Sunway City

Sunway City Kuala Lumpur Bandar Sunway(Malay)
Aerial view of Sunway City, looking northeast, in 2011
Sunway City Kuala Lumpur Location inPeninsular Malaysia
Coordinates:3°4′3″N101°36′12″E
Country	Malaysia
State	Selangor
Government
• Administered by	Subang Jaya City Council(majority) Petaling Jaya City Council(partial)
Time zone	UTC+8(MST)

Sunway City(Malay:Bandar Sunway) is an 800-acre integrated township inSubang Jaya,Selangor,Malaysia.This township is named after its developer,Sunway Group,which had also got its name fromSungai Way,a suburb inSelangor.Sunway City is said to incorporate the urban planning concept of a15-minute city.

Leisure and Entertainment

Front facade of Sunway Pyramid shopping mall.

Sunway Lagoonamusement park.

Sunway Pyramidis a shopping centre opened in July 1997 as Malaysia's first themed shopping and entertainment mall. One of the mall's most easily recognised designs is theEgyptian-inspiredPyramidwith a lion "standing guard" at the entrance. The rest of the building is embellished in the monumental style, complete with pseudo-hieroglyphicsdecorating facades, along with numerous Pharonic statuaries.

In the center of Sunway is the amusement parkSunway Lagoon,which has many different themed parks, including some of the biggest rides in Malaysia and a large water park.

Jalan PJS 11/28 is one of the commercial street within the township

There is also a lot of commercial building in Bandar Sunway with different type of restaurants, banks and other.

Accommodation

Sunway Resort Hotel

Sunway Pyramid Hotel

Bandar Sunway has a range of accommodations, including the Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa, the Sunway Pyramid Hotel, and the Sunway Clio Hotel.

Education

Sunway University with student

Sunway has also become known as a higher education hub, with two large universities in the area, namelyMonash University Malaysia,andSunway University,as well as other private colleges such asSunway College,Le Cordon Bleu MalaysiaandThe One Academy.

There are other notable schools in Sunway which are SK Bandar Sunway, SMK Bandar Sunway,SK Kampung LindunganandSunway International School.

Healthcare

Panoramic view of Bandar Sunway taken in April 2022, in the foreground is the Sunway Geo commercial block with Sunway Medical Center behind it

Healthcare in Sunway is provided by private hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, along with Sime Darby Medical Centre (previously Subang Jaya Medical Centre) in adjacent Subang Jaya.

Religion

Sunway comprises many other companies and residences not owned by the Sunway group. Places of worship include Masjid Al-Husna, which is located right opposite Sunway Pyramid. Several Buddhist Centres (like Subang Jaya Buddhist Association, Passaddhi Buddhist Centre andDharma Drum MountainBuddhist Centre) and churches are located in the vicinity as well, most notably the nearest Catholic churches would be St Ignatius Church inKelana Jaya,Petaling Jaya as well as Church of the Assumption inJalan Templer,Old Town, Petaling Jaya and the Church of St Thomas More inUSJ, Subang Jaya.

Transport

Bandar Sunway is connected to the cities ofKuala Lumpur,Shah Alam,Petaling JayaandKlangvia a network of highways. The highways accessible to Bandar Sunway is theFederal Highway,Shah Alam Expressway(KESAS),New Pantai Expressway(NPE) andDamansara–Puchong Expressway(LDP). The township is also served by an urban-suburb rail link, theSubang Jaya Komuter station.

Public transport

Bandar Sunway is home to Malaysia's first (and to date, only)bus rapid transitline, theB1BRT Sunway Line.It connects theKD08SB1Setia Jaya Komuter station(Sunway-Setia Jaya) in the north until theKJ31SB7USJ7 stationin the south, passing through Sunway Mentari, Sunway Pyramid and Monash University in the process.

A monorail service named Sunway Monorail (alternatively known as Suntrek 2000) operated in Bandar Sunway from 2000 to 2007 and was the second monorail system to operate in Malaysia following the Genting Monorail and the first public monorail in the country, opening in 2000 and predating the launch of the Kuala Lumpur Monorail by three years.There were two monorails primarily ran along a 3 km steel-tracked loop system surrounding the Sunway Lagoon water theme park, stopping at three key locations on the northern and western side of the loop: Sunway Pyramid East station, Sunway Pyramid West station (nowJohnny Rocketshamburger restaurant) and Sunway College station, with a branch line extends 600m west towards the monorail system'sdepotfrom the loop. The monorail system operated with two five-car SL5 trains in its rolling stock; the trains produced bySevern-Lamb,a British locomotive manufacturer. The total cost of the loop was an estimated US$10 million. The system has since been shut down due to the expansion of the Sunway Pyramid 2, and part of its infrastructure were later incorporated into the BRT line.

Alternately, there are rapidKL bus services connecting Sunway Pyramid toKD09KS02KJ28Subang Jaya station,some 15–20 minutes away. The Selangor state government also provides its subsidized bus service - the Smart Selangor bus routeSJ02,connecting Bandar Sunway toSP25Puchong,allowing an alternative to the longer Puchong-Putra Heights-USJ 7 train ride.

TheSubang Airport(IATA:SZB) is 13 kilometres from this development; since May 2018 rail connection to the airport is possible via an interchange at Subang Jaya station to theKL Sentral-Terminal Skypark Line.

Car

Bandar Sunway is located near the junction of theDamansara–Puchong ExpresswayandKL–Port Klang Federal HighwayFederal Route 2.Motorists coming fromPuchong,Putrajayaand evenSerembanwill opt for the LDP.

A few kilometres south lies another interchange, this time between the LDP andShah Alam Expressway,which connectsPandamarannearPort KlangtoSri Petaling.

Running directly in front of Sunway Pyramid mall is theNew Pantai Expressway,which runs from Subang Jaya toAngkasapuriinLembah Pantaiin southwestern Kuala Lumpur.

Politics and administration

The township falls within the neighbourhood sections of PJS 7 to PJS 11 (PJSmeaning "Petaling Jaya Selatan" or Petaling Jaya South). Since 1997 much of Bandar Sunway was governed by theMBSJ,taking over fromMBPJ.MBPJ however retains administration over the northern part of the township, including PJS 10, PJS 5, PJS 6, Sunway Mentari andSetia Jaya.

Bandar Sunway falls under theSubangconstituency of theMalaysian Parliament,currently held by Wong Chen of thePKR.

On the state level, Bandar Sunway is represented in theSelangor State Legislative Assemblyas part ofSubang Jaya constituency.The incumbent assemblywoman for Subang Jaya is Michelle Ng from theDAPwho succeededHannah Yeohof theDAPsince the aftermath ofMalaysian general election, 2018.

External links

• Sunway Group Official Website