Berjaya Times Square
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.jpg/200px-Berjaya_Time_Square_in_the_afternoon,_Kuala_Lumpur_(Dec_2006).jpg) Berjaya Times Square, as seen at the Jalan Pudu-Jalan Imbi crossroad. |
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| Location | Imbi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Opening date | October 2003 |
| Developer | Berjaya Group |
| Management | Berjaya Group |
| Owner | Berjaya Group |
| No. of stores and services | 1000+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 (Metrojaya, Cold Storage, Borders Group and Golden Screen Cinemas) |
| Total retail floor area | 700,000 m² |
| No. of floors | 13 (mall area) |
Berjaya Times Square KL is a building containing a huge shopping centre and two five star hotels located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was opened in October 2003 by the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad.
It is tagged as the "world’s largest building ever built in a single phase", with 7.5 million square feet (700,000 m²) of built up floor area. It is set to become an international landmark offering shopping, luxury accommodation, business, food and abundant entertainment.[citation needed]
Despite the initial hype, this project has met relatively low success and has generally been ignored by the majority of people in KL. This building over the years has become somewhat of a white elephant in the metro area of KL. Compared to more successful projects such as 1Utama and Midvalley Megamall, Times Square has significantly less appeal with unappealing tenants and a less than impressive indoor theme park.
Currently, it has space for more than 1000 retail shops (of which many are vacant), 1200 luxury service suites, 65 food outlets to suit many tastes and entertainment attractions such as Asia’s largest indoor theme park, Cosmo's World and Malaysia’s first-ever IMAX 2D & 3D theatre which is located on the 10th Floor. In April 2005, Borders Group opened its first franchise store here. Currently, the store is the largest Borders store in the world. Other popular stores include Metrojaya, which is a multi-level major department store, and many more.
The Kuala Lumpur Monorail's Imbi station is linked to the building by a footbridge.
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[edit] History
Originally, the land belonged to the millionaire and philanthropist Cheong Yoke Choy before World War 2. His massive bungalow once stood proudly until the entire land was purchased by Berjaya Group Tan Sri Vincent Tan for the development of the current Berjaya Times Square.
[edit] Trivia
Berjaya Times Square was the first location that teams of The Amazing Race Asia 1 had to visit and complete a task of abseiling from the 8th floor of the mall.
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