High rise flat only starts to emerge from the 1950s, Upper Pickering Street Flats was many of them built by SIT (Singapore Improvement Trust) and the flats later know as suicide flats cause many of them choose to end their life there, sadly by 2005 the blocks of flats were demolished and it being replaced by Hotel development for the Park Hotel Collection.
On the other hand, the Ellenborough Market was established during the 1800s, known as Pasar Baru or New Market and the Teochew community called them Teochew Market it also faced with the fate of being demolished and in its place with a Hotel too and a shopping mall and residences called The Central Singapore in downtown Clarke Quay.
