RM300m overhaul for ex-Yaohan mall

PETALING JAYA: With renovations set to begin in May, Sunway Real Estate Investment Trust (Sunway REIT) aims to return the former Yaohan mall, one of Kuala Lumpur's oldest shopping centres and in its prime, the city's largest, to its heyday.

Now christened Sunway Putra Place (SPP), the REIT managers intend to set aside RM300mil in capital expenditure (capex) for a total overhaul of its retail complex, which will reopen in the first quarter of 2015 as an “urban lifestyle mall”.