Mid Valley Megamall

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Mid Valley Megamall
Facts and statistics
Location	Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Coordinates	3°7′5″N 101°40′36″E / 3.11806, 101.67667Coordinates: 3°7′5″N 101°40′36″E / 3.11806, 101.67667
Opening date	November 20, 1999
Developer	IGB Group
Management	Mid Valley Megamall
Owner	IGB Group
No. of stores and services	430
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	420,000 m²
No. of floors	5 (Excluding car park)

Mid Valley Megamall KTM Komuter station.

Mid Valley Megamall is a 4.5 million square feet (420,000 m²) complex comprising a shopping mall, an office tower block, 30 signature offices and 2 hotels located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was opened in November 1999.

It has about 430 shops on five and a half floors. It has five anchor tenants; Carrefour, Jusco, Golden Screen Cinemas, Metrojaya and Harvey Norman. It also houses an 18 screen Cinema. Then there is a state-of-the-art bowling centre, a One-Stop IT Centre, two mega food courts and also a mega bookstore called MPH.

It houses a 48,300 square foot (4,500 m²) convention centre and it is situated adjacent to a 646 room business hotel named Cititel Midvalley and 30 units of exclusive 11 storey signature offices. A second hotel, Boulevard, opened in mid 2005. It has 390 rooms. Mega Mall is a key part of Mid Valley City, one of the country's largest urban development projects. It was awarded the Best Shopping Complex Award 2000 by Tourism Malaysia and Best Retail Development Award 2001 by FIABCI Malaysia. It has become one of Malaysia's most popular tourist destinations.

After The Gardens completed in 2007, it is linked to Mid Valley Megamall through a bridge. Not many knows about the existence of this bridge, though, as it is hidden by Oasis, one of the main food courts in the Megamall, which probably contributes to the high contrast between crowds of the two shopping centres.

[edit] Mid Valley Megamall as the RapidKL bus hub

Mid Valley Megamall is also a RapidKL bus hub. It is located at the North Court entrance.

• B105 : Mid Valley Megamall - KLCC LRT via KL Sentral
• B110 : Mid Valley Megamall - Bukit Bintang KL Monorail via KL Sentral
• U66 : Pasaramakota - Taman Medan via Petaling Jaya Old Town

The connecting bridge between Mid Valley Megamall and The Gardens, spanning above the central boulevard.

• U76 : Subang Parade (near Subang Jaya KTM Komuter) - KL Sentral via Jalan Klang Lama
• U84 : Pasaramakota - Kelana Jaya
• U85 : Pasaramakota - SEA Park, Section SS 2 Petaling Jaya via Universiti Hospital
• U87 : Pasaramakota - Bangsar Baru via Mid Valley Megamall (Bangsar Baru bound only)
• T631 : Mid Valley Megamall - Universiti LRT

[edit] Trivia

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It is said that the mall has excellent feng shui giving that the atrium roof is shaped like a bagua.

There is also an existing Hindu temple, the Sri Devi Shakti temple, incorporated into the mall on the southeast side, in exchange for the right for the developer to build in the airspace above the temple.

There is also a Church, named "Calvary Charismatic Centre" which provides Sunday Worship & Celebration Service at 10:30am on 5th floor of Cititel for guests of hotels, workers of the shopping malls, and all her members since 2003. Church in Mid Valley City.

The mall is connected to the Mid Valley Komuter station, a KTM Komuter station along the Rawang-Seremban Line, with the Kuala Lumpur Sentral one stop along.

The phase two of Mid Valley, the Gardens was launched on September 28, 2007. It will be fully opened in early November 2007.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Cititel Mid Valley
• LMC Salon & Academy, Mid Valley Megamall
• Church in Mid Valley City