Daily Archives: 6 Nov 2009

Thomson commercial unit for sale

Space may be used for F&B, entertainment outlets or divided into small units

A FREEHOLD commercial unit at Thomson Imperial Court on Upper Thomson Road has been put up for sale by tender. The unit has a strata floor area of 11,011 square feet and faces the road.

DTZ, which is handling the sale, describes the property as a ‘rarely available large retail space’ in a ‘bank’s sale by tender’ notice. Other units in the area are as small as a few hundred square feet, said the firm’s senior director for investment advisory services, Shaun Poh.

The buyer of the unit can set up an entertainment or food and beverage outlet, he said. Or the space can be segmented into smaller units for lease.

Mr Poh reckons that the unit could attract bids of $8-9 million. This would translate to $727-817 per sq ft.

Smaller units at Thomson Imperial Court have changed hands in the past six months for about $1,200 to $1,300 psf, he said.

The unit up for sale is currently leased to Shop N Save supermarket, which pays rental of about $3.50 psf per month. The tenancy expires in the third quarter of next year.

Thomson Imperial Court is next to Sin Ming Plaza and Thomson Community Club. It is also near Marymount MRT station and has plenty of parking space, DTZ said.

The tender closes on Dec 3.

Source : Business Times – 6 Nov 2009

Genting to open Sentosa Resort by early January 2010


Picture 1 – Genting’s chairman Lim Kok Thay dots the eye of a prancing lion at a ground-breaking ceremony for ‘Resorts World at Sentosa’ on 16 April 2007.

Picture 2 – A monorail train rides through Sentosa’s Resort World in Singapore. The 49-hectare resort is expected to open in early 2010.

Picture 3- An aerial view of the Resort World at Sentosa under development in Singapore on June 25, 2009.

Picture 4 – Workers working on the structure of an amphitheatre, one of the attractions for the Resort World at Sentosa, on June 25, 2009.

Genting Berhad is on track to open the ‘Resorts World at Sentosa’ in Singapore by early January 2010, said its chairman and chief executive Lim Kok Thay.

Bernama news agency quoted Mr Lim as saying the project, which cost S$6.6 billion, would attract 12 to 13 million visitors in the first full year of operation.

“Construction is going on smoothly. We are targeting to open it by early January 2010,” he told reporters after the signing ceremony of its RM1.6 billion medium-term notes programme (MTN) with CIMB Investment Bank Bhd and HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd on Thursday.

Genting’s subsidiary, GB Services Bhd, has priced its inaugural issuance of RM1.45 billion nominal amount of 10-year MTN pursuant to its RM1.6 billion MTN programme.

The MTN programme is guaranteed by Genting and has been assigned ‘AAA’ rating by RAM Ratings Services Bhd. Continue reading