The Turf City shopping mall will open its doors in the middle of November 2001 at the 56-ha site of the old Bukit Timah Turf Club. The 760,000sq ft Turf City building was created by linking together the two existing grandstands. (Straits Times 5 Nov 2001)(S12)

  From 28 Sep 2001, the Family and Juvenile Courts, which handle cases involving the family and children, come under one roof at 3, Havelock Road. The Family Court used to operate from an old school building in Paterson Road, and the Juvenile Court, from the Subordinate Courts building in Havelock Road. Straits Times 28 Sep 2001(H4)

  StarEast Club opened its doors on 17 Aug 2001 at the ground floor of Planet Hollywood at Liat Towers in Orchard Road. The 1,600sq ft club, which boasts Hongkong stars like Eric Tsang, Alan Tam and Jackie Chan as backers, aims to cater mainly to Mandarin-oriented yuppies. StarEast Club is at #02-02 Liat Towers and opens from Monday to Saturday from 5pm to 3am. (Straits Times 20 Aug 2001) (L3)

 The NTUC's new home will be a S$400 million glass tower at the junction of Raffles Quay and Marina Boulevard (opposite Fullerton Hotel). The building will be linked underground to Raffles Place MRT Station. Construction is expected to start next year and be completed by 2004. The cost of NTUC's office space will be funded by a grant from the Government and the rest will be borne by the Singapore Labour Foundation, which is chipping in S$150 million. (Straits Times 17 Aug 2001)(H9)

  Eighteen hawkers and 12 restaurants have been selected to bring open-air dining back to Chinatown, after an absence of 20 years. Food Street, a project by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), is likely to open in the last quarter of 2001 and is expected to revive the nightlife there. Now undergoing a S$1 million construction, Food Street will have an outdoor eating area for 300 persons when completed. The hawkers and restaurants were picked out of a total of 175 applications, 134 of which were for the hawker kiosks and 41 for restaurant shop spaces. Among those selected are Ming Fa Noodles, and Tai Tong Restaurant. Tai Tong Restaurant was founded in 1928 and was one of the top Chinese restaurants in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. It will be known as Da Dong Restaurant.(Straits Times 2 Aug 2001)(H3)

  The S$600-million The Esplanade will open its doors on 12 Oct 2002 with a three-week festival of performances. 

  POSB unveiled its supermaket banking service on 26 Jul 2001 with the deployment of ATMs and Cash Deposit Machines at NTUC Fairprice supermarkets in Hougang and Sengkang.

  Malayan Banking Berhad on 27 Jul 2001 unveiled its new S$120-million 32-storey building, Maybank Tower, at No. 2 Battery Road Singapore 049907. It was opened by Deputy Prime Minister LEE Hsien Loong.

  The oldest 100-yen (S$1.47) shop chain in Japan will come to Singapore before the end of the year. Daiso Industries, which runs a wildly successful 2,000-store chain in Japan, has teamed up with Indonesian retailing giant Matahari in its first investment in South-east Asia. Executives are shopping for a 2,800 sqm site, according to Daiso President Hirotake Yano. (Straits Times 26 Jul 2001)(6)

  Tan Tock Seng Hospital opened a 2,500sq ft heritage museum on 25 Jul 2001. the museum is divided into two sections and houses more than 200 pictures, plaques and medical instruments. It is located next to Food Junction food court on Level 1.

  Embargo - the Modern Waterfront Tapas Bar - opens at One Fullerton in August 2001.