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Penang Times Square




Penang Times Square is a massive urban redevelopment project in George Town, Penang. It is being developed on the site previously occupied by Eastern Smelting, also known as Dato Keramat Smelting and Estoy Smelting Company.

Penang Times Square, developed by Ivory Properties Group, comprises commercial as well as residential development, planned to be undertaken under four phases. Phase 1 is the development called Birch the Plaza. Intended to be a landmark along Dato Kramat Road, Birch the Plaza will have commercial units as well as residential units. The retail podium of Birch the Plaza will have three storeys of shoplots while the There is even a plan to include a monorail station, if ever the monorail is introduced to George Town. At time this update is written (Nov 2009), the monorail project is still very much on the drawing board - with a high possibility of having fallen off it.

Phase 2 is called Birch Regency. It too will comprise commercial as well as residential units, and is at the moment in the final stages of planning. Phases 3 and 4 are still on the drawing board.

Within the premises of Penang Times Square is Birch House, the former office of Eastern Smelting, and now the headquarters of the developer, Ivory Properties. By the way, the name Birch that is used in the property refers not to JWW Birch, the first Resident of Perak who was assassinated, but to the popular E.W. Birch, the Resident of Perak between 1905 and 1909, who helped in the development of Kinta Valley and Penang during his term.

The roads surrounding Penang Times Square bore the name of places from where the tin ore originated, such as Tongkah Road and Trang Road.

Update Nov 2009

Sunshine City, the new flagship store of the Suiwah Corporation, is expected to open at Penang Times Square at the anchor tenant. This is the much-needed injection of life to the otherwise non-happening shopping mall.

Getting to Penang Times Square

Penang Times Square is located along Jalan Dato Keramat. From the Weld Quay Bus Terminal, take Rapid Penang bus no. 201, 202, 203, 204, 206 or U301 to Jalan Dato Keramat.

Nearby Sights

  • Nagarathar Sivan Temple
  • Sri Kamatchi Amman Temple
  • Church of Our Lady of Sorrows

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  • Komtar

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    Penang Times Square (9 December 2008)
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    Penang Times Square, as viewed from Tye Sin Street (2 December 2008)
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    Penang Times Square, during construction (16 May 2008)
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