Bedok Mall is a suburban shopping mall in

Bedok Bedok () is a planning area and matured residential town located in the geographical region of Tanah Merah along the south-eastern coast of the East Region of Singapore. Bedok is bounded by five other planning areas: Paya Lebar to the north, ...

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and part of a mixed development compromising of retail and residential development that is integrated with a

bus interchange A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city bus, city or intercity bus, intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. While the term bus depot can also be used to refer to a bus station, it generally refers to a bus ga ...

. It was the first major shopping mall to open in Bedok and was built on the site of the former Bedok bus interchange. The mall is linked to

Bedok MRT station Bedok MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West Line in Bedok, Singapore. Located at the town centre of Bedok, this station is built on a traffic island in the middle of New Upper Changi Road. It is one ...

through a link at Basement 2, and the bus interchange which is right above the mall at Level 2. It is also located next to the Bedok Interchange Hawker Centre.

History

The

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announced in 2009 that the former Bedok Bus Interchange will be redeveloped into an integrated transport hub comprising an air-conditioned bus interchange, a retail mall and a residential complex. To facilitate construction works for the integrated hub, Bedok Bus Interchange was moved to a temporary site next to its original location in late 2011. At the same time, CapitaLand, the developer of the site, launched Bedok Mall and Bedok Residences as an integrated development. Originally slated to be completed in 2014, Capitaland announced that Bedok Mall would open in late 2013, six months earlier than expected. It also announced that the mall had secured anchor tenants FairPrice Finest, Best Denki and Uniqlo. Bedok Mall was opened on 3 December 2013, with 80% of the shops opened. On 30 November 2014, the air-conditioned Bedok Bus Interchange opened and Bedok Residences was completed in June 2015. Located at the town centre of Bedok, the integrated retail and residential development comprises a 3-storey lifestyle and family shopping mall and eight 15-storey residential towers called Bedok Residences.

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* 2013 establishments in Singapore Shopping malls in Singapore Bedok CapitaLand {{singapore-struct-stub

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