Works had begun around the site of the famous colourful blocks of HDB flats around the Bugis area. Rochor Center motorists could no longer the eyecatching landmark while driving along Rochor Road and Ophir Road it was built in the seventies. In 1997 was successfully completed comprising with 4 blocks consisting of 481 units of three-room flats and 91 units of four-room flats than in 2011 it was announced that Rochor Center will be making ways for the construction of the upcoming North-South Corridor. The residents had moved out by end 2016 and demolition works begin in 2018 and by 2019 the 40 years old multi-coloured trademark blocks of flats were gone. I spent most of my working life at Rochor Center from 1986 till 2003 when I was retrenched.
