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The Dome – Singapore Sports Hub
The Singapore Government announced on Jan 19 that it has selected the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium (SSHC) led by Dragages Singapore Pte Ltd as the preferred bidder for the Singapore Sports Hub Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) project, subject to finalisation of contract details.
SSHC provided a holistic strategy to promote sports participation, leisure, entertainment and lifestyle activities via a focus on community and grassroots sports. Its integrated approach will create foot traffic and promote vibrancy at the Sports Hub. Their strategy is supported by a comprehensive sporting calendar that guarantees at least 90 event days at the National Stadium and 46 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. It consist of a well-balanced mix of local, regional and international sporting events and activities targeted at various different target segments
SSHC has provided a circular design layout with the various sports and commercial facilities surrounding the dome-shaped new National Stadium. The design is well integrated with the consortium’s events and programming strategy, and has the flexibility and scalability for hosting large-scale events, including the National Day Parade. The Sports Hub’s critical mass of facilities and attractions would ensure that the venue is teeming with activity and buzz on event and non-event days.
The Sports Hub will be Singapore’s premier land and sea sports, entertainment and lifestyle hub with integrated programming. A unique cluster development of integrated world-class sports facilities within the city, it will play a critical role in accelerating the development of sports industry, excellence and participation and take sports to the next level in Singapore.
The Sports Hub is expected to be ready in end 2011 with a total costs the government will pay over the 25-year tenure amounts to S$1.87b.
The Sports Hub is believed to be the first and largest sports facilities infrastructure PPP project in the world and is also Singapore’s largest and flagship PPP project of this nature.
Located on a 35ha site in Kallang, the Sports Hub will include the following facilities:
must put more seats
Could well just be a dream. The project has been delayed till 2013. What a joke.
Ya, agree this will be a dream unless Singapore is bidding for another high profile games, else it will be no way to recover this investment. In case of YOG, Singapore still can get away to swapping the games village from NUS to NTU. I don’t think it will be easy jobs to win another games hosting country anytime soon.
Most likely Sport Hub may be another Punggol 21 vision which announced in 90s but just start work recently.