Low Yat Plaza

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Low Yat Plaza
The northern and main entrance of Low Yat Plaza. In comparison to surrounding malls, Low Yat Plaza is located off main roadways in Imbi and Bukit Bintang.

Location	Imbi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Opening date	?
Developer	Low Yat Group
Management	Low Yat Group
Owner	Low Yat Group
No. of stores and services	~350
No. of anchor tenants	2
Total retail floor area	?
No. of floors	7

Low Yat Plaza (Simplified/Traditional Chinese: 刘蝶广场 / 劉碟廣場; Pinyin: liú díe guāng wǔ; Malay: Plaza Low Yat), or commonly referred to as LYP, is an established commercial shopping centre specializing in electronics and IT products in Malaysia. As an IT related product shopping centre, Low Yat Plaza is the most well known and most established among competitors and is to Kuala Lumpur what Sim Lim Square and Funan is to Singapore.

Located at Lot 7, Jalan 1/77, Off Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, LYP is behind Melia Kuala Lumpur hotel and which is opposite to Berjaya Times Square if coming from Imbi Monorail station and behind Sungei Wang Plaza if coming from Bukit Bintang Monorail station. Sandwiched between Melia and Sungei Wang, but along the main road is Imbi Plaza, an older version of an IT mall like Low Yat.

Low Yat Plaza stands out by offering a greater range and variety of a single product by having a collective of inter-chained stores. This is in contrast with streamlined arrangements in other electronics malls. Therefore, Low Yat Plaza allows the consumer to have greater buying power and freedom in selecting the products or electronic parts they wish to purchase. Most parts that are sold here are bargainable and many stores also offer their services to assemble the parts a customer purchases.

Each floor within the complex has its own speciality specialising in laptops, mobile phones, etc. There are eateries in the lower ground floor of the complex with ATM machines as well.

[edit] 2006 Raiding

In November 2006 the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs raided Low Yat Plaza and Imbi Plaza, confiscating more than 27,000 copies of pirated computer software and movies.

[edit] Floors

Low Yat Plaza has a total of 12 floors, including the car parks.

Floor	Type	Description
B5-B2	Basement	Car Park area
B1	Basement	Car Park area, Red-Box Karaoke
LG	Lower Ground	Food court, Video & Audio-related Shops
G	Main Ground floor	Restaurants, Guardian Pharmacy, Photography stores, Cell Phone stores (more on first floor), etc
1	First floor	Cell Phone Center, Clothes stores, bookstore, ATMs
2-3	Second and third floors	IT Computers Center, etc
4	Fourth floor	IT Computers Center, Offices, Warranty Department