The private housing estate Caldecott Hill is situated in the Central Region of Singapore, along Thomson Road. Caldecott MRT station provides service to the estate via the Thomson-East Coast and Circle MRT lines.
Throughout history, radio and television broadcasting had taken place at the location; in 1937, the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation established its facility at Caldecott Hill. Subsequent to Malaya’s independence proclamation in 1957, Radio Malaya shifted its primary studio to Kuala Lumpur, and the premises of Radio Singapura, a newly formed regional station, reverted to broadcasting from the former studio.[1]
1966 saw the relocation of Radio Television Singapore’s television stations to a new $3.6 million facility on Caldecott Hill, subsequent to the proclamation of independence by Singapore.[2] Mediacorp, the present-day state-owned broadcaster and one of RTS’s successors, maintained operations out of Caldecott Hill until 2015. In that year, Mediacorp made the transition to a new corporate campus situated at One-north.[3]
Prior to October 2020, when Mediacorp formally listed the land for sale and hired real estate consultants to market the area consisting of 67 bungalow plots, the Andrew Road campus had been deserted.[4][5] December 2020 saw the sale of the property to Kuok Khoon Hong and his organisation, Perennial Real Estate Holdings, for $280.9 million.[6]