Jurong Town Hall Road

Jurong Town Hall at 9 Jurong Town Hall Road. The road was named after this building.

Jurong Town Hall Road (Chinese: 裕廊镇大会堂路) is a road in Jurong East, Singapore that connects the Pan Island Expressway and Ayer Rajah Expressway. It was built in 1969 through Jalan Bahru Selatan so that Route 143 could connect to the Jurong Road 10-milestone market. It was named after the Jurong Town Hall, built between May 1971 and March 1974 as the headquarters for the Jurong Town Corporation (now JTC Corporation) which had been formed in June 1968 to develop and manage industrial estates in Jurong.[1]

Currently, Jurong Town Hall and the new headquarters of JTC Corporation, The JTC Summit, have addresses on Jurong Town Hall Road. Chinese Garden MRT Station, JCube and the Science Centre are nearby.

Notes

  1. ↑ Jurong Town Hall to be Singapore's 69th national monument, Channel NewsAsia, 1 June 2015 ; Jurong Town Hall, Preservation of Sites and Monuments, National Heritage Board, 2 June 2015, archived from the original on 14 June 2015 .

Coordinates: 1°19′51.89″N 103°44′27.96″E / 1.3310806°N 103.7411000°E / 1.3310806; 103.7411000


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