The upcoming Woodlands Regional Centre, which aims to bring jobs closer to homes in the north, will have two distinct precincts. National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed this as he unveiled preliminary plans for the area on Sunday. The plans are part of Singapore's draft masterplan for land use which will be exhibited later this year. The two precincts will be developed from some 100...
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The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released detailed sales conditions for an industrial site at Woodlands Avenue 12. URA said in a statement on Friday that the land parcel is released for sale under the Reserve List of the second half of this 2012's Government Industrial Land Sales programme. The 30-year leasehold plot has a site area of about 3.9 hectares and a maximum permissible gross plot...
There are plans to develop the land around Woodlands MRT station into a regional centre. They are part of the government's strategy to bring jobs closer to homes in Singapore's heartlands. National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has begun to review the development plans for the area. It is part of the current Master Plan review exercise, now that the...
A land parcel at Woodlands Avenue 6/Woodlands Drive 16 for executive condominium (EC) development has attracted a total of five bids at the close of tender. The top bid was jointly placed by Fraser Centrepoint's unit - Opal Star and Lum Chang's Binjai Holdings for about S$150.2 million, or about S$302 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr). According to the Housing and Development Board, the top bid...
The tender by Housing and Development Board for an executive condominium (EC) site at Woodlands Avenue 5 / Woodlands Drive 16 has attracted five bids. The top bid of S$247 million came from Hao Yuan Investment which works out to about S$320 per square foot per plot ratio for the 25,800 square metres site. Hao Yuan Investment bid 3.5 per cent higher than the second bid. The rest of the bids ranged between...
Residents living near Republic Polytechnic in Woodlands could see greater interest in their properties. This is because the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said they plan to build a station there that will integrate the upcoming Thomson Line (TSL) with the proposed Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link. This station will be the northernmost terminal station of the Thomson Line. The LTA also announced plans to...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has awarded the tender for a residential site at Woodlands Avenue 2/Rosewood Drive to joint bidders Fragrance Group and Aspial Corporation. The consortium submitted the highest bid of about S$151.5 million, which translates to around S$3,952 per square metre. The plot has a site area of 27,380 square metres, and a maximum gross floor area of about 38,330 square...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has received three bids for a 99-year residential land site at Woodlands Avenue 2 and Rosewood Drive. The highest bid of S$151.5 million came from a consortium of Fragrance Group and Aspial Corporation. It works out to about S$3,950 per square metre. The next highest bidder was a consortium of Far East Civil Engineering and Sekisui House, which submitted a bid of...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released three residential sites for sale on Tuesday. The two land parcels at Flora Drive and Woodlands Avenue 2 are launched for sale under the Confirmed List of the 1st half 2011 Government Land Sales Programme. Potentially yielding about 380 housing units, the site at Flora Drive is located in a residential estate in Pasir Ris. With a site area of about...
Another four residential sites, which can potentially yield about 1,885 housing units, will be released in April to provide developers and home-buyers with more choices. The Housing & Development Board (HDB) will release a residential site at Sengkang Square/Compassvale Drive for sale on Wednesday under the Reserve List of the Government Land Sales Programme for the first half of this year. It said...