Interview with Tan Yew Chin, Chief Executive Officer, Ascendas
As a pioneering member of Arcasia, before it merged with JTC International and became what is Ascendas today, you know the history of the company very intimately. What are the…
Address: 61 Science Park Road, #04-01 The Galen.Singapore Science Park II, Singapore 117525,Singapore
Tel: +65 6774 1033
Web: http://www.ascendas.com/english/
Ascendas is Asia’s leading provider of business space solutions with more than 30 years of experience across the region. Based in Singapore, Ascendas has built a strong regional presence and serves a global clientele of over 2,400 customers in 33 cities across 10 countries including Singapore, China, India, South Korea and Australia.
Ascendas specializes in masterplanning, developing, managing and marketing IT parks, industrial & logistics parks, business parks, science parks, hi-tech facilities, office and retail space for a host of industries. Leveraging on its track record and experience, Ascendas has introduced new business space concepts such as integrated communities and solutions which seamlessly combine high-quality business, lifestyle, retail and hotel spaces to create conducive human-centric work-live-play-learn environments. Its flagship projects include the Singapore Science Park, International Tech Park Bangalore in India, Dalian-Ascendas IT Park in China and Carmelray Industrial Park II in the Philippines.
Asia’s leading provider of business space solutions. The company provides end-to-end real estate solutions, assisting corporate customers through the entire real estate process.
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