Valuable properties left wasted

In need of rescue: The shops on the right have been repurposed to become the now fashionable Old Malaya dining hub while the one on the left, once called Serani Row for housing elite members of the Eurasian community, is eroding.

IT IS time to give due attention to the row of derelict houses staring into the busy Jalan Raja Chulan in Kuala Lumpur and the dozens of abandoned units behind it.

A call has been made for the wave of adaptive reuse under urban regeneration efforts to preserve this forgotten, but highly visible zone.