Jurong hotel, Tiong Bahru condo among projects to get URA nod

A 560-ROOM hotel in Jurong Town Hall Road by Resorts World Singapore, an office and retail development in Jurong East by Sim Lian, and a revised development proposal by Keppel Land for its Keppel Towers and GE Tower site in Hoe Chiang Road are among a string of development proposals granted provisional permission by the Urban Redevelopment Authority in the third quarter.

Less than a handful of private residential projects received provisional permission in the July-Sept 2013 period.

Among them was Keppel Land unit Harvestland Development's proposal for a 500-unit condo in Kim Tian Road (near Tiong Bahru MRT Station and Tiong Bahru Plaza). It will be developing the project on a 99-year leasehold site that it clin…