In a joint statement, the Singapore Tourism Board, Urban Redevelopment Authority and National Parks Board (NParks) said new retail concepts, attractions, entertainment and events will be introduced to the Tanglin, Somerset, Orchard and Dhoby
Ghaut sub-precincts to strengthen Orchard Road's position as a lifestyle destination.
Dhoby
Ghaut Station sees an average of 11.5 million passengers a month, explaining why the Tourism Bureau chose that particular spot for its ad touting the slogan 'So Different, So Taiwan!'
In the meantime, Richard Baker, a 54-year-old former police officer from Arlington, Va., sits in Her Majesty's Prison at Balsam
Ghaut as his friends try to raise money to pay his $45,000 fine.
Golden Rock, up in the hills on the edge of the rainforest, has a collection of pastels by the famous painter, the late Dame Eva Wilkin who had her studio at Clay
Ghaut in Gingerland.
Isetan closed its two smaller stores for teenagers and kids: In and Inkids at the Orchard and Dhoby
Ghaut MRT stations in July 1994.
The deeper canyon, below town center, half-shrouded by thickets, coppice & natural contours of hillside, is RUNAWAY
GHAUT.
Out of the 17 projects, five projects were fully completed, namely the Armenian Park and Backlanes (2015), the Esplanade drainage and subsoil improvement project (2016), the restoration of the Fountain Garden (2018) and the China Street
Ghaut streetscape upgrading (2018).
The areas affected were Taman Scotland, Jalan P Ramlee, Jalan Perak Road, Jalan Masjid Negeri, Bayan Baru, Dhoby
Ghaut, Jalan Zoo and Jalan Dato Keramat.
It was then that community-initiated playgrounds began emerging in areas such as People's Park, Dhoby
Ghaut and Katong Park.
'This is so that people can use these spaces, either for cycling, walking or to take a rest,' he said at a press conference after visiting the upgrading works of China Street
Ghaut Streetscape.