Commentary
Changi East project offers chance to build vibrant ecosystem centred around airport
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Visitors checking out the indoor waterfall at Jewel Changi Airport, a 10-storey retail complex with passenger check-in services that opened last month.
ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Karamjit Kaur
The decision to build Changi Airport in the 1970s was a game changer which sealed Singapore's status as a key aviation hub in the region, and made the Republic a major centre for aerospace and other aviation-related activities.
More than 40 years later, the plans for Changi East are no less significant and, in fact, more exciting.