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Kota Kinabalu City Waterfront (KKCW)
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Mercure Waterfront Kota Kinabalu.
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Anjung Samudra iis known as 'The Waterfront of Kota Kinabalu'. Right in the heart of KK City, the Waterfront is an integrated food and entertainment centre.
At the waterfront are many of Kota Kinabalu's seafood restaurants and a wide
variety of Malaysian and international cuisines.
The Port View Seafood Restaurant is one of the most renown seafood restaurants in the city, with a long history of its own. Seafood at the Port View is at its best comparable to Hong Kong restaurants.
The Shamrock is KK's first true Irish pub and bar serving imported Irish beer. They also serve a variety of Irish foods, some of them with a definitive local twist that should be tried!
Cock & Bull's is another favorite pub with a local band playing live nightly
except on Sundays. It is a typical English styled pub with a well stocked bar
and seating inside or outside. Their happy hour is from five to nine.
At the southern end of the Waterfront is the Beach Club and Waterfront
Restaurant. The hottest dance club in town, the Beach Club is equipped with
every modern contrivance to make it the foremost club in KK, maybe in the entire
Sabah. There are comfortable sofas to relax and listen to the music, a spacious
dance floor for the more active, a well stocked bar and even outside seating
when you wish to relax from dancing...
The Waterfront offers also some of the best souvenir shopping around. Drop in at
the Borneo Trading Post, a lofty and inspirational souvenir shop with a local
twist. Here you find all things Borneo, from blowpipes over gongs and
intricately hand-woven textiles, rattan baskets and bamboo flutes, rice wine and
Borneo spices, exotic massage oils and incenses and a wide variety of light
travelers' fashion perfect for your time in Borneo. Read our review.
The Nan Hai Treasure Gallery is the place for antique shopping. Nan Hai offers
ancient Chinese stone ware and pottery that was recovered in Malaysian waters.
Each piece at the Nan Hai gallery is certified and authentic, its origin can be
traced back not only to the exact place in the sunken cargo, but often also to
the very kiln where the object was fired hundreds of years ago. Years of studies
and analysis have been spent to unravel the history of each recovered ship
wreck, to open the unique time capsule and let history talk. Read our review.
Joint development project Waterfront Urban Development Sdn Bhd (WUD)
and Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK).
This RM500 million mixed seafront development is poised to change the
face of Kota Kinabalu
Expected to be completed by 2010, the Kota Kinabalu City Waterfront (KKCW)
development will, among others, feature the key attraction of a 2km-long
boardwalk
The KKCW is set to be a thriving waterfront pedestrian walkway that will
seamlessly connect a variety of retail, lifestyle, residential and hotel
establishments.
It was unveiled during the launching of the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) by
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last Tuesday.
Abdullah also witnessed the signing of the tripartite agreement for the KKCW
development between Waterfront Urban Development Sdn Bhd, Kuwait Finance House
(Malaysia) Bhd and a consortium of Middle Eastern and Malaysian investors.
Waterfront Urban Development Sdn Bhd managing director Reymee Mohamed Hussein
said in line with the preservation of the environment, the KKCW development
would incorporate environment-friendly features.
This will include hi-tech lighting, energy-conserving air conditioning systems
and solar-powered pedestrian lighting. And to be built using eco-friendly
materials, rising above the sea on stilts.

It is in line with the state government's endorsement for synergistic smart
partnerships that leverage on the private sector's dynamism and the stewardship
of public entities.
The project is in line with SDC and DBKK's overall urbanization and development
master plan, which is primarily to increase the role of coastal cities as
catalysts for modernization and development in Sabah
The project was envisaged after detailed studies were done on several thriving
world-class international waterfront attractions such as Darling Harbor
(Australia), Cape Town Waterfront (South Africa), Victoria Harbor (Hong Kong),
Canary Wharf (London) and Clark Quay Riverside (Singapore).
The development will also spur economic growth for Kota Kinabalu and provide
employment and new business opportunities to local residents and businesses.
Waterfront Urban Development Sdn Bhd designed this development to unlock the
potential of the city's waterfront and be comparable with other world-class
waterfront development
The KKCW project is expected to attract high-end tourists as it aims to be among
the world's great seafront destinations
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INDEX : Kota Kinabalu May 15, 2008 05:43:42 PM |
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