MALACCA: A commercial centre with a five-star hotel known as Best Western Premier Malacca amounting to RM300 million investment by property company Plentifield Marketing Sdn Bhd will be built within the Ayer Keroh Botanical Park. Plentifield managing director Dr Teoh Lian Hong said the nine-storey hotel and five commercial blocks at a 2.8ha site was expected to be completed by the end of 2013 and would adopt modern and green technology features.
“It will house, among others, entertainment centres, shoplots, halls, corporate offices and meeting venues equivalent to the standard of luxury hotels overseas,” he told reporters after the project’s groundbreaking ceremony on Monday. Teoh said the hotel, near the Malacca International Trade Centre and state zoo would boost 301 rooms, once completed.
The project is Plentifield’s first in the state and is anticipated to bring in enormous potential in view of its location within the tourist belt,” he said. The five commercial blocks would also have 506 business suites and 166 retail lots. Plentifield’s previous development includes a RM220 million project comprising a three-star hotel and commercial lots in Sandakan and RM300 million commercial lots in Shah Alam.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam who officiated the ceremony welcomed Plentifield’s investment and described it as timely in view of the shortage of five-star hotels in the state to cater to tourists. Plentifield, he noted had also agreed to build another five-star hotel on a four ha site near Kolej Yayasan Saad in Ayer Keroh.
-thestar online.
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