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SuperBowl in final stages of choosing int’l group to manage hotels

SuperBowl Holdings Limited said on Tuesday that it is in the final stages of selecting a project manager for its two hotel developments.

The company said ‘with regard to the integrated hotel/commercial park to be built on Balestier Road / Ah Hood Road, it is in the final stages of selecting an international group to manage the two hotels within the development’.

The project, jointly developed with Hiap Hoe Limited, is slated for completion by 2014.

SuperBowl also reported it has returned to profit for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Net profit stood at S$2.16 million, commpared to a loss of S$807,000 a year ago.

Source : Business Times – 10 Nov 2009

Ogilvy Centre to become a hotel

AN 82-YEAR-OLD colonial office building next to the famous Lau Pa Sat hawker centre has been earmarked as a hotel site and will be sold next year.

The curved four-storey Ogilvy Centre at the junction of Robinson Road and Boon Tat Street has been added to the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) list of government land sites for sale.

The building was given conservation status in 2000, so the developer who buys the site must retain its facade and part of the interior.

Its neo-classical style, with large decorative ionic columns and recessed balconies with cast-iron balustrades, was the design of F.G. Lundon of Swan and Maclaren, the oldest architectural firm in Singapore.

As a hotel, it will be able to host 70 guest rooms, said the URA yesterday.

Property consultants said the hotel could prove to be popular among business travellers, like the luxury 17-room Klapsons, The Boutique Hotel that opened on Hoe Chiang Road this year. Continue reading