Unlisted Collection Hotels Capture Singapore’s Creative Spirit

[gallery ids="104001,104002,106501,104003,104004,103999,104000,104005,104006,104007,104008,104009"] Founder of the Unlisted Collection hotel group based in Singapore, Loh Lik Peng has been quietly building one of the world's most exciting hotel portfolios over the last 10 years. He's also having a lot of fun doing it, because he knows what it's like not to. During the late 1990s, “Mr. Loh” was a corporate lawyer overseeing the foreclosure of many Singaporean commercial buildings during the Asian financial crisis. It was depressing and demoralizing, day after day, shutting down businesses and boarding up buildings as if they were a growing cancer spreading throughout his city. One day Loh came across a particularly interesting building in Singapore’s red light district in Chinatown. It was surrounded by the city’s famous “shophouses”—narrow heritage homes consisting of a business at street level and domicile above—and nobody wanted it. So he decided to buy it