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The Light City development to start work in Q3

Property News/ 8 January 2019 Leave a comment

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IJM Land Bhd will be building The Light City, a RM4bil integrated mixed-development scheme, in the third quarter of this year.

The project comprises a 1.1 million sq ft retail mall, two international class hotels, a convention centre, office tower, and two condominiums.

IJM Land senior general manager (north) Datuk Toh Chin Leong (pic) told StarBiz that construction work for the project was supposed to start last July.

“We have to redesign the project into two phases because of the soft market.

The first phase of the scheme, now that is broken into two, comprises a retail mall with a 700,000 sq ft gross floor area, an international class hotel, and convention centre, and a condominium project.

“The construction cost for the first phase is estimated to be RM1.5bil.

“As for the second phase, we will study the market conditions first before making a decision, Toh added.

“The second phase comprises a 400,000 sq ft retail mall, an international class hotel, and another condominium project.”

He pointed out that the overall retail mall business in the country was soft.

“In The Light City, the retail mall and hotel business would be back by the convention centre, which is expected to bring in the crowd. The demand for convention centre space is driven by the meeting, incentive, convention, and exhibition market, which is booming in Penang.

“Our location, which is centralised around the airport, free industrial zone, George Town and mainland, will be an added advantage,” he added.

Toh said that IJM Land sales from Penang should contribute about 18% to the group’s sales target for the current financial year ending March 31, 2019.

According to Malaysia Retail Chain Association president Datuk Seri Garry Chua, Malaysia is expected to have close to 700 shopping malls by the end of 2019 with total net lettable area of 170 million sq ft.

There are 560 shopping malls in operation nationwide, while the occupancy for majority of the malls in Klang Valley is between 85% and 87%, Chua added.

Source: TheStar.com.my

 

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  1. dean
    January 8th, 2019 at 11:51 | #1

    Look. The shopping mall no longer the heritage style. Keep drawing new artist impression. Their condo sales must be very bad.

  2. Oh nice
    January 8th, 2019 at 13:24 | #2

    ya agreed, the design all that look very low cost….cheapo light city

  3. Syed Iskandar
    January 9th, 2019 at 03:33 | #3

    Nice to up grade Georgetow.

  4. Wow
    January 11th, 2019 at 00:14 | #4

    Syed Iskandar :
    Nice to up grade Georgetow.

    What is Georgetow ? u mean Char Keow Tow ?

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