Tuesday 29 March 2011

Commercial Properties

1. The Spring Shopping Mall













The largest shopping mall in Sarawak. This Shopping mall Owned and built by PSB Realty Development Sdn Bhd. Mr. James Ling - director of The Spring developer PSB Realty Development Sdn Bhd. The Spring Shopping Mall is located at, Jalan Simpang Tiga, Kuching,Sarawak, 93350.



Location of Spring Shopping Mall


The location of the shopping mall is located at 24, Jalan Simpang Tiga, Kuching, Sarawak.


Inside view





The Spring Mall is the 1st lifestyle shopping mall in Kuching City with numerous
 choices for high-fashion labels, entertainment and foods.

The new Spring shopping mall, different, exciting and vibrant and based on the 
design of shopping malls popular in Australia and New Zealand, took pride of 
place on a 12-acre site in Kuching City of Sarawak.

This retail mall marks the Kuching city’s coming of age. Kuching, with a population
 of 600,000 but a retail environment far behind that of similar-sized cities other
 part of Malaysia. This new Spring brings a bounce into the City of Cats.




The Famous place in this Shopping Mall is The MBO Cineplex Cinema




MBO Cinemas opened its eight-screen Cineplex in June 2009. This Cineplex 

kuching is first in East Malaysia.

The MBO Cineplex Cinema, located on the top floor of The Spring shopping 

mall have a total seating capacity of 1,584 with the largest hall 
accommodating 426 patrons.

MBO Cinema Kuching cost RM 8 millions.

The Cineplex has a 3D projector and “couple seats” for pairs. One hall 

designated for couple seats which can accommodate about 50 couples.

The 3D projector will be MBO’s first and  placed in the largest hall.


MBO Kuching schedule
MBO Kuching showtime
MBO showtime



This shopping Mall are complete with the facilities and amenities.


2. Boulevard Mall



Located at Mile 4 Kuching-Serian Road (not far from Regional Bus Terminal). Opened in late December 2007. It offers a Boulevard Hypermarket and Department Store plus a variety of shopping outlets like Sony Centre, Popular Book store and fast foods outlets such as Sushi King, Kenny Rogers Roasters and KFC. The management is currently expanding the mall.


Inside view





This is the 2nd Boulevard in Sarawak. The 1st being in Miri opened for a few
years and known for its HUGE brick-red coloured building and extensive carpark.

This Kuching 2nd Boulevard is a 6-storey building. There have 2 basement

storeys are parking parks.Boulevard Hypermarket is the main tenant with the
biggest floor space on each storey. On the 1st floor(basement) is the supermarket
and electrical goods etc, 2nd Floor – Ladies Wear, 3rd Floor– Men’s wear, 
4th Floor – Kid’s wear.


1st Floor is basement and Food court.
2nd Floor - Guardian, Kenny Rogers

3rd & 4th Floor - Popular Bookshop, Clothes shop, Hair Salon.


Kuching has not being  a shopping haven in Sarawak until 2008 when 2 big
 shopping malls opened.

Including both big and small, there are  8 shopping centers in Kuching.

The more popular one include Tun Jugah, Riverside Shopping complex and 
Sarawak Plaza.

For electronic gadgets, go to Wisma Saberkas. Wisma Saberkas is the IT

centre in Kuching with a lot of good deals for electronic equipments in there.
This mall is the kuching version of  Low Yat Plaza of Kuala Lumpur. 
The famous electronic equipment here such as Komputer, Latop, Handphone, 
and etc.


Since 2007 six  new malls are coming up. 3 of those being big ones. Another

few others under planning.

The first to open amongst these new malls is Boulevard Lifestyle Shopping Mall

as the biggest lifestyle mall in Sarawak.
Boulevard is own by Sarawak own business men. The first  Boulevard Mall
is in Miri which is smaller than the Kuching sister mall.
 

Majority of Kuching Boulevard retail space been taken up by Boulevard hypermarket 
and Departmental Store, Guardian, Kenny Roasters, Pizza Hut, KFC, Sushi King,
Popular Bookstore and a few other.

The Tenants in the Boulevard


1) Boulevard Hypermarket & Department Store
2) Causeway Bay Hong Kong Restaurant 
3) World of Cartoons 
4) Elements Crystal
5) Minex Jewellery 
6) Secret Recipe
7) Popular Bookstore
8) Sushi King





3. Green Heights Mall



located at Jalan Lapangan Terbang, it is Kuching's first suburban neighbourhood small mall, with an international Cold Storage Supermarket as the anchor tenant, over some 4,000 m² of leasable space. It opened on the 13th June 2008. 

Inside view


This is view from top level.


4. Sarawak Plaza



Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman (next to Grand Margherita Hotel). One of Kuching's older malls. Lea Center is the anchor tenant, selling a wide variety of shoes from sportswear to fashion. Recently, the mall was renovated hoping to provide a better shopping environment for both locals and foreigners. 

Holiday Inn Hotel

From the view we can see the middle of the building between two building.so, that is the Sarawak Plaza.




