Outram Park Complex used to be the site of Outram Prison for more than a century before it was demolished in 1966 to make way for this housing project as part of the Urban Renewal Scheme. It was one of the first complex to have a mixture of residential units and commercial shops in the Central Business District Area. A total of 12 16-storey blocks were all connected to form a shopping complex with 2 multi-storey carparks located at each end of the estate. They were completed between 1968 and 1970 before the-then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew officiated its opening. However, in the late 1990s, the complex was selected under the SERS en-bloc scheme and the residents were being relocated to new flats at Cantonment Towers in Tanjong Pagar. These blocks were painted in shades of rainbow before its demolition in 2003 and the land has been kept vacant since.
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Outram Prison, 1963 |
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Demolition of Outram Prison and Outram Park Complex flats under construction, 1967
Newly-completed 16-storey flats, 1968
A fountain in front of shops at Outram Park Complex |
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Newly-completed 4-room flats, 1970 |
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Outram Park Complex at night, 1970
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew officiating the opening ceremony of Outram Park Complex
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (far right) visiting a household in a flat Outram Park in his overseas visit to SIngapore, 1970
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