After three decades or more in the area, residents of older developments like Seasons Park, Castle Green and Far Horizon Gardens had become used to travelling between the more established hubs of Yio Chu Kang and Ang Mo Kio.
In this inaugural edition of Streetscapes, City & Country explores Lentor, an emerging precinct with a new retail mall and at least eight upcoming residential developments
Few would have heard of the Lentor area before August 2021, when the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) MRT Station of the same name opened to the public. Even then, the well-heeled residents in District 26 near Yio Chu Kang Road did not immediately become frequent users of the new train line.
