Katong Park Hotel

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Katong Park Hotel was a hotel on the corner of Meyer Road and Arthur Road in Singapore. Opened as the Embassy Hotel in 1953, it was the "biggest" hotel in Malaya to have been opened following the end of World War II at the time. The hotel closed in the middle of 1960 and reopened as the Hotel Ambassador later that year under new management. It was again sold to new owners in 1982, after which it was renamed the Duke Hotel. After an unsuccessful attempt to sell the property in 1990, then-owner Teo Lay See sold the hotel to the Chui family of Malacca in 1992, when it was renamed the Katong Park Hotel. There were initially plans to demolish the hotel and replace it with another larger, four-star hotel before it was again sold. In 1999, the hotel was sold off to First Capital Corporation, which closed it down for good and subsequently demolished the hotel building, which then made way for a