Sharikat
Permodalan Kebangsaan Bhd (SPK) has invested RM800
million to develop the Ambangan Heights housing
project in Sungai Petani, comprising the building
of 4.095 units of various types of houses.
SPK Managing Director Saiful Aznir Shahabudin said,
the project was built on a 285-hectare area comprising
terrace and semi-detached houses and bungalows.
“The project is scheduled to be completed
by 2006,” he told reporters after a ground-breaking
ceremony of Persiaran Amanjaya 5, a new road to
Bandar Amanjaya, and handing over of house keys
to the squatter residents of Sungai Lalang by
Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed
Zain, today.
He said the Ambangan Heights housing project
was among the main components in the Bandar Amanjaya
development, which would emerge as the biggest
and most modern town in this northern part of
the country.
He said Bandar Amanjaya is an integrated town
encompassing government offices, housing and commercial
centres, built on a 4,200 hectare site started
in 1995 and to be fully completed in 2030.
The Bandar Amanjaya project was started with
the construction of Main Town Centre on a 44 hectare
site, which is the government administration centre
and the town council comprising the Sungai Petani
Court complex, the Kuala Luda district office,
and the customs complex and the district hospital.
“Besides Ambangan Heights, we are planning
a housing project and a new commercial centre,”
he said.
SPK is a 100 percent Bumiputra-owned company
established in 1961.
At the function, Syed Razak also handed over
house keys to 55 squatter residents whose housing
sites were acquired to make way for the Bandar
Amanjaya project. – Bernama.
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