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New Airport Terminal by 2017
Tycoon, Offering HK$500m to
Future Son in Law
market with Parkview serviced
apartments in Kuala Lumpur,
which was developed jointly
with Mayland Bhd.
Artist’s impression of Changi Airport’s Terminal 4, which will be ready in 2017
Changi Airport’s Terminal 4 ,which
will be ready in 2017, will cost S$985
million (RM2.5 billion).
“The work being undertaken by
Takenaka Corporation includes
buil ing a new passenger facility to
d
handle up to 16 million travellers a
year and other related works,” Chan i
g
Airport Group said.
T4 will have parking room for 17
narrow-body aircraft and four big
planes. The parking stands will come
with aerobridges for travellers to
move from the terminal straight
to the aircraft. If space runs out,
travellers will be ferried by bus to the
parking area across Airport Boulevard
Road.
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A new multi-storey carpark and
another open-air car park will cater
for up to 1,500 vehicles. There will
also be a double-storey holding area
for taxis waiting to pick up arriving
passengers. To improve access to and
from the new terminal, a new road
will be built to funnel traffic directy
l
from T4 to the East Coast Parkway.
A new bridge across Airport
Boulevard Road will enable buses
and other airside vehicles to move
from T4 to new aircraft stands being
constructed at a land plot near T3.
According to Changi Airport Group,
Takenaka Corporation also built
Changi’s T1 and upgraded T2. It was
one of five firms that had bid for the
project.
Known unofficially as Cecil
Chao Centre, the 1.8 acre
(0.728ha) freehold project will
now comprise four towers
of luxury residences instead
of serviced apartments,
offices and a hotel as planned
previously.
Playboy property magnate Cecil
In 2009, Kuala Lumpur City Hall
Chao of Cheuk Nang (Holdings) Ltd granted development approval
for three 50-storey blocks and
Playboy property magnate Cecil
a 36-storey block of luxury
Chao of Cheuk Nang (Holdings)
residences with a total of 879
Ltd — better known for his
units.
audacious HK$500 million
(RM211.51 million) “prize” that
Units in the three 50-storey
awaits the man who wins his
blocks will range from 600 sq ft
lesbian daughter’s heart — is
to 2,300 sq ft , with preliminary
back in town for business and
prices at RM1,500 psf.
pleasure. He recently attended
the Miss Tourism International
The first phase, comprising two
pageant in Putrajaya, while
50-storey towers, is scheduled
attending meetings for a luxury
to be launched in June, while
residential project in the heart
the third tower will be launched
of the capital.
about six months later.
The project comes eight
years after he began his foray
into Malaysia’s real estate