Finally there are some concrete information on the ongoing development on the tract of land sitting atop of  the golf course at The Club @ Bukit Utama. For many months now, the construction on the huge development has been ongoing and it’s going fast. Noticeably, if you are travelling through Persiaran Surian in Mutiara Damansara, the lower rise development is almost nearing completing while you can see 3 towers are rising fast at the background.

This specific development is actually 2 different developments, one being a new clubhouse being constructed, and the other, another condominium development called 9 Bukit Utama. The new clubhouse, Central Park Westlake, is a clubhouse with facilities such as a full Olympic-sized pool, multipurpose hall and squash courts, whereas the condo would actually be Phase 2 of the 1 Bukit Utama condominiums which were handed over back in 2005. This is part of Bandar Utama Development Sdn Bhd (BUDSB)’s massive 10 phases of condominium development. My guess is that there would be no more golf courses in the near future. Residents would still need to purchase membership to access the clubhouse.

I’m not crazy about the facade for 1 Bukit Utama, and upon finding out 9 Bukit Utama, the same thing can be said about the rendering for this new launch. For 9 Bukit Utama, most of the units is largely sized from 2200sf hence you can expect some bulky and blocky facade. And being true See Hoy Chan fashion, there would involve a lot of bricks and dated facade, and 9 Bukit Utama has all of it!

I managed to visit the sales office in Bandar Utama recently to enquire about the development. So far nothing is being publicised other than in Iproperty expo in KLCC recently. So I decided to check it out at their sales office in Bandar Utama. Stepping into the sales office, I thought I had entered a secondary school’s admin office. I’m not sure how the buyers can be confident in buying from a sales office like that, but then again, Bandar Utama is indeed a hot location, and units like their Megaria link houses were snapped up like hot cakes, proving that location is indeed the best selling point, regardless how much advert or branding a company puts in.

At the sales office, I managed to catch a few glimpse of the layouts. They are not regularly proportioned and many weird and arrowed angles, doesn’t seem to appeal to me at all. The facade surely didn’t help. The launch is expected to be next year, and completion in 2010.

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BY THEAN LEE CHENG

WITHOUT doubt, this will be a busy year for the See Hoy Chan Holdings Group with several projects in different sub-sectors of the property sector pending launch. One thing though has not changed – its founder and chief steward Datuk Teo Chiang Kok continues to remain hands on as far as the group’s operations are concerned.

Every once or twice a week, on a working day, he takes a 5km walk around the old and new wing of the 1 Utama mall by himself. (See Hoy Chan’s flagship development is Bandar Utama in Petaling Jaya)

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