Upper Cross Street

Upper Cross Street is situated in Central Area. It is often a dream of many urbanities of Singapore to own a house in a nature-friendly place where they can get a peace of mind and fresh air to breathe on daily basis. Upper Cross Street is the perfect place where you will see a mixture of urbanised infrastructure with dense trees and many small gardens. It is located near to Park Cres and Havelock Road.

 The coral beauty you find in this place is breath-taking and there are different kinds of trees present here that provides shades to wide roads which makes it look like New-Orleans. This is one of the well-built eco-friendly areas that are filled with small sized gardens and many recreational parks. It is a vast area that is stretched over 4 km in length and breadth with wide roads. People enjoy an ample amount of space to move from one place to another, without any congestion or large traffic. Apart from its green environment, this area is attached to the main highway of Eu Tong Sen St. which provides the residents a direct access to go around the city without any hassle.

Since 1998, there are many residential complexes built in Upper Cross Street. Upper Cross Street has been the most desirable place for people who need all kinds of amenities and modern urban lifestyle in close proximity. As there is hardly any security issue and continuous peaceful environment, this particular HDB estate is getting filled up by the people from other places of Singapore.

In Upper Coast Street, there are around 6 blocks of HDB, spread from pin 50034 to 58354. The blocks are newly built and are under local administration for maintaining throughout the year. This area has a total of 925 HDB units that are advertised for sale and rent. This property was built in 1975 to 1981. HDBs present over here are mainly 3 bedrooms and 5 bedrooms apartments. The USP of the houses are that it has Dutch architecture and electronic tape ware system. All of the houses advertised for sale and rent have large rooms, spacious verandas.

Upper Coast Street is one of those areas that attract local and international tourists to its open gardens, shopping malls and many hangout centres. Due to its close presence to Havelock square and Park Cres, residents of this area get direct communication facilities over here. You will see few central bus stations nearby for transportation to any other part of the city. There are currently four main bus stations present in three blocks i.e.  Block 03, Block 04, Block 05 and the buses that you can access from these mentioned blocks are 5, 8, 15, 16, 21, 21A, 68, 49, 49A,59,60 etc.

There are several MRT stations near to Upper Coast Street at approximate distance of 1 and 1.5 kilometres i.e. Chinatown MRT station, Clarke Quay MRT station and City Hall MRT station. People not only prefer to go via MRT but also through main taxi stands, present in the east bloc. The nearest taxi stand is on the west side of Park Cres and another one is on the east end of Havelock Square.

Well, the transportation facilities are covered. Apart from that, you will also get some of the well- known primary schools and childcare centres in 1 km radius. For your reference, we have listed few of them below-

ChildCare Centres:

• Rosemary Hall Montessori Childcare Robinson
• Learning Vision @ Raffles Place
• Learning Vision @ Raffles Place
• Mulberry Learning Centre @ Tanjong Pagar
• Modern Montessori Spooner Childcare Centre MMI

Primary And Secondary Schools

• Hampton Pre-School, Tanjong Pagar
• The Etiquette School Singapore Pte. Ltd.
• Hampton Pre-School, Tanjong Pagar
• Bukit Ho Swee Primary School
• Zhangde Primary School

Well, these are the educational and childcare centres present in the nearby area. You also get in closer proximity to few exotic restaurants, medium size recreational parks and shopping malls that have bars, bistros, multiplexes for enjoyment.

Recreational Parks:

• People Park Complex
• Alexandra Hill East Neighbourhood Park
• Rumah Tinggi Eco Park
• Bukit Purmei Hillock Park
• Waringin Park Playground

Shopping Malls:

• Far East Square
• Malin textiles
• The Majestic
• 7 eleven

Dine-out Places:

• BAKALAKI Greek Taverna
• Hong Mala Xiang Guo
• KFC
• Whitegrass Restaurant
• Bacchanalia
• Al-Fazl

Upper Coast Road is connected with some of the streets such as Park Crescent and Chin Swee Road.