I would beg to differ, there are really many units with poor facing. Let's see how well the developer would price it.
I agree that 1650 is too much a price to pay for the West. I'm too a west person for the past 20years. And I will add that I do not like it here(will be moving to another part of Singapore in a few years), but to people that have been here for a long time tool, they would agree that the developments in the area have indeed brought much excitement. Maybe to many others JLD seems like a very interesting place, but my personal opinion is that the west would always be the west.
But hey, to the people who genuinely like the west and what JLD has to offer, I think it's their dough and they choose how they wish to spend it. We can all lay shit on the development and claim how lousy the area is. But the fact is that it isn't. I've lived in the age where the west was truly as what people claimed. The smell of cocoa in the air/Jurong island air pollution. Despite that, Everyone here still seems to be doing well.
To the people that truly value the convenience it brings, and to the people that feel there is much potential in the area, they aren't wrong. For people who feel that the 1650 could be put to better use somewhere else, you aren't wrong. But it's where we truly feel it best to put our money. What if in the near future the price has appreciated to 2000psf, I'm sure many people would be shitting bricks upon hearing it, but the fact remains that it isn't impossible.
Probably many people who liked me, have been living here for almost all of their lives, be it upgrades, investors whatsoever. They feel there is potential to this(though there is pretty much potential everywhere else in Singapore), why should others be critical about how their choice. Though we can give our two cents, but ultimately they aren't spending our money? It belongs to them, they have the right to whatever they want, we have the right to say whatever we want to, but perhaps to the people who have much negativity on this development, perhaps we could give the people who wish to purchase it some peace, and congratulate them on a solid investment.
Having said all of that, I'm neither a spokesperson of MCL, nor am I'm vesting in this project. I was merely giving my two cents.