5. Tun Jugah



Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman (opposite Sarawak Plaza). Named after the first Sarawakian politician in Malaysian Parliament, the mall stands majestically twelve storeys tall at the commercial and financial hub of Kuching City. It comprises three levels of retail space, nine levels of office space, and two levels of basement car park. It also has one of the major local bookstores, Popular, as one of its main tenant. 


6. Wisma Saberkas



Wisma Saberkas  located at Jalan Tun Haji Openg. Junction of Green Road, Rock
Road and Batu Lintang Road.


This 22-storey shopping cum office complex (7 storeys shops + 15 storeys of offices) 
has  over 40 computer shops and mobile phone shops and booths offering the latest 
and choices of ICT products.


Wisma Saberkas is a good place to getting computer parts and components.
Her you find laptop, printer, scanner, rams,  and so forth from  trusted 
acquaintances in computer IT and sales. Be it laptops, desktop computes, 
printers, MP3 players, gaming software, digital cameras and all ICT related 
products, shopper can find their model here.


The shopping mall opened in the year 1985 and has established as one of 
Sarawak’s foremost ICT malls.

Wisma Seberkas  also houses a supermarket and departmental store, Ngiu Kee, 

bank, pharmacies, food outlets, clothing boutiques, beauty salons, hair salons, 
cyber cafes, fitness equipment stores, etc...


This mall is oriented for general public. Major shopping centre for people in
Third Miles, Green Road and Batu Lintang.Uniqueness about the place is it 
houses the branded and leading departmental store of  Nguikee that offers a 
variety of items of clothes, food, stationeries, etc with a reasonable price.


The Hush Puppies, Speedy, Cindy, Hong Kong Noodles House are found here.



7. Riverside Shopping Complex

Jln. Tunku Abdul Rahman (opposite Sarawak Plaza). One of the older malls in the city, it is home to the first Parkson in Kuching. Other anchor tenants include LFS Cineplex and Giant Supermarket. It is also home to Riverside Bowling - one of the two bowling centres in Kuching. 

Inside View


DSC00659.jpg Riverside Shopping Complex

DSC00659.jpg Riverside Shopping Complex





8. Kenyalang Park


Kenyalang Suburb. A very old place that consists of a cluster of shophouses and one enclosed area. It is the place to go if you want to find cheap items like clothes, accessories and especially DVDs/VCDs. When Chinese New Year approaches, many stores are set up here to cater to the event. Kenyalang would usually be crowded with people during these times. 


9. Crown Square


Towards Pending, opposite Hock Lee Centre. A medium-sized, newly refurbished shopping mall. The tenants include Mr. Ho's Fine Foods - which serves authentic fusion cuisine. The largest Mummycare and Kiddycare in the city is located here.


10. Hock Lee Centre



Jln. Abang Abdul Rahim. The place to find and buy cheap clothes and fashion accessories for the young females. There are electronics and a supermarket in the basement and Home & Living on the ground and 1st floor. One of the major bookstores in Kuching, Smart Bookshop is under the same roof. A Hock Lee Music Centre is also available on the 3rd floor(previously was on the 2nd floor) which sells a wide variety of musical instruments(be warned that these are not traditional instruments). 

SHOPPING PODIUM Hock Lee Centre is well known as the longest shopping / prime retail corridor along Jalan Datuk Abang Abdul Rahim. (160m. long). 

Hock Lee Centre Shopping Podium has retail space over 117,000 sq. ft. Three storey elegant atrium can be used for promotions or having special events. 

The shoplots are fully occupied and comprised of supermarket, children playground, departmental stores, bookstores, electrical stores, boutiques, food court, restaurants and more varied shops in healthy business environment from Basement 1 to Level 3.


 Inside View


Shopping Podium Atrium

Features and Facilities 
  • Well coordinated and controlled signages
  • Professional management
  • Design with disabled in mind
  • Extensive car parks
  • Inter floor accessibility via modern escalators and passenger lifts
  • Elegant tropical flora landscaping




11. Wisma Satok


Off Jln Satok, just a pedestrian bridge away from the location of the Sunday Market. One of the older malls in Kuching. Cheap items can be found here. There's a departmental store and supermarket. A high concentration of mediocre cyber cafe is at the fourth floor. CIMB Bank is located beside Wisma Satok. 



12. Wisma Hopoh



Jalan P. Ramlee, near Syaria Court. Just a walk away from Sarawak Museum. A small and old shopping centre yet still frequented by shoppers. Its tenant includes Lea Sports Centre, Jee Kwong Optics and the fast food restaurant franchise, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). 


13.The Hills



This new shopping complex is newly built last year and slowly gaining its reputation as a place for leisure and brands. Another attraction to the complex is New Avenue, a place that consists of 36 mini fashion outlets catering for the needs of trendy youths, while an ICT section having around 32 outlets offering a wide range of high tech gadgets is also on the cards. 610 basement car park lots are available and the basement car park is spacious as well with lit conditions.