Tropicana City Mall

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Tropicana City Mall

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Neon signs of Tropicana City mall at night
Location Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Coordinates 3°7′49.69″N101°37′37.22″E / 3.1304694°N 101.6270056°E / 3.1304694; 101.6270056 Coordinates: 3°7′49.69″N101°37′37.22″E / 3.1304694°N 101.6270056°E / 3.1304694; 101.6270056
Opening date December 18, 2008 [1]
Developer Tropicana Corporation Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Dijaya Corporation Berhad)
Owner CapitaMalls Malaysia Trust berhad
No. of stores and services 1 hypermarket and 200 retail lots
Total retail floor area approximately 700,000 sq ft (65,000 m2) (gross)
Approximately 450,000 sq ft (42,000 m2)
No. of floors 4
Parking 1,700 car park bays
Website tropicanacitymall.com

Tropicana City Mall is a mixed-used buildings which consists of shopping malls, an office block and condominiums. [2] This building is located in Damansara Utama, a suburb in the northern part of Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia and located near Damansara Link of Sprint Expressway. [3] It was officially opened on December 18, 2008 by Dijaya Corporation Berhad (Currently known as Tropicana Corporation Sdn Bhd). [1]

A condominium, often shortened to condo, in the United States and in most Canadian provinces, is a type of living space similar to an apartment but independently sellable and therefore regarded as real estate. The condominium building structure is divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas that are jointly owned. Similar concepts in other English-speaking countries include strata title in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and the Canadian province of British Columbia; commonhold in the United Kingdom; and sectional title in South Africa.

Damansara Utama is a suburb of Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. The suburb is divided into two sections, SS20 in the east and SS21 in the west which are separated in the middle by the Damansara–Puchong Expressway, a heavily used six-lane expressway. It has a population of about 142,000 people.

Petaling Jaya City in Selangor, Malaysia

Petaling Jaya is a major Malaysian city originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur. It is located in the Petaling District of Selangor with an area of approximately 97.2 square kilometres (37.5 sq mi). Petaling Jaya was granted city status on 20 June 2006.

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On 26 Jan 2015, CapitaMalls Malaysia trust (CMMT) announced the acquisition of Tropicana City Mall and its office tower for RM540 Million. [4]

Shopping malls

This mall consists of more than 200 retail lots, coffeehouses and restaurants. [2] At the opening, the main anchor for this mall was Carrefour (now known as ÆON BiG, a subsidiary of Japanese retail company, Æon Group) while other anchors are Toys R Us and Borders Bookstore. [1] Golden Screen Cinemas; the main cinema of Tropicana City Malls was opened on July 2009. [5] On February 2010, Pos Malaysia officially opened its post office in this mall and it was the 100th post office to be opened in Malaysia. [6]

Carrefour French hypermarket chain

Carrefour S.A. is a French multinational retailer headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, France, in the Hauts-de-Seine Department near Paris. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world with 12,300 self-service shops at the end of 2016. Carrefour operates in more than 30 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Carrefour means "crossroads" in French. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Æon Group company

ÆON Group or AEON Group is a group of retail and financial services companies based in Chiba, Japan, which is centered on ÆON Co., Ltd. It has sister companies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, and also trades under the JUSCO name. It claims to be Japan's largest retail group in terms of sales, but is actually ranked as the second largest Japanese retailer by sales, behind Seven & I Holdings (Seven-Eleven) in the Fortune Global 500 rankings, and 10th worldwide in the retail food and drug store category.

Borders Group former international book and music retailer

Borders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores.

Transportation

The mall previously operated a shuttle bus service with an hourly / two hourly frequency on a daily basis to opposite Kelana Jaya LRT Station.

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Tropicana City Mall Shuttle Bus

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