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Pakuwon Batam
Batam’s largest mall with tax-free shopping, Pakuwon Batam, is already under construction and will eventually open for us to visit.
With the new hovercraft-like fast ferry to Batam shortening your commute to just 30 minutes, it might be even quicker to drop by Pakuwon Batam for your shopping than sitting through the Causeway jam for your usual JB shopping malls.
What is Pakuwon Batam?
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Pakuwon Batam is set to be Batam’s newest and largest mall, taking up a whopping 12.4ha of land and having a total gross floor area of 286,000sqm. To give you a sense of its scale, this is bigger than any mall in Singapore and is around 3 times the size of ION Orchard.
Just Phase 1 of construction alone will include a 3,700sqm multipurpose plaza, 6 floors dedicated to delicacies and fresh seafood, 2 hotels with a combined 506 rooms, as well as 1 serviced apartment with 161 rooms .
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