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Jewel Changi Airport tenants are in discussion with Changi Airport Group for assistance over the temporary closure of the mall.
With Jewel Changi Airport, terminals 1 and 3 temporarily closed, tenants at Jewel will receive support, which includes rental assistance, to help them tide over the closure, reported Channel News Asia (CNA).
The closure, which started on 13 May, comes amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases linked to the airport.
“Changi Airport Group is working with tenants in the terminals to minimise the impact of the temporary closure on their staff and operations, including rental waivers for the period of the closure,” it said as quoted by CNA.
“Jewel Changi Airport will also provide support measures including rental assistance to help its tenants during the closure.”
Some tenants revealed that they had been in talks with Jewel Changi Airport for assistance.
Edwin Lim, Director of gelato shop Birds of Paradise, shared that Jewel Changi Airport had been proactively reaching out to tenants to offer rental rebates for the two-week closure period.
The management of Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory, which is currently under communication with Jewel Changi Airport, believe that “they will do what they can to aid us, as well as fellow Jewel tenants”.
“We will continue to maintain an open channel of communication with (them) to seek goodwill assistance,” the management told CNA.
However, Rich & Good Cake Shop told CNA that it has not heard from Jewel Changi Airport.
“We will definitely be severely impacted, as we have staff and a central kitchen to support. Our central kitchen bakes solely to supply our Jewel outlet, and to lose revenue from that outlet due to COVID-19 closures two years in a row is very damaging for our business,” said the company’s Media and Operations Manager Jerelyn Foo.
“We will be opening our other outlet at Kandahar Street on Sundays and public holidays during these two weeks to cater to the demand.”
Cin Yi, Group Marketing Executive at men’s grooming salon Sultans of Shave, noted that business at their Jewel outlet had already been slow during the last few months.
He added that the closure leaves them no choice but to cancel appointments at its Jewel outlet.
“Our staff at Jewel will undergo mandatory swab tests and have been advised to opt in to the vaccination plan for all personnel working in Changi Airport. We have also arranged for the outlet to be cleaned and sanitised more frequently,” he said.
The COVID-19 cluster at Changi airport is currently the largest active cluster in the city-state.
About 20 of the 50 cases registered as of 14 May were “congregated” around one zone, which is the area receiving travellers from higher-risk regions such as South Asia.
“That zone is our equivalent of Ward 9D, like Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH),” said Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung, referring to the second-biggest cluster in Singapore.
“And from that zone, workers go have their lunch, go have their meals at the Terminal 3 Basement 2 commercial areas and the food court, and we suspect from there, it transmitted to members of the public that visited the place,” he added as quoted by CNA.
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Cheryl Chiew, Digital Content Specialist at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact her about this story, email: cheryl@propertyguru.com.sg
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