Originally Posted by
Unregistered21
1300-1400psf is very hard to achieve in this Geylang, unless the China men gamblers gamble very big and overnight make a lot of money. The main worry of Dakota is how to clean itself from the dirty image? If you go to Paya Lebar MRT toilet, you'll notice it's the dirtiest toilets ever with the China mei mei all doing their make up there and squatting on the toilet bowl. These China mei mei will most definitely move wholesale to Dakota station and the vicinity when the station is ready since the station is much nearer to Geylang. Imagine your wife or daugter alight at this station. The first thing that comes to people's mind is they are prostitutes. The dirty old men will also loiter there. The environment is just too complicated - not good for a home. Investment wise, the China mei mei and gamblers might give good rental but may disappear overnight if they lose money at casino. The whole Geylang area has already become a mini-China with so many Chinese steamboats around. It would be worse with the IR.
And from what I know, this place got very few parking lots - 1 lot per unit. This is one of those things that will piss off the rich people with many cars. It's meant to attract people WITHOUT cars.