A residential site at Dakota Crescent will be placed for public tender in about two weeks, following commitment from a developer to bid at least S$130 million for the land parcel. According to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), who made the announcement on Wednesday, the site has an area of about 1.7 hectares and will be able to generate a maximum permissible gross floor area of about 60,164 square...
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The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has decided to keep the existing guidelines where live music and performances are not allowed in restaurants and pubs located in private shophouses near residential estates. URA's decision followed the feedback it received from a public consultation exercise. It launched an online survey in September last year to gather the public's views on the planning guidelines...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched a hotel site at New Bridge Road for sale. Last month, the urban planners received an application from a developer to put the plot on sale. URA says the developer has committed to bid at least S$43,888,888 for the 99-year lease hold site located in Chinatown, near the Outram Park MRT station. The 0.45 hectare site can yield a maximum permissible gross...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will put an industrial site at Kaki Bukit up for sale through a public tender. It says it has accepted an application from a developer who has agreed to bid for the land parcel at or above the minimum acceptable price of S$5 million. The identity of the developer was not revealed. The 1.07 hectare site, located at Kaki Bukit Road 2, has a 30-year lease period. The...
Fragrance Assets, a unit of mainboard-listed Fragrance Group, has put in the top bid of S$15.5 million for a hotel site at Short Street. The Urban Redevelopment Authority said it received a total of 15 bids, ranging from S$8 to S$15.5 million. Other companies that had tendered for the site include Regal Land, Centurion Properties and Sim Lian Land. Property consultancy CBRE said the strong response...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched a site at Woodlands Industrial Park and Woodlands Avenue 4 for sale by public tender. It said a developer has committed to bidding at least S$12.5 million for the land parcel. The parcel has a site area of about 2.5 hectares and a gross plot ratio of 2.5 with a lease period of 60 years. It can be developed for a range of clean, light and general...
The housing saga at The Grangeford condominium continued on Friday. Landlord Ideal Accommodation told tenants they can stay till end-June, so that it does not have to return them their month's deposit. Those who have given more than a month's rent will get back the balance. There was also drama on Friday after some tenants went to Ideal's office demanding a staff accompany them back to The Grangeford to...
Some 300 residents of troubled condominium The Grangeford said owner Cove Developments have no right to evict them since their rental leases were signed with another company. Ideal Accomodation had been contracted to rent out the apartments but Cove said that has since been terminated. The condominium came under the spotlight after the authorities found some 140 apartments converted into 600 units...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released the first sale site at Kallang Riverside for hotel development. The 0.74-hectares land parcel will be made available on the reserve list under the Government Land Sales Programme for the first half of 2009. URA said the plot has a permissible gross floor area of 20,917 square meters with a maximum building height of 16 storeys. The site will have a...
Mainboard-listed OKP Holdings has signed a S$3.4 million contract with Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) for environmental improvement works. The infrastructure and civil engineering firm says the first stage of works will begin on May 22 at Siglap Village and is expected to be completed in January next year. The second stage, covering works at Upper Serangoon Road and along the canal at...