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12-539: HarbourFront Bus Interchange is located within HarbourFront along Seah Im Road off Telok Blangah Road in Bukit Merah planning area, Singapore. The interchange serves the nearby residential estates of Telok Blangah and Bukit Purmei and also the HarbourFront commercial district, including HarbourFront Centre and VivoCity . The interchange is directly connected to Seah Im Food Centre and HarbourFront MRT station . It

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36-636: Is a waterfront district situated in southern Singapore . Whilst HarbourFront's boundaries are ambiguous, its location is roughly represented on the URA 's Master Plan as a subzone called Maritime Square , located within the Bukit Merah Planning Area. Main thoroughfares in HarbourFront include Keppel Way and Telok Blangah Road. Notable buildings in the vicinity include HarbourFront Centre , Singapore Cruise Centre , St James Power Station , VivoCity and

48-550: Is also in the works as a new addition to the HarbourFront Office Park. The new site is known as the HarbourFront Merrill Lynch, which is a six-storey building and will be entirely occupied by American bank Merrill Lynch with a total area of 200,000 sq ft (19,000 m ). Another office development is being planned on the site of the current SPI Building . Furthermore, a residential development

60-515: Is possible in the future. The Singapore Cruise Centre would be expanded to accommodate over 6 million passengers by 2010. HarbourFront Centre, Singapore HarbourFront Centre , formerly World Trade Centre , is a shopping mall and ferry terminal in Singapore. The mall is part of a development known as HarbourFront . Plans of building the World Trade Centre was first announced by

72-713: Is the southernmost bus interchange in Singapore. The interchange commenced operations on 13 January 1985 with 5 services and was initially named 'World Trade Centre Bus Terminal' until it was subsequently renamed to its present name in 2003, alongside the renaming of the World Trade Centre to HarbourFront. Under the new bus contracting model , all the bus routes buses were split into 6 route packages - 855, 963 and 963e under Sembawang-Yishun, 188 and 188e under Choa Chu Kang-Bukit Panjang, 124 under Bishan-Toa Payoh, 80 under Sengkang-Hougang, 65 under Tampines, and 93 and 123M under Bukit Merah Bus Packages. This article about

84-479: The Port of Singapore Authority in 1973. It was officially opened in 1977, as well as having a ferry terminal that has traveling routes to nearby Indonesian ports, as well as the city of Batam and Bintan Island , it also featured nearby Expo Gateway and Harbour Pavilion exhibition halls. The World Trade Centre hosted Miss Universe Pageant in 1987 . The World Trade Centre was later renovated from January 2000 with

96-539: The Jardine Steps Tower which hosts the HarbourFront stop of the Singapore Cable Car . Maritime Square is currently being redeveloped into a new business and lifestyle hub. The area was originally known as Seah Im but was also referred to as Jardine Steps. After the Port of Singapore expanded, it was developed into Maritime Square and later renamed as HarbourFront. The present-day appellation, HarbourFront,

108-490: The World Trade Centre Exhibition Complex, was subsequently built beside the World Trade Centre, and also served as a transport node with ferries to Sentosa and other regional destinations such as Batam . The Singapore Cruise Centre opened in 1991 in HarbourFront as the country's first international cruise terminal. Massive redevelopment in the area after the closure of the shipyard subsequently led to

120-668: The construction of two new office blocks adjacent to it. Transportation into the area was vastly improved with the opening of the HarbourFront MRT station and extension of the HarbourFront Bus Interchange . Also, the new monorail link to Sentosa, the Sentosa Express has been completed and opened on 15 January 2007. The HarbourFront station of the Circle line had opened on 8 October 2011. A new six-storey office building

132-477: The name HarbourFront being coined in the early 2000s to refer to the immediate vicinity of the World Trade Centre, which was in the midst of a major refurbishment project. Relaunched as HarbourFront Centre , the former World Trade Centre also has its neighbouring Exhibition Complex demolished to make way for VivoCity , the upgrading of the Cable Car Towers (old Jardine Steps Station on top the old PSA Tower) and

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144-530: Was coined in the 2000s to give the area a more upmarket feel. HarbourFront was once close to the southernmost point of the main island of Singapore, until land reclamation in Tanjong Pagar and Tuas . Its location in the sheltered waters of Keppel Harbour helped the area to thrive as a commercial area adjacent to Keppel Shipyards , particularly with the building of the former World Trade Centre in 1978. Singapore's first major Exhibitions and Conventions venue,

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