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First air-conditioned wet market to open at Elias Mall
By Jessica Lim
Singapore's first air-conditioned government wet market will soon open at Elias Mall in Pasir Ris.
-- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
SINGAPORE's first air-conditioned government
wet market will soon open at Elias Mall in Pasir Ris.
The Housing & Development Board (HDB),
which owns the premises that Sheng Siong took over earlier this year, gave the supermarket chain the
green light to air-condition the place on Tuesday.
The chain is rushing to open the 31-stall market by Chinese New Year. It will open from 7am till 10pm daily.
The approval for air-con was given on one condition: that the premises remain a wet market with stalls run by individual stallholders selling a variety of fresh produce. Stallholders must also be allowed to set their own prices.
This comes on the back of months of to-ing and fro-ing between Sheng Siong and the HDB.
The chain took over the untenanted White Sands New Market when it closed in March this year. Since then, the HDB has rejected six of its proposals to operate a supermarket there. Its seventh proposal, which retains the features of a wet market including natural ventilation, was approved on Nov 12. A week later, it requested to install air-conditioning on the premises.
By Jessica Lim
Singapore's first air-conditioned government wet market will soon open at Elias Mall in Pasir Ris.
-- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
SINGAPORE's first air-conditioned government
wet market will soon open at Elias Mall in Pasir Ris.
The Housing & Development Board (HDB),
which owns the premises that Sheng Siong took over earlier this year, gave the supermarket chain the
green light to air-condition the place on Tuesday.
The chain is rushing to open the 31-stall market by Chinese New Year. It will open from 7am till 10pm daily.
The approval for air-con was given on one condition: that the premises remain a wet market with stalls run by individual stallholders selling a variety of fresh produce. Stallholders must also be allowed to set their own prices.
This comes on the back of months of to-ing and fro-ing between Sheng Siong and the HDB.
The chain took over the untenanted White Sands New Market when it closed in March this year. Since then, the HDB has rejected six of its proposals to operate a supermarket there. Its seventh proposal, which retains the features of a wet market including natural ventilation, was approved on Nov 12. A week later, it requested to install air-conditioning on the premises.
