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Asia City Shopping Mall
Kompleks Asia City

Newly completed. It is situated just across the road to Centre Point Sabah. Besides the usual food and beverage outlets there is a skating rink – KAC Skating Rink located on the fourth floor. It is open for business daily. This is the only mall housing a skating rink.
 

2005

Asia City project to be nucleus for expansion
20 December, 2005

The Asia City Urban Development Project, which currently involves three new commercial complexes including Star City and two 3-Star hotels, is set to become the nucleus for economic and business expansion in the State capital.

Being developed by A.C. Property Development Sdn Bhd in a joint venture with Sedco and SUDC on 24 acres of prime commercial land at Singgah Mata here, the multi-million project comprising two phases is expected to be completed by end of 2007.

It will be another impressive landmark, with a tourism-related and people-friendly concept, in the city centre.

The Phase I development, which was carried out in two stages on 9.8 acres since 1984, comprising 34 units and 54 units of 4 storey shops respectively, was completed in 1993 and 1994.

It included a 70 feet wide open air walkway Plaza Mall which is located between the 9 blocks of shops.

Dr Ting Ing Chew is the Chairman and Managing Director of A.C. Property Development.

Phase II of Asia City development comprising three Phase: 2A, 2B and 2C, respectively, on another 14.2 acres of land.

This includes the construction of Complex Asia City under Phase IIA, a 5-storey commercial complex surrounded by shops/offices at the perimeter, which is expected to be completed by end of 2005.

The centre court of this complex, for which the floor area is 180,000 square feet, will have a shopping arcade and food court.

Its 4th and 5th floors will be used for car parks, with a total of 750 parking bays.

Phase IIB development comprises a 12-storey hotel called Romancia Palace Hotel and a 4-storey commercial complex, Starhill Parade, expected to meet completion by end of 2007.

Romancia Palace is designed as a 3-Star boutique hotel whilst Starhill Parade will be a one-stop shopping centre for designers and branded products. "The banquet hall to be built on the top floor of the complex will be able to accommodate 1,500 guests. Two levels of basement will also be built to provide 300 parking bays," he said.

Phase IIC development will see the construction of Complex Star City, a 9-storey complex located at the superb commercial zone of Kota Kinabalu in between two main roads into and out the city, Jalan Abdul Rahman and Jalan Tun Razak.

It will be interesting because development of this complex, which is currently in progress and has is about 25 per cent complete, will also see a dual carriageway being constructed to link up these two main roads.

Complex Star City, being built on an area behind the Chung Hwa School and fronting Api Api Commercial Centre, has a built up area of over 1.37 million square feet. Some 449,288 square feet of this are meant for sale while the rest are for rental.

About 55 per cent of the overall total saleable area in Star City are already sold out in 2005, selling very well at about RM90 million.

This company will introduce a first of its kind a fully air-conditioned and cleaner wet market, where fish will also be sold. This is expected to be the biggest such outlet in East Malaysia.

Other areas in the shopping arcades are for branded products and fashion, goldsmiths, jewellery, clock and watch shops, pharmacies, shoe shops and the latest fittings, cameras and arts and crafts, food court and eight restaurants each specialising in Japanese, Thailand, Chinese cuisine and so on, snookerium, seven cinemas and a bowling alley of 38 lanes.

Also there will be 1,311 parking bays provided at this one-stop shopping centre.

City Hall (DBKK) has also approved a Link Bridge to be built over and across the dual carriageway to link up the first floor of Phase IIA (Complex Asia City) and Phase IIC (Star City).

The first floor of the Link Bridge will be meant for commercial retail shops and the second floor will be a unique roof-top open air garden of about 40,000 square feet, he said, adding that construction work has started in March this year and expected to be fully completed by end of 2007.

All units will be issued separate Strata Titles of 99 years Town Lease. "The Phase II development of Asia City is a coordination with the government's tourism policy and in response to the call to establish a tourist city, with a crystallised concept of a big commercial activities, food courts and food centres with entertainment and recreational centres all provided under one-roof," said Ting.

All these complexes and hotels will also be equipped with handicapped-friendly facilities including ramps and special toilets for people from this group, besides being pedestrian-friendly.

Upon the completion of this project by end of 2007, based on its strategic location for commercial and tourism-related activities, he is certain that the business potential and property value will continue to appreciate.

The three hotels in Asia City itself including a budget hotel currently in operation," he said, adding this is part of their support to the growth of the State's tourism industry.

The 677 hotel rooms constitutes about 22.5 per cent of the total 3,000 hotel room requirement in the city by the year 2010 as stated by Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat.

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