Gammon Construction
The station was first announced as People's Park station, along with the 16 other NEL stations, on 6 March 1996. The contract for the design and construction of the station — Contract 709 — was awarded to a joint venture between Gammon Construction and Econ Piling (now Econ Corporation Ltd) in June 1997 at the price of S$141.5 million (US$ million).