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by Cheryl Tay
Jurong Gateway’s much-anticipated Westgate shopping mall (pictured) is now 50 percent leased, ahead of its planned opening in December next year.
The mall offers a total of 416,000 sq ft in net lettable area (NLA), mainly targeting middle-income families, professionals, students and commuters. It is part of an integrated development under a joint venture (JV) by CapitaMalls Asia (CMA) Limited, CapitaMall Trust (CMT) and CapitaLand Limited. Meanwhile, the office component, Westgate Tower, has been approximately 50 percent pre-leased to CapitaLand.
Moreover, the development is directly linked to the Jurong East MRT and bus interchanges. Among the tenants that have showed keen interest in the mall are Paul Bakery and Isetan supermarket.
According to Lim Tien Chun, Managing Director at Isetan (Singapore), the supermarket is now “looking forward to the opening of our store at Westgate – our sixth in Singapore. It will be our first store in the west of Singapore and also our first Japanese-style supermarket outside Orchard Road.”
Other tenants also include Food Republic, Paradise Dynasty, Café Crema and Steak & Seafood Robatayaki Buffet. Yamaha will also open a music school at Westgate.
“Westgate will be the catalyst for the transformation of the Jurong Lake District into a key regional hub, the largest outside the Central Business District. We are excited to bring retailers such as Paul Bakery and Isetan Supermarket to Singapore’s West with their first stores outside Singapore’s downtown core,” commented Wee Su Lin, General Manager of Westgate.
Cheryl Tay, Editor of CommericalGuru, wrote this story. To contact her about this or other stories, email cheryltay@propertyguru.com.sg
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