SkyscraperCity Forum banner
Status
Not open for further replies.

[COMPLETED] St. Regis Hotel and Residences | 3 x 20 floors

41K views 263 replies 54 participants last post by  Vrooms 
#1 ·
St Regis Singapore is expected to be built by 2007; it will be the 'poshest hotel' here and will have 30 suites among its nearly 300 rooms

By Alexis Hooi And Benjamin Ho

A NEW $780 million hotel expected to be built in Tanglin Road by 2007 aims to be Singapore's poshest.

Just up the road from the Tanglin Shopping Centre, the 299-room St Regis Singapore will be one of the area's largest developments in recent years, and the first major hotel since The Fullerton opened in December 2000.

The St Regis Singapore will be Singapore's most luxurious hotel, and targeted at the very well-heeled, said Mr Gerry de Silva, spokesman for Hong Leong, a partner in the project.

The development, three 20-storey towers on 180,000 sq ft of prime land, will include 170 apartments and 130 service apartments.

It nestles next to the 441-room Regent Singapore, close to the 546-room Traders Hotel in Cuscaden Road, at the start of the Orchard Road hotel belt.

Only the third hotel in Asia to bear the nearly century-old St Regis name, the newcomer will be just the 12th St Regis in the world. The flagship, on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, opened in 1904. The St Regis Singapore will boast 30 suites among its nearly 300 rooms, an unusually high suite-to-room ratio.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, which runs the Westin and Sheraton chains, as well as the trendy W hotels, manages the St Regis brand.

Single rooms in St Regis hotels start at US$655 (S$1,126) in New York and US$245 in Beijing, said Mr de Silva.

Singapore's St Regis will have a spa, four food and beverage outlets and retail shops. But no office space or major retail outlets are planned.

The project's partners, who all hold equal stakes, are:


City Developments, or CDL, which controls the London-listed corporation Millennium & Copthorne Hotels that owns The Plaza New York and the Seoul Hilton, among others;

Hong Leong Holdings, which like CDL is part of the Hong Leong Group headed by property and hotel magnate Kwek Leng Beng; and

Trade Industrial Development, or TID, a joint venture between Mitsui Fudosan and Hong Leong Holdings.

Work is due to start in the second half of next year. Construction is expected to cost up to $400 million. The announcement comes at a time when the hotel industry is still recovering from the business slump and the Sars outbreak that devastated it in April and May.

A Singapore Tourism Board spokesman said yesterday that the hotel sector was almost back to pre-Sars levels.

In September, the average occupancy was two percentage points lower than last year's average of 74 per cent. But rates averaged $112 that month, 11 to 12 per cent lower than the overall average last year.

Mr de Silva said: 'We're taking a long-term approach to the hospitality market and we're very bullish in Singapore. This will cater to the high-end market and there'll be a demand for it.'

Said Mr Tay Kah Poh, 46, research director at property consultancy Knight Frank: 'I don't see a glut now and the outlook is really quite positive. Mr Kwek Leng Beng has been looking for a flagship hotel and this might be it.'
 
See less See more
#59 ·
redstone said:
40 floors lor...
What you talking ah?? I am saying how tall can a 20 floor building be lah.....
 
#61 ·
babystan03 said:
I heard in Singapore, only Ritz Carlton is six star.....I guess this will be a fine addition........:lol:
And not Raffles Hotel? That dosent make sence!
 
#64 ·
babystan03 said:
Raffles Hotel is not six star.....but a luxurious boutique hotel.........not sure how they do the "star-ing" though......:?
Is it? How strange....maybe they just dont rate hotels like Raffles which only has suites?
 
#66 ·
Live it up in St Regis with butler on call

16 Jan 05

Condo units may sell beyond $1,800 psf to weed out 'unsuitable' residents

By Tan Hui Yee

SINGAPORE'S richest man, Mr Kwek Leng Beng, recently launched the construction of the six-star St Regis Hotel, which will be completed in 2007.


At your beck and call, a butler awaits to serve those who can afford to live in the St Regis residences. -- STARWOOD

Coming up right next to it, in Cuscaden Road, are 255 homes, on 999-year leasehold, which St Regis promises will have all the perks of the hotel.

