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The Exchange TRX, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Developer: Lendlease

The retail space will be home to more than 80 brands, covering lifestyle, the flow of people going through each commercial floors.
fashion, F&B and wellness, along with a premium supermarket. The The Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) is a vibrant, experience-led lifestyle
basement floor ‘The Help & Service’ offers 24-hour shops, parcel- destination that is seamlessly integrated with a 10-acre activated
delivery services and supermarkets, while the upper floor features a public park. Set to be the new lifestyle epicentre of Malaysia’s capital
brunch and all-day dining space called ‘The Balcony’ and a meeting space city of Kuala Lumpur, The Exchange TRX will offer socially immersive
‘The Cellar’. ‘The Lobby’ will house chic cafes and ‘The Dining Room’ is experiences encompassing events, entertainment, arts and culture,
dedicated to more up-market restaurants. The second and third floors sports and leisure and over 430 lifestyle, dining, concept stores and
of the development will house ‘The Dressing Room’ – a collection of new-to-market brands. Designed as ‘a lifestyle precinct in the park’, The
fashion and beauty stores – and ‘The Clubhouse & Spa’ zone. Exchange TRX by developer Lendlease sits at the heart of a 17-acre
Zhuhai Shizimen Huafa Mall, Phase 2 (Plot A8) by developers Zhuhai retail-led mixed-use development located in Malaysia’s first international
Huafa Properties Co., Ltd will have its grand opening on 30 June 2023, financial district. The Exchange TRX is known as a lifestyle precinct that
with a total GFA of approximately 40,000sq m. This three-storey-high encompasses retail, Malaysia’s first Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants
retail project will be positioned as an “Innovative Lifestyle Mall”, which that is connected to the TRX City Park, six premier residential towers,
is one of the components of the mixed-use development consisting of a low-rise large floor plate campus-style office and a dedicated Mass
150m-high hotel and office building and 150m-high residential building. Rapid Transport (MRT) station. The entire development is expected to
The shopping mall is placed along an east-west axis and the outdoor be completed in stages from 2023 –2027, with the retail component
entrance plaza and nodes are designed at the podium below the two opening in Q4 2023.
towers. The layout design highlights the flexibility, in which a variety of K11 Group has unveiled a new harbour front cultural retail
store sizes are designed in the layout plan to flexibly fulfil various tenants’ destination in Shenzhen dubbed K11 Ecoast, a flagship for its Mainland
needs of different business style and requirements. Furthermore, China expansion plan. The US$1.4bn project, located in Prince Bay,
pedestrian flow in the shopping layout has been designed to maximise is scheduled to open at the end of 2024. It is jointly developed by

K11 Ecoast, Shenzhen, China
Developer: New World Development Company