Phase two IOI City Mall opens in August, marking country's largest mall

KUALA LUMPUR: IOI City Mall is set to become the largest mall in Malaysia with the opening its Phase II on 25 August and will have more than 700 retail outlets in total.

Strategically located at IOI Resort City, it enjoys a potential population catchment of 3.1 million from nearby townships in southern Klang Valley, namely Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Kajang, Bangi, Sepang, Puchong, and Seri Kembangan which will become an attractive retail and entertainment hub.

With the opening of phase II, IOI City Mall will have a total of 14 anchor tenants and more than 200 cafes and restaurants for gastronomy lovers to enjoy.

IOI Properties Group (IOIPG) chief executive officer Datuk Voon Tin Yow in a statement said IOI City Mall is set to become the largest shopping mall in Malaysia with an additional one million square feet (sq ft) of net lettable area (NLA), bringing the total NLA of IOI City Mall to 2.5 million sq ft.

"Beyond retail, the mall presents the addition of IOI City Farm, an 18,000 sq ft. indoor edutainment exhibition space that provides family-friendly activities to learn about plants and animals," he said.

The new edutainment exhibition consists of three zones namely the Plant Zone, Animal Zone, and Aquatic Zone, for visitors to interact and observe more than 70 species of plants, small cute animals, and fishes.

The mall will also feature the new IOI Grand Exhibition and Convention Centre, a 40,000 sq ft hall with state-of-the-art facilities with a capacity of 2,000 guests for wedding banquets and approximately 3,000 delegates for conferences as well as a rooftop sports centre which boasts a total of 15 badminton courts and two covered futsal arenas.

-- BERNAMA