Chinatown after Six Decades of Redevelopment: What Next for the Shopkeepers?
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📅 When
Wed 18 Nov 2026, 3:00pm
📍 Where
URA White Room
Level 3, The URA Centre (podium block)
💸 Price
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🧭 Getting there
- 🚇 Maxwell MRT, Exit 2 — about 3 min walk
- 🍜 Hawker food nearby: Amoy Street Food Centre (2 min) · Maxwell Food Centre (2 min)
Walking times are estimates from the venue’s location.
Two hours on what comes next for Chinatown's shopkeepers, six decades into redevelopment — URA White Room, 18 Nov.
Chinatown has been rebuilt and reworked for six decades, and the people still running shops there have lived through all of it. This session puts the shopkeepers at the centre of the conversation and asks what the next chapter looks like for them. It is a talk, so expect the subject to be argued rather than toured — the kind of room where heritage, planning and old trades all get weighed against each other.
It runs on Wednesday 18 Nov 2026, 3pm to 5pm, at URA White Room on Level 3 of The URA Centre's podium block. A midweek afternoon slot, so it suits anyone who can step out of the office or build a day around it. If heritage, urban planning or the fate of long-running family businesses in the city is your sort of thing, this sits squarely in your lane.
Details compiled by Onz from public listings — always confirm with the organiser before heading down.
