We are seeing another mega project coming up. The news just came up in Malaysian Insider. KL is going to have another exhibition and convention center, having an area of 1 million sq ft. The area size can roughly house 700 units of 20'x70' size houses.
It is a private investment project that got the government's consent, and what we are seeing is that the owner is yet another familiar name. It is correct to ask that if this is built, how many exhibitions will they be looking at to fully utilize the place and not let it become another white elephant? The Minister of Trade said that this exhibition center will boost tourism and trade, but isn't this the same reason why they built the under utilized Putrajaya International Convention Center?
This is another classical "First World Infrastructure being handled with Third World Mentality". They just want to build, but do not know how to maintain and fully utilized its potential.
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