Some Westies may still be unfamiliar with NEWest, an integrated residential and retail development in the West side of Singapore.
There, you can find an eclectic mix of shops with F&Bs (many indie brands) such as Simple Cafe 簡單, Petite House, Big Big Fries, Pizza Arc, Hakata Japanese Restaurant, Bird Folks, Igokochi Dining Bar, Lazy Lizard, Lotus Garden Restaurant, Kim Eng Chicken Rice, Los Jefes Tacqueria and Springleaf Prata Place.
Up In Smoke is opened by sister cafe Burnt Cones at Sunset Way, another popular hangout place in the west for cafe hoppers recently, populated by gelato shops including Dawn’s Gelateria and Hundred Acre Creamery.
Many people are upset by the recent rumors of an affordable housing complex specifically for artists proposed next to the Stanley Theater in Utica.
An organization known as Artspace, which is involved in a number of projects across the state, has presented a vision to build a 40 unit apartment complex to be completed by 2023 for a cost of $12.5 Million.
According to the Artspace website,
Now in predevelopment, Artspace Utica will be a catalytic project to address critical affordable housing and economic development opportunities for the creative workforce, constructed on a lot at the intersection of the Commercial and Arts & Cultural Districts downtown.