Channel NewsAsia - Sunday, April
13
SINGAPORE: The market and hawker centre at Block 159 Mei Chin
Road will be closed for upgrading from May to the second quarter of
2009.
This makeover comes under the National Environment Agency’s
(NEA) Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme (HUP).
The S$4 million upgrading programme will make the two—storey
market and hawker centre more accessible for the elderly and
handicapped.
The centre will feature improved facilities like lifts and
ramps. Its layout will also be reconfigured so that seating
capacity can be increased.
New mechanical exhaust systems will be added to improve the
centre’s overall ventilation.
Most stallholders have chosen to take a break during this
upgrading period, with less than 10 percent of them operating at
stalls provided at other hawker centres.
The NEA manages 112 markets and food centres, out of which 62
have been upgraded.
Two centres at the Geylang Serai Market and Block 335 Smith
Street are currently being upgraded. — CNA/so