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The Goodwood Park Hotel (Chinese: 良木园酒店) is a heritage hotel in Singapore, situated in a 6-hectare landscaped garden on Scotts Road. It was first built as the club house for the Teutonic Club serving the expatriate German community in Singapore, and later converted into a hotel.
The Goodwood Group put the hotel up for sale in February 1997, with an asking price of $550-600 million, claiming that the hotel "generates a gross operating profit of about $16 million a year." The Straits Times noted that several developers interested in the property "balked" at the "steep" price. [16]
The six-storey luxury Ladyhill Hotel was opened by the Goodwood Group, which was owned by prominent banker and hotelier Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat, in 1968. [1] The hotel was designed by Wee Chwee Heng and built with bricks in a "white-and-brown scheme." Each room featured carpets, wall panelling made of teak, curtains made in America, lamps made ...
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In 1918, after the end of World War One and the defeat of Germany, the British government sold what had been the Teutonia Club by public auction to the Manasseh brothers (Morris, Ezekiel and Ellis), who renamed it Goodwood Hall and converted it into the Goodwood Park Hotel. Manasseh continued to be a third owner until his death. [4] [5] [6]
The Goodwood Motor Circuit, built around a World War II–era Royal Air Force base, hosted motorsports events from 1948 to 1968. Thirty years after competition ended, it began again, and it did so ...
Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat (Chinese: 邱德拔; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khu Tek-poa̍t; pinyin: Qiū Débá; 13 January 1917 – 21 February 2004) was a banker and hotel owner, who, with an estimated fortune of S$4.3 billion (US$3,195,953,500), was the wealthiest man in Singapore at one point.
Charles Henry Gordon Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, 11th Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon, CBE, DL (born 8 January 1955), styled Lord Settrington until 1989 and then Earl of March and Kinrara until 2017, is a British aristocrat and owner of Goodwood Estate in Sussex. [1] [2] He is the founder of the Goodwood Festival of ...