A New Look For Yishun

Source : The Straits Times, June 27, 2009

LOOK out for a three-storey lookout tower.

Coming up too are a new shopping complex linked to a condominium, an air-conditioned bus interchange and a remake of Yishun Pond. --PHOTO: HDB

That is one attraction that residents in Yishun can look forward to when the town centre is transformed in the coming years.

Coming up too are a new shopping complex linked to a condominium, an air-conditioned bus interchange and a remake of Yishun Pond.

Yishun is one of three towns selected for rejuvenation under the Housing and Development Board's Remaking Our Heartland initiative. The other two are Punggol and Queenstown.

The HDB shared its plans with reporters on Saturday.

The lookout tower in Yishun Pond, beside the new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, will offer panaromic views of the town centre.

The 12.5m tall tower has a 94m long curving ramp that will take visitors to the top.

Said Ms Nina Yang, senior vice-president at CPG Consultants, the firm in charge of the design: 'The tower is designed according to the theme of nature and the metamorphosis of a butterfly. Similarly, it showcases the metamorphosis of Yishun New Town too.'

The area near the MRT station will have a shopping complex integrated with housing. The retail space is touted to exceed that at the Northpoint Shopping Centre.

A tender for the project is expected to be called in 2011.

Read the full report in The Sunday Times.