Low Yat Plaza
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 The northern and main entrance of Low Yat Plaza. In comparison to surrounding malls, Low Yat Plaza is located off main roadways in Imbi and Bukit Bintang. |
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| Location | Imbi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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| Opening date | 1999 |
| Developer | Low Yat Group |
| Management | Low Yat Group |
| Owner | Low Yat Group |
| No. of stores and services | ~350 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | - |
| No. of floors | 7 |
Low Yat Plaza (Simplified/Traditional Chinese: 刘蝶广场 / 劉碟廣場; Pinyin: Liú Dié guǎng chǎng; Malay: Plaza Low Yat), or commonly referred to as LYP, is an established commercial shopping centre specializing in electronics and IT products in Malaysia. As an IT related product shopping centre, Low Yat Plaza is the most well known and most established among competitors and is to Kuala Lumpur what Sim Lim Square and Funan is to Singapore.
Located at Lot 7, Jalan 1/77, Off Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, LYP is behind Melia Kuala Lumpur hotel which is opposite to Berjaya Times Square if coming from Imbi Monorail station and behind Sungei Wang Plaza if coming from Bukit Bintang Monorail station. Sandwiched between Melia and Sungai Wang, its competitor along the main road is Imbi Plaza, an older version of an IT mall like Low Yat.
The shopping centre offers a great variety of single products with its collection of inter-chained stores. This is in contrast with streamlined arrangements in other electronics malls. Therefore, Low Yat Plaza allows the consumer to have greater buying power and freedom in selecting the products or electronic parts they wish to purchase. Most parts that are sold here are bargainable and many stores also offer their services to assemble the parts a customer purchases.
Each floor within the complex has its own speciality specialising in laptops, mobile phones, etc. There are eateries in the lower ground floor of the complex with automated teller machines as well.
[edit] History
In November 2006 the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs raided Low Yat Plaza and Imbi Plaza, confiscating more than 27,000 copies of pirated computer software and movies.
[edit] Floors
Low Yat Plaza has a total of 12 floors, including the car parks.
| Floor | Type | Description |
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| B5-B2 | Basement | Car Park area |
| B1 | Basement | Car Park area, Red-Box Karaoke |
| LG | Lower Ground | Food court, Video & Audio-related Shops, ATMs |
| G | Main Ground floor | Restaurants, Guardian Pharmacy, Photography stores, Cell Phone stores (more on first floor), etc. |
| UG | Upper Ground | Games stores, Cafe, Photography stores, Money changers |
| 1 | First floor | Cell Phone Center, Phone Accessories Center such as Spectrum Accessories, Clothes stores, bookstore |
| 2-3 | Second and third floors | IT Computers Center, etc. |
| 4 | Fourth floor | IT Computers Center, Offices, Warranty Department |
[edit] Lowyat.Net
Lowyat.net is Malaysian largest online IT community, and has no relations with Low Yat Plaza. The site is named after Low Yat Plaza that is significant for IT product among the Malaysians.
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