Located along Sengkang West Avenue in Singapore’s … News/260714 ST Seletar Mall completed...Located along Sengkang West Avenue in Singapore’s north-east, the four-storey Seletar

Entry levy on S’pore vehicleswon’t exceed $20: KL official

A NEW mall set to open in Singa-pore’s north-east in Novemberwill house the area’s first cinemaand aims to cater to young fami-lies.

The four-storey Seletar Mall,a joint venture between mediagroup Singapore Press Holdings(SPH) and United Engineers De-velopments, also has two base-ment levels of retail.

A ceremony to mark the com-pletion of construction was heldat the development yesterday.

The mall along Sengkang WestAvenue has a gross floor area of284,000 sq ft and net lettable ar-ea of 188,000 sq ft, and is nowmore than 90 per cent leased.

Major tenants will include Jap-anese casual clothing companyUniqlo, department store BHGand fitness centre Amore Fitness,while FairPrice Finest, Shaw The-atres and Foodfare will be anchortenants.

The mall aims to draw resi-dents from Sengkang, Hougang,Punggol, Seletar and Ang MoKio, who are mainly young cou-ples and parents with young chil-dren, SPH said in a statement yes-terday.

It will feature tuition and learn-

ing centres offering enrichmentcourses ranging from languagesto art and music.

Some of these tenants includeMavis Tutorial Centre, MindStretcher, Vienna Music School,Hi Art, and Han Language Cen-tre.

Popular Bookstore and Mother-care, a newborn and parentingproduct retail specialist, will betenants too.

Parents will also be able toshop for baby necessities and edu-cational toys from Lamkins, 1010Mother and Child Essentials, andBB Spa, while their children en-joy the Hokey Pokey indoor play-ground.

Tenants said they are eager totap a new group of customers inthe area.

“The Seletar Mall houses ourfirst Amore Fitness and BoutiqueSpa outlet in the north-east re-gion,” said Ms Jasmine Teo, thechief operating officer and found-er of Amore Fitness. “It is defi-nitely an added convenience. Ourmembers and all of us at AmoreFitness are very excited.”

Dr Lee Boon Yang, chairmanof SPH, said: “When Seletar Mallopens for business at the end ofthis year, it will cater to theneeds of residents in the vicinityas a family-oriented shoppingmall. We will provide a great re-tail mix and an enjoyable shop-ping experience.”

The media group’s other retailassets are Paragon and The Clem-enti Mall.

JOHOR BARU – Singapore motor-ists driving into Johor will pay nomore than RM50 (S$20), Malay-sia’s Transport Ministry has said.

The cap on the new Vehicle En-try Permit (VEP) charge for Singa-pore-registered vehicles is to en-sure that the levy does not havean adverse impact on tourist ar-rivals, Deputy Transport Minis-ter Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told theNew Straits Times on Thursday.

“The Economic Council willset an amount which is comforta-ble for Singaporeans. Singapore-ans have been enjoying coming toJohor Baru to shop and buy gro-ceries. We don’t want the VEPcharge to hinder them from com-ing to Malaysia,” he said.

Malaysia hopes to decide onthe VEP levy and implement it bythe end of the year, said DatukAbdul Aziz.

The announcement came afterMalaysia’s Sin Chew Daily report-ed on Tuesday that the levy waslikely to be not less than RM50.Mr Abdul Aziz was quoted as say-ing that a fee around that figurewould be reasonable as the Singa-pore dollar is stronger than theMalaysian ringgit.

Malaysia announced on July 16that all non-Malaysian vehiclesentering Johor would be chargedan entry fee, just over two weeksafter Singapore announced that itwould raise foreign VEP feesfrom Aug 1.

Prime Minister Najib Razaksaid the decision came after a re-quest from the state of Johor,which has two land entry points

from Singapore, in Woodlandsand Tuas. Datuk Seri Najib said aportion of the fees collectedwould be channelled to the Johorgovernment.

The VEP was reportedly intro-duced due to the high volume ofSingapore-registered vehiclestravelling to and from Malaysia,the NST reported. The chargewould be levied only on Singa-pore cars for now as Singapore-ans had benefited from the facili-ties in Malaysia over the years,Mr Abdul Aziz told the NST.

Most drivers in Singapore,however, see the levy as atit-for-tat move in response tothe Republic’s decision to raisevehicle entry fees for foreign carsfrom Aug 1. Singapore will in-

crease the fees from $20 to $35 tocurb the growing number of for-eign-registered cars on its roads.

Singapore’s decision had creat-ed an uproar, especially among Jo-hor residents who drive to the Re-public to work and among busi-nesses that regularly send goodsvehicles there.

Malaysia’s move to charge theVEP fee also caused unhappinessamong Singaporean motorists,some of whom said that theywould cut back or consolidatetheir trips to avoid having to paytoo much in entry charges.

Mr Abdul Aziz stressed in theNST report that any decision onthe levy would not be made atthe expense of the Visit MalaysiaYear campaign.

Located along Sengkang West Avenue in Singapore’s north-east, the four-storey Seletar Mall has FairPrice Finest, ShawTheatres and Foodfare as anchor tenants. ST PHOTOS: CHEW SENG KIM

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GREAT RETAIL MIX

When Seletar Mall opens forbusiness at the end of this year,it will cater to the needs ofresidents in the vicinity as afamily-oriented shopping mall.We will provide a great retailmix and an enjoyable shoppingexperience.

– SPH chairman Lee Boon Yang.He was with Sengkang West MPLam Pin Min (left) and Mr NormanIp (right), chairman of CorporateOffice, United Engineers Limited, atthe ceremony to mark thecompletion of construction forSeletar Mall yesterday.

Malaysia plans to implement the vehicle entry levy by the end of the year, saidDeputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi. ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN

Family-oriented mall in north-eastwill have first cinema in the area

Seletar Mallcompleted, set toopen in November

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