Jurong Central Park: A great place to enjoy fresh air, fly kites, jog, cycle and play! A great place!
It is the first in Singapore to have a life-sized board game features in a park, which is the life-sized Snakes and Ladders playground and Ludo Garden. They were developed based on the traditional indoor boardgames dedicated for children that is well-liked by many worldwide. Most impressively, players will used the dice tower that were built in the park for their game play. There’s a tower there. But seems to be that this is not like any other ordinary tower. Sure, you can still check the time there if you’re not wearing a watch. But also, it was been structure there as a purpose for the games. Think it was similar like how you throw in the dice, and the player has to move his or her token to the steps as shown on the dice.
It is quite a new place, so there is not much history.
Cross over Boon Lay Way from Boon Lay MRT, Jurong Point and Boon Lay Bud Interchange and you will arrive at the park.
The Frontier Community Club/Jurong West Public Library: A fantastic place to read, do work and homework, play and eat!
A four-storey building that is fully air-conditioned, the Frontier CC is a modern CC that also houses the Jurong West Public Library. For residents’ convenience, the library has integrated their lending facilities to allow residents to read their library books anywhere in the building without checking the books out. Situated within walking distance from Boon Lay MRT station and Jurong Point shopping mall, the CC also has an open area on its 4th storey that is ideal for events. It can take a capacity of up to 180 tables for a sit-down reception. The CC is also co-located with popular Japanese restaurant, Sakae Sushi. It is also quite new so it has not much history.
Jurong Point:
Jurong Point first opened its doors on 5 December 1995 with 95 retailers including Courts, NTUC Fairprice, Kopitiam, Old Chang Kee and Soo Kee Jewellery, all of which were setting up shop within a mall environment for the first time and have not moved out since then. Jurong Point has undergone two expansions. In 1998, an additional 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) of space was successfully secured for the first extension of Jurong Point, which opened on 2 December 2000. Jurong Point was enlarged to 450,000 square feet (42,000 m2) in JP1 during this extension. In 2008, it was further enlarged to 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2), with the addition of JP2, a new wing. After its 2nd expansion, it houses 10 thematic retail zones with additional anchors such as Yue Hua Chinese Products, FairPrice Xtra and Harris Bookstore. With the addition of JP2, parking lots significantly increased from 415 to 1467. Shopping traffic at JP1 and JP2 total up to more than 3 million shoppers a month and crowded every weekend. A condominium, called "The Centris", occupies levels 5 to 16 of JP2. It has a total of 610 units, all of which are fully sold. It has gained its Temporary Occupation Permit(TOP) in July 2009. The old bus interchange has turned into the new extension building of Jurong Point, hence it shares the same postal code as the old bus interchange, Singapore 648881. The new Boon Lay Bus Interchange is fully air-conditioned and has 60 bus bays with escalators linking from JP2 Level 3, near Fairprice Xtra, JP2 Basement 1, beside Stalford Learning Centre, and 3 linkages from JP2 Level 1. It was opened on 27 December 2009. Together with Jurong Point Shopping Mall, the MRT Station and itself, they are part of the Boon Lay Integrated Public Transport Hub.