This includes access to its much-touted 24-hour butler service, hotel-style room service and cleaning, all at a price of course. Not that price would be high on the minds of these home owners.

The typical St Regis home buyer, said Ms May Wong, the vice-president of residential marketing and sales at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, is someone who doesn't blink when quoted prices like US$1,200 (S$1,956) psf for its recently launched San Francisco residences. He is willing to splurge US$100 a day for cleaning services, and is used to staying in luxury hotels all over the world.

St Regis is one of Starwood's brands. Apart from the Singapore project, the company is also launching or has launched residences with a similar concept in New York, Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, Anguilla, Mexico City and Bali.

Starwood, and its developers - Hong Leong Holdings, City Developments, and Trade and Industrial Development, a joint venture between Hong Leong Holdings and Japan's leading real estate company, Mitsui Fudosan - were tight-lipped about the prices of these homes, but market watchers expect it to be among the highest in Singapore when it is launched in the second half of this year.

Some of the most expensive condominium units in Singapore now can be found in the Ardmore Park, where its apartments are going for $1,400 psf to $1,600 psf.

An executive director of property consultancy Knight Frank, Mr Tay Kah Poh, said: 'My feeling is that Kwek Leng Beng would price it very high, at $1,800 to $2,000 psf and even higher, and he won't be in a hurry to sell it very fast.'

At $1,800 psf, a 2,500 sq ft apartment would cost $4.5 million.

The price, said Mr Tay, was likely to be steep, to 'weed out people who are not supposed to be there in the first place'.

Within Singapore, concierge services similar to what St Regis offers can probably only be found in high-end serviced apartments.

Shangri-La Residences, for example, which is owned and managed by Shangri-La Hotel just nearby in Orange Grove Road, offers its residents services like grocery delivery, catering and baby-sitting from its hotel.

A partially furnished, two-bedroom unit costs $7,200 a month to rent.

Just down the road in Treetops Executive Residences, two-bedroom units go for $8,100 per month. Although it is not linked to a hotel, the staff can also babysit and water plants while tenants are away.

Starwood's Ms Wong expects the bulk of the buyers for two- to four-bedroom homes and penthouses in the St Regis residences here to come from the expatriate community.

Some property analysts agreed.

Knight Frank's Mr Tay reckoned that most Singaporeans were probably too accustomed to having live-in domestic help.

An associate director from Colliers International, Mr Vincent Chong, wondered how affluent Singaporeans would take to the concept of using the services of a hotel butler.

He asked: 'If we are talking about the really rich, wouldn't they prefer to have their own butler?'

Butler service aside, the project can bank on its central location near Tanglin Shopping Centre - and also the brand-name appeal of being run by a luxury hotel chain to pique buyer interest.

The value of condos that are run by hotels tend to hold better in the long run because people feel they are better managed, added Colliers' Mr Chong.
 
#67 · (Edited)
Photographs of the site (19 January 2005):




Anyone now what is this abandonned site just behind with a half demolished building in it ?


You can also see it on this photograph:


There is some incomplete piles on the left side. It doesn't look too good in the backyard of "Singapore's poshest" ^^
 
#71 ·
RafflesCity said:
have you noticed that in many construction sites at the beginning, you always see these piles of big boulders? Any idea what they are for?
Hmm...from what I hear, they are meant to be "melted" or something for the making of concrete or what! :D
 
#73 ·
Pengui said:
Photographs of the site (19 January 2005):




Anyone now what is this abandonned site just behind with a half demolished building in it ?


You can also see it on this photograph:


There is some incomplete piles on the left side. It doesn't look too good in the backyard of "Singapore's poshest" ^^
What the hell is that thing on the right?:?:?:?
 
#74 ·
RafflesCity said:
so you think theyre 'masses' of concrete?

interesting

i thought they might be used to stabilise the holes once theyve been dug out..but i think your version sounds more logical :cheers:
hehe...I used to think they were meant to "stabalise" the ground before too...sort of to prevent future occurances of subsidence? Until I read that its material to be melted or something somewhere...faint recollection!
 
#75 ·
redstone said:
What the hell is that thing on the right?:?:?:?
There are 4 photos...how we know what you refering to?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Top