Niche property developer Hiap Hoe, and owner and manager of leisure and commercial properties SuperBowl Holdings, have through their 50-50 joint venture company, HH Properties, appointed Wyndham Hotel Management, Inc., to operate the two hotels located on the JV’s Balestier site. Wyndham Hotel Management is part of the Wyndham Hotel Group, which is the world’s largest hotel company with more than 7,000 hotels and 11 brands.

The site, which was designated for hotel and commercial / residential development, was awarded to the JV in August 2008. Located just opposite the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, it has a land area of about 190,000 sq ft and a gross permissible floor area of about 421,000 sq ft. The JV has opted to build two hotel-cum-commercial developments on the site. These two hotels will flank Zhongshan Park, creating a unique integrated hotel-park development with a strong heritage and cultural flavour.

The hotels will be operated under the Ramada and Days Inn brands. The Ramada Singapore at Zhongshan Park will have approximately 390 rooms, together with a full service restaurant, fitness centre, swimming pool, business centre and more than 6,400 sq ft of meeting space. It will also be linked to an adjacent office block to be developed concurrently.

The Days Hotel Singapore at Zhongshan Park will house about 405 rooms and will have amenities such as a full service restaurant and fitness centre. Both hotels are expected to be open for business in 2014.