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In 2013, HDB announced plans for a housing estate at the site of the former
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was officially opened in 1908. Later on, the Muslim, Hindu and
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Bidadari Park will be an upcoming 10-hectare park located in the heart of the estate. Features of the park includes a lake, The Alkaff Lake and a heritage walk which replaces the former Upper
Aljunied Road that has been expunged after the
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in the mid-1860s. He gave it to his second wife, a Danish woman
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