second half of this year. It has a land area of nearly 0.62 hectare and a maximum permissible gross floor area of about 9,200 square metres. A...
The Urban and Redevelopment Authority has won an international award for its master-planning efforts for the Bras Basah-Bugis district. Dubbed as an enclave for arts, culture, learning and entertainment, the 95-hectare district was conferred the Award for Excellence 2008 in Asia Pacific by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) - an international, non-profit education and research institute. The award is widely...
AN EXCITING cluster of shops, homes, entertainment centres, hotel and office space - all set within an attractive garden-like environment in the heart of Singapore’s city centre. This is the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) vision for the 2.7-hectare green field development site, :bordering Ophir and Rochor roads, it is putting out for tender. With analysts forecasting a possible land sales...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched a white site for sale in the Ophir Rochor corridor. The announcement did not come as a surprise, as the government had already indicated it will be sold under the confirmed list of the land sales programme. The 2.7 hectare site is expected to be a mixed use cluster, acting as a connector between the existing financial district and the historical...
The government will release enough land to build about 7,960 private residential units in the second half of this year. The sites will also produce 400,000 square metres of gross floor area of commercial space and 5,750 hotel rooms. The details were released by the Ministry of National Development (MND) on Thursday when it announced the Government Land Sales (GLS) programme for the second half of...