2016-07-29

Come 2023, a hotel with 400 rooms will be built next to Upper Seletar Reservoir in Mandai area in a bid to up Singapore’s eco-tourism cred . Christened the Eco-Lodge, the full-service hotel will feature the usual drop-off point, lobby and reception, plus facilities for banquets and events, a swimming pool and a spa. These details were reported in Today , which pored through a nearly 400-page environment impact assessment (EIA) report (PDF link) uploaded online for public viewing on Tuesday, July 26. The Eco-Lodge will occupy a plot of land about the size of six football fields, or 4.65ha. Construction work is expected to take four years. The EIA report was commissioned by Mandai Park Holdings (MPH), which manages the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and River Safari in the area. They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and charged the people a dollar and half to se...

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