Artist’s impression of the heritage corner in Bedok Town Plaza. (Source: HDB)
Residents in Bedok can look forward to more vibrant social spaces and better connectivity with the completion of Bedok Town Plaza and the recently upgraded pedestrian mall in Bedok Town Centre, which were carried out as part of the HDB’s Remaking Our Heartland programme.
The improvements were launched on Friday (20 May) by National Development Minister Lawrence Wong and local Adviser to Grassroots Organisations Lee Yi Shyan, at the start of HDB Community Week 2016. The annual event aims to create community-centric towns.
As part of refurbishment works, the plaza was integrated with surrounding developments such as Bedok Mall and the integrated transport hub, the hawker centre and the pedestrian mall, which was renovated at a cost of about $3 million.
A heritage corner, tracing the history of the East Coast, is also located within the town plaza.
Bedok Town Plaza is the first of HDB’s new generation town plazas to be completed. The Housing Board is also developing two other town plazas in Punggol and Yishun.
Situated along My Waterway@Punggol, Punggol Town Plaza is expected to be completed in the second half of this year. Yishun Town Plaza, located next to the upcoming Northpoint City mixed-use development, is likely to be ready in 2018.
In its fifth year, the HDB Community Week will run until 29 May.
Romesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, wrote this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
