Shophouses to become hotel
It will turn the property into the 67-room Santa Grand Hotel East Coast, keeping the conserved Peranakan-themed facade in the process.
Sun, Nov 23, 2008
The Straits Times
By Joyce Teo, Property Reporter
A ROW of nine pre-war shophouses in the Peranakan enclave of Katong are to be converted into a 'character' hotel aimed at leisure and business travellers.
Construction of the $12 million hotel on East Coast Road will start early next year and end in 2010.
Santa United International Holdings, a home-grown firm that started in the petroleum trading business but now boasts a growing hotel arm, will develop the project.
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