About Jurong Gateway
Consisting of two complementary precincts – Jurong Gateway and Lakeside, Jurong Lake District is envisioned by the URA planners to be a unique business and leisure destination.
Attractive business address
The 70 ha Jurong Gateway around Jurong MRT station will be the biggest commercial hub with a unique lakeside setting outside the city, providing 500,000 sqm of office space. It will have a good mix of office, retail, hotel, entertainment, food & beverage (F&B) and other complementary uses. To add vitality and enable people to live and work in the area, 1,000 or more homes will be introduced around Jurong East MRT station.
With its close proximity to the International Business Park, industrial estates and research and educational institutions, Jurong Gateway offers a highly attractive location outside the Central Business District for company headquarters, business services as well as companies in the science and technology sectors.
Seamless connections
For a seamless commuter experience, all buildings and public transport facilities in Jurong Gateway will be accessible via a network of walkways at ground level and at the second storey where the MRT concourse is located. These will enable one to walk from place to place in comfort regardless of the weather.
Jurong Gateway will also be connected to Lakeside by a continuous, elevated landscaped deck. This begins at the concourse of Jurong East MRT station and runs all the way to the proposed lakeside village at Jurong Lake.
Lakeside: New waterfront playground
Just around the corner
While the Jurong Lake District may take 10 to 15 years to be fully developed, we need not wait so long to see the transformation. We present to you some of the projects that are already shaping up.
Consisting of two complementary precincts – Jurong Gateway and Lakeside, Jurong Lake District is envisioned by the URA planners to be a unique business and leisure destination.
Attractive business address
The 70 ha Jurong Gateway around Jurong MRT station will be the biggest commercial hub with a unique lakeside setting outside the city, providing 500,000 sqm of office space. It will have a good mix of office, retail, hotel, entertainment, food & beverage (F&B) and other complementary uses. To add vitality and enable people to live and work in the area, 1,000 or more homes will be introduced around Jurong East MRT station.
With its close proximity to the International Business Park, industrial estates and research and educational institutions, Jurong Gateway offers a highly attractive location outside the Central Business District for company headquarters, business services as well as companies in the science and technology sectors.
Seamless connections
For a seamless commuter experience, all buildings and public transport facilities in Jurong Gateway will be accessible via a network of walkways at ground level and at the second storey where the MRT concourse is located. These will enable one to walk from place to place in comfort regardless of the weather.
Jurong Gateway will also be connected to Lakeside by a continuous, elevated landscaped deck. This begins at the concourse of Jurong East MRT station and runs all the way to the proposed lakeside village at Jurong Lake.
Lakeside: New waterfront playground
- Spread over 220 ha of land and 70 ha of water, Lakeside is envisaged to be developed into a major leisure destination for Singaporeans and tourists.
- The first anchor attraction is the new world class Science Centre which will be moved next to the Chinese Garden MRT station. There are plans to accommodate four or five new edutainment attractions targeted at families with young children, in addition to the existing attractions of the Jurong Bird Park, Chinese and Japanese Gardens. The URA will be working with the Singapore Tourism Board to encourage investors to develop appropriate attractions in this area. The attractions could be those with edutainment theme or nature-based attractions leveraging on the lake, or attractions with hotels, F&B and retail uses.
- A new lakeside village will be created next to the Jurong Lake. Just 10 minutes walking distance away from Jurong Gateway, the village offers an alternative shopping and dining experience, with F&B, retail and entertainment uses and boutique hotels by the lakeside. This village will be connected to Jurong Gateway through a network of walkways, making it a natural gathering place for residents, visitors and people working nearby.
- A new public park will be developed at the western edge of Jurong Lake. New water activities like kayaking and dragonboating will also be introduced.
- New waterways and a landscaped walkway will be created to bring the experience of the lake closer to the main commercial hub at Jurong Gateway.
Just around the corner
While the Jurong Lake District may take 10 to 15 years to be fully developed, we need not wait so long to see the transformation. We present to you some of the projects that are already shaping up.
- By 2009, Jurong Lake will be enhanced to facilitate water-based activities such as kayaking and dragon-boating. We will also see new facilities such as a golf resort hotel, hospital, boardwalks and wetlands being developed here.
- A new Big Box development by TT International is currently under construction near the Jurong East MRT Station. This development will be similar to the Warehouse-Retail development cluster at Tampines. When ready by the end of 2009, this Big Box development will add approximately 34,000 sqm of new retail space, similar in size to the Tampines cluster.
- The Jurong Entertainment Centre will also be redeveloped by next year. It will be home to Singapore’s first Olympic-sized ice skating rink.