At least one business has chosen not to renew its lease at HarbourFront Centre and will move to another location.
New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: Some HarbourFront Centre tenants are uncertain about their future in the building, with proposals for an interim ferry terminal and possible changes in Singapore's cruise infrastructure.
The Straits Times reported earlier this month that the two cruise centres would merge in the coming years, but the Urban Redevelopment Authority clarified that while it isWhen CNA visited HarbourFront Centre last week, several tenants said their main concern was whether any plans for the building would affect their lease.
“When we got the news , we began to look around,” said an employee of a financial services firm located at HarbourFront Centre, who asked that her firm and her name not be published.Real estate developer Mapletree, which owns HarbourFront Centre, said on Monday that the consolidation of cruise infrastructure is still being studied.
The spokesperson added that the building's management has been communicating with its tenants, and will update them if there are"material developments".A director of a law firm which just renewed its three-year lease said the company wanted to remain at HarbourFront Centre, but fears its lease could be disrupted.
A separate firm in HarbourFront Centre confirmed this and showed CNA documents that the landlord just needs to give tenants a six-month notice to cancel their lease. The idea at that time was that future developments would bring in more customers, but it could have the opposite effect if his business had to make way for Southern Waterfront developments.
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