# Ascott's lyf Chinatown 90-key property debuts in shophouses, offers community experiences

- **Source:** EdgeProp Singapore
- **Published:** 2026-07-17T00:10:32.000Z
- **Author:** Edgeprop Singapore
- **Original:** https://www.edgeprop.sg/living/discover/ascotts-lyf-chinatown-90-key-property-debuts-shophouses-offers-community-experiences
- **Topics:** Commercial & Industrial, Government & Policy, Investment & Capital Markets

## Featured rationale

The opening expands Singapore's experience-led accommodation supply and signals hospitality confidence in culturally distinctive conserved properties that may attract neighbourhood-focused travellers.

## AI summary

Ascott opened the 90-key lyf Chinatown Singapore on Mosque Street, with its first guests arriving on July 3 at the conserved-shophouse property.

## Original article

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Hospitality company The Ascott, a business unit of CapitaLand Investment, has opened its fifth lyf-branded social living property in Singapore.

Located on Mosque Street, the 90-key lyf Chinatown Singapore is housed within a row of conserved shophouses and a new build.

It welcomed its first guests on July 3, and is curating local collaborations, community-led recommendations and cultural touchpoints across the five senses.

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A rotating line-up of programmes is intended to keep guests connected to the neighbourhood’s culture and character. They include a 1.5-hour guided heritage walk, exclusive to guests.

Community experiences are also developed with local partners, from traditional Chinese calligraphy and henna artistry to Muslim-friendly perfumery workshops and local delicacies.

It aims to “honour the area’s heritage and its long-standing ties to the Chulia community while delivering lyf’s signature experience-led social living”, Ascott said in a July 15 press release.

The property also showcases commissioned artworks inspired by the journeys of early Chulia traders and collaborations with surrounding businesses, as well as bespoke design motifs.

Each commissioned piece offers its own take on the neighbourhood. Familiar icons appear throughout: historic shophouses, lanterns and the koi fish.

A recurring motif is the Queen’s Crepe Myrtle flower, which is native to South India’s Coromandel Coast, where Chulia traders began their voyages to Singapore.

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“Every lyf property is shaped by its neighbourhood, and lyf Chinatown Singapore is no exception,” said Genevieve Khua, country director, revenue management and area manager for lyf and The Unlimited Collection at Ascott, Singapore.

“Located in the heart of one of Singapore’s most storied and dynamic districts, the property offers guests an authentic gateway to local culture, heritage and community,” she added.

## Chinese translation

> Translation model: grok

### 雅诗阁 lyf 牛车水 90 间客房项目于店屋亮相，提供社群体验

宾客可参加导览式遗产徒步，以及中文书法、印度手绘与调香等工坊

凯德投资旗下酒店业务单位雅诗阁（The Ascott）在新加坡开设其第五间 lyf 品牌社交居住物业。

位于Mosque Street 的 90 间客房 lyf Chinatown Singapore，坐落于一排受保护店屋与新建建筑之中。

该物业于7月3日迎来首批宾客，并围绕五感策划本地合作、社群推荐与文化触点。

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轮换式活动旨在让宾客与社区文化与特色保持连接，包括仅对宾客开放的1.5小时导览式遗产徒步。

社群体验亦与本地伙伴共同开发，从传统中文书法、印度手绘（henna）到穆斯林友好的调香工坊与本地美食。

雅诗阁在7月15日新闻稿中表示，项目旨在“致敬该区遗产及其与朱利亚（Chulia）社群的悠久联系，同时呈现 lyf 标志性的体验式社交居住”。

物业亦展示受早期朱利亚商人旅程启发的委托艺术作品、与周边商家的合作，以及定制设计母题。

每一件委托作品都对该社区有各自解读。熟悉的符号贯穿其中：历史店屋、灯笼与锦鲤。

反复出现的母题是皇后紫薇花，原产于南印度科罗曼德海岸——朱利亚商人由此启程前往新加坡。

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“每一处 lyf 物业都由其所在社区塑造，lyf Chinatown Singapore 也不例外，”雅诗阁新加坡 lyf 与 The Unlimited Collection 国家总监（营收管理）兼区域经理 Genevieve Khua 说。

“坐落在新加坡最具故事与活力的区域之一的核心，该物业为宾客提供通往本地文化、遗产与社群的真实入口，”她补充道。