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In Franklin and Jackson's 1830 map of Singapore, the Tuas area is marked with three different names Tg Kampong, Tg Rawa and Tg Gull. Tg is the abbreviation for tanjung or tanjong (Malay for cape). [3] Tuas used to be swampland which was later cleared for squatter settlement. By the mid twentieth century, it became a fishing village.
About 60% of property buyers in Sentosa Cove are foreigners. [2] It is the only place in Singapore where foreigners are allowed to purchase landed homes. All residential properties in Sentosa Cove are leasehold titles subject to a 99-year lease .
Yew Tee became a household name with the construction of the Yew Tee MRT station which is located where the village used to be, near Stagmont Ring. [ 3 ] The Yew Tee Community Centre, set up in 1963 and one of Singapore's oldest community centres, closed down in 1998.
Marine Parade, as it is known today, mainly consists of HDB (Housing Development Board) flats along the southernmost points of the estate. These were built in the 1970s after the reclamation of the island's east coast. Today, many private condominiums are also being built in the area.
One project completed in Marina Centre is the Marina Bay Financial Centre, which includes 3 office towers offering 280,000 square metres (3,000,000 sq ft) of office space, 2 residential developments offering 649 apartments and a 16,400-square-metre (176,000 sq ft) retail mall, named Marina Bay Link Mall. [6]
Flanked on the south side by the Pandan Reservoir, the east side by the bank of Sungei Pandan and situated at the fringe of Jurong Industrial Estate, Teban Gardens sits on the crossroad from Singapore's city center and other parts of the island towards the various industrial estates located within Jurong, Tuas as well as the nearby Jurong Island
Pandan Gardens is a housing estate which is part of Jurong East New Town in the West Region of Singapore. Immediately north of Pandan Reservoir and adjacent to Teban Gardens, it comprises exclusively public housing built by the JTC Corporation and Housing and Development Board.
For the economy, Marina Bay Sands was projected to stimulate an addition of $2.7 billion or 0.8% to Singapore's Gross Domestic Product by 2015, employing 10,000 people directly and 20,000 jobs being created in other industries. [16] On 3 April 2019, Sands announced a $3.3 billion expansion of its Marina Bay Sands property in Singapore.