Jurong East is a

planning area Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. The evolution of forethought, the capacity to think ahead, is consi ...

and residential town situated in the West Region of

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

. It borders

Jurong West Jurong West is a planning area and residential town located in the West Region of Singapore. Jurong West shares boundaries with Tengah in the north, Jurong East in the east, Boon Lay and Pioneer in the south, and Western Water Catchment in ...

and

Boon Lay Boon Lay (, ta, பூன் லே) is a neighbourhood located in the town of Jurong West in the West Region of Singapore. Its borders very roughly correspond to the URA subzone of Boon Lay Place, situated within the Jurong West Planning Area ...

to the west, Clementi to the east, Tengah and

Bukit Batok Bukit Batok, often abbreviated as Bt Batok, is a planning area and matured residential town located along the eastern boundary of the West Region of Singapore. Bukit Batok statistically ranks in as the 25th largest, the 12th most populous an ...

to the north and Selat Jurong to the south. First developed in the 1970s, it is located approximately west of the Downtown Core district. Jurong East is the 7th most populated planning area in the West Region. Jurong East, along with the entire

Jurong Jurong () is a major geographical region located at the south-westernmost point of the West Region of Singapore. Although mostly vaguely defined, the region's extent roughly covers the planning areas of Jurong East, Jurong West, Boon Lay, a ...

area in general, is envisioned to be the country's second

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

(CBD) as part of the Jurong Lake District project.

History

The development of Jurong started in the 1970s when estates such as

, Taman Jurong,

Bukit Gombak Bukit Gombak is a subzone of Bukit Batok, Singapore. It is a hilly neighbourhood in the west-central area of the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore. In the Malay language, ''bukit'' means hill and ''gombak'' a bunch or collection of somethi ...

Hong Kah Hong Kah is a residential precinct in Jurong West, Singapore. It is bounded by the PIE, Corporation Road, Jurong Canal Drive, Jurong East Avenue 1 and Jurong Town Hall Road. It is named after the former 'Hong Kah Village'. The precinct's HDB fla ...

, Teban Gardens and Yuhua were built, mostly due to the resettlement of Hong Kah (present-day Tengah) and surrounding villages. Yuhua, Teban Gardens,

and

formed Jurong East.

Subzones

There are 10 subzones in Jurong East. * Jurong Port * Penjuru Crescent * Jurong River * Teban Gardens * Lakeside * Jurong Gateway * International Business Park * Toh Guan * Yuhua East * Yuhua West

Politics

The Northern section is under

Jurong GRC The Jurong Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore. The GRC consists of a large section of Jurong, sections of Bukit Batok and areas near Upper Bukit Timah Ro ...

and Southern section under West Coast GRC. After the electoral boundaries were redrawn for the 2011 Singaporean general election, a portion of the

was carved out to form the Yuhua SMC.

Education

There are 3 Primary schools and 4 Secondary schools in Jurong East. * Commonwealth Secondary School *

Crest Secondary School Crest Secondary School is the first Specialised School for Normal Technical (SSNT) students in Singapore. It commenced its first year of operation in January 2013. The school engages the Normal Technical students through a curriculum that largely ...

* Fuhua Primary School (which Pandan Primary School merged into) * Jurong Primary School * Jurongville Secondary School * Shuqun Secondary School * Yuhua Primary School

Recreation

Sports

* Jurong East Sports and Recreation Centre

Leisure

* Jurong Lake Park * Pandan Gardens Park Connector * Jurong Park Connector * Toh Guan Neighbourhood Park * Pandan Gardens Leisure Park * Pandan Reservoir Fitness Corner * Jurong Country Club * Hong Kah East Neighbourhood Park * Yuhua Village Neighbourhood Park *Genting Hotel Jurong

Tourist attractions

There are 3 tourist attractions in Jurong East - *

Science Centre A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in m ...

Snow City Snow City is Singapore's first indoor snow centre located within the Science Centre Singapore area beside the Omni-Theatre in Jurong East. Background The 3,000 sq-metre centre Snow City was built at the cost of S$6 million and was officially ...

Chinese Garden The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate ...

Transport

Roads

Jurong East is connected to the rest of Singapore with the

Pan Island Expressway The Pan Island Expressway (Abbreviated as: PIE) is the oldest and longest expressway in Singapore. It is also Singapore's longest road. The expressway runs from the East Coast Parkway near Changi Airport in the east to Tuas in the west and ha ...

(PIE) and the

Ayer Rajah Expressway The Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) extends from the western end of the Marina Coastal Expressway in the south of Singapore to Tuas in the west near the Tuas Second Link to Malaysia. Together with the Marina Coastal Expressway and the East Coas ...

(AYE). * Jurong Town Hall Road interconnects the two expressways with

, Yuhua, Jurong Regional Centre, International Business Park, Jurong Lake and Teban Gardens. * Toh Guan is connected to the

PIE A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts (pecan pie), brown sugar ( sugar pie), sweete ...

via Toh Guan Road, while Jurong Canal Road provides an alternative at Boon Lay for traffic to (

Tuas Tuas is a planning area located within the West Region of Singapore. It is bounded by the Western Water Catchment to its north, Pioneer to its east and the Straits of Johor to its west. Tuas also shares a maritime boundary with the Western Is ...

) and from ( Changi) the

. * From the AYE, arterial roads Jurong Pier Road, Jurong Port Road and Penjuru Road (along with Minor Arterial road Teban Gardens Crescent) carry the traffic to Jurong River, Penjuru Crescent and Jurong Port. * Boon Lay Way and Jalan Buroh are the two other arterial roads in Jurong East, which provides inter-connectivity across the various subzones in the area.

Public transport

Mass Rapid Transit

Jurong East is served by 2 MRT stations: Jurong East and

Bus

Jurong East Bus Interchange started operations in 1985. It later moved to its first temporary site on 17 December 2011. All the bus services, except 51, 52, 105, 160, 197 & 506 were handed over to Tower Transit Singapore on 12 June 2016. The former temporary interchange will move to another site on 6 December 2020, to make way for the construction of the Jurong Region Line and new transport hub by 2027. All bus services with the exception of service 78, 79, CW3 and CW4 will move there.

Economy

At Jurong Port, Jurong River, Penjuru Crescent, and parts of Toh Guan and Teban Gardens, there is land allocated for business activities.

Jurong Lake District

Consisting of Jurong Lake, Jurong Gateway, International Business Park and the southern section of Toh Guan, the Jurong Lake District is a prime

regional centre A regional centre in the city-state of Singapore is a second-tier commercial zone after the main central business district in the Central Area. About 15 times the size of a normal town centre in Housing Development Board (HDB) towns, they are locat ...

serving as an commercial hub for business developments remote from the Central Area, to meet the various demands of businesses and provide employment opportunities closer to people staying in the West Region of Singapore.

International Business Park

Commercial

=Shopping malls

= Within the boundaries of Jurong Gateway and Toh Guan, there are 4 shopping malls: * IMM *

JCube JCube is a shopping centre located in Jurong East, Singapore. It opens from 10 am to 10 pm and is home to Singapore’s first Olympic-size ice rink and the first IMAX theatre in the suburbs. It was built on the former site of the Jurong Entert ...

* JEM * Westgate

=Town Centre

= The Town Centre of Jurong East is located at Jurong Regional Centre, presently known as Jurong Gateway subzone. *Jurong East Town Centre *Jurong Regional Library Je-town

References

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