Outside CBD – East & West

The East Coast of Singapore is a popular residential area and there are several important decentralized office locations as well, that will are conveniently close to many homes especially the expatriate community. The major commercial hubs in the East for office space include Paya Lebar, Tampines and Changi Business Park.

In Paya Lebar, the quality office buildings include Paya Lebar Quarter, Paya Lebar Square and Singapore Post Centre. Other buildings include Cisco Centre. This location in popular because it is only 6 stops (18 minutes) on the MRT to Raffles Place and is close to many amenities.

Much further out of town, the biggest decentralized commercial hub is Tampines. Major office buildings in this location include NTUC Tampines Point, NTUC Tampines Junction, Tampines Plazas 1 & 2 and Tampines Concourse. A number of big institutions have their own office buildings including OCBC Bank, AIA Insurance and CPF.

The main business park in this area is Changi Business Park, where there are many high quality B1 commercial buildings located. Many of the banks have their ‘back offices’ here including CITI Bank, DBS Bank. Standard Chartered Bank and JP Morgan.

The West of Singapore has a good mixture / selection of both conventional office space and business park space. The Harbourfront / Alexandra Road area is a very popular location for out / edge of town office space because of easy access to the CBD, the good connectivity and the many amenities in the area. This area also hosts the site Mapletree Business City which is an important location for high-tec firms, such as Google.

In the far West, the most important commercial business hub is Jurong East and close by there is International Business Park, which offers affordable commercial office space for those businesses that qualify. In between, there is One North Business Park in Buona Vista, where The Metropolis is the most import pure office space scheme. The rest of the buildings in the area are all included in either the Biopolis, Fuionopolis and Mediaopolis. All occupiers in this location needs to qualify as Business Park Users (40% pure office 60% norminated use e.g. R & D)