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Everrise Supermarkets and TGV Cinemas represented by their respective chief executive officer Jeffrey Sia and Gerald V Dibbayawan at the signing ceremony at the PacifiCity Sales Gallery witnessed by director general of Kota Kinabalu City Hall, Datuk Yeo Boon Hai, and executive director Kuok Khoon Ping and managing director Jonathan Wheeler of the project developer Pacific Sanctuary Holdings Sdn Bhd Jonathan Wheeler presenting to guests and panel of invited guests PacifiCity represents a new focal point for Kota Kinabalu teeming with a rich mix of local businesses, community centres, top schools and a large catchment of local and expatriate residents which has contributed to its family friendly positioning and tenancy mix of the shopping mall. “Reflecting our community centric vision, we have placed a lot of emphasis on creating a family friendly, safe and professionally managed shopping centre. Through dialogue with our target patrons and experienced retail planners, we are crafting a shopping mall that will serve the wants, needs and whims of KK’s population,” says Jonathan Wheeler. He adds that the two anchor tenants will be bringing exciting new retail and entertainment concepts to Sabah. Everrise Supermarket, one of the largest and fastest growing supermarkets in Sarawak, opened its first store in 1993 and today offers complete onestop grocery shopping for all household needs, combined with a valuefor-money retail experience across 20 stores to serve a lifestyle oriented customer. The new 25,000 sq ft Everrise Supermarket in PacifiCity aims to create a new lifestyle and consumer-centric supermarket environment by introducing new lines of products and services and featuring new store design that appeals to the local community. The project’s 8-screen 50,000 sq ft Cineplex will be TGV Cinemas’ first establishment in Sabah. TGV Cinemas is one of Malaysia’s oldest and largest multiplex cinema operators with 22 cineplexes and close to 180 screens across the country. Their strategic partnership with IMAX has transformed an ordinary trip to the cinema into a totally immersive movie experience. The IMAX screen is four storeys high, allowing a picture that is bigger, higher and wider than your field of vision, fully immersing the viewer in the movie. The experience is intensified by a laser-aligned 12,000 watt sound system and a custom designed seating layout to ensure moviegoers are always in the centre of the action. The design of PacifiCity’s 450,000 sq ft shopping centre draws inspiration from Sabah’s natural beauty, quite literally ‘bringing the outside inside’ with features such as the Kinabatangan River Village, a 90-meter long indoor river spanned by quaint little boutiques and cafes, to a cavernous signature atrium filled with green walls, natural timbers and light wells. Site progress continues on track with the topping out of the retail podium expected by early next year. www.PropertyHunter.com.my 35