IMPRESSION MELAKA INAUGURAL SHOW ON 1.2.2018

The Impression Melaka theatre, the central component of the project, will occupy 17 acres. The remaining 121 acres will have residential, hotel, retail and commercial components, which will be developed over 8 to 10 years.

The theatre and a mall next to it, called Terra Square, are now under construction. Impression Melaka is scheduled for completion by the end of this year while Terra Square is expected to be completed in the third quarter of next year.

Sitting on 14.6 acres, the mall will have a total net leasable area of 600,000 sq ft. Boo reveals that a Chinese corporate has bought 60% of the space. Yong Tai will keep and manage the remaining units.

“It will be a mall with a different concept because the design is the reverse of conventional malls. Most malls have shops that face the centre and the centre is a void, with the ground floor being the concourse. For our mall, the shops will look outwards, overlooking the theatre and the Straits of Malacca.
“It will be something like a street mall but it will be covered and have air conditioning because of the hot weather here. So, it will be a street mall with a nice view within a comfortable environment,” he explains.

The mall will provide tourists, who come for shows at Impression Melaka, with a place for entertainment, food and shopping, says Boo. He expects Impression City to have a sustainable population that will have a spillover effect on the business components of the development.

Meanwhile, the first showcase at Impression Melaka is expected to take place by Feb 1 next year.

The theatre, with a seating capacity of 2,000, will present the Impression Series — a live artistic performance co-founded by Zhang Yimou, Wang Chaoge and Fan Yue, the directors of the 2008 Beijing Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies. As the first Impression Series out of China, the show in Melaka is expected to draw three million tourists in the first year of operation.

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