Updated: Mayland's Dorsett Place Waterfront

Studio units specialists, Mayland is back with their latest launch, the Dorsett Place Waterfront at Subang Jaya's edge of the Subang Ria lake gardens. This parkland has been controversial. Owned by Sime Darby, they've been carving parts off the green lung park to construct the expansion of Subang Jaya Medical Center. And just before the 2008 elections, Sime Darby seeked a development order from the previous state government to develop up to 30% of the park for residential as well as commercial purposes. Of course, the land being Sime Darby's they think they have every right what they want to do with it. But not according to many purchasers of the few early phases of Subang Jaya. These purchasers claim that they were enticed by Sime to purchase their plots back then with the promise of this green lung. Now it seems the "promise" is to be broken when money is to be made. So, this became an election issue and the previous as well as current state government has decided to hold back on the approval to develop.

Mayland's plot is at the edge of this controversial park. Unlike Sime Darby, their plot is much more straightforward. Couple of years ago, Mayland took over the Sheraton Towers hotel and rebranded it as their trademark Grand Dorsett. This obviously gave them the valuable car park plot adjacent to the convention center of the hotel.

This car park is to be demolished and the serviced apartment takes over. Typical as Mayland be, there will be over 2,000 units built into these 2 towers. Little info is provided as yet, there will be 10 types:

TYPE A-410 SF

TYPE B1-500SF

TYPE B2-550SF
TYPE C1-543 SF
TYPE C2-588 SF

TYPE D1

TYPE D2

TYPE E1

TYPE E2
TYPE DUPLEX A-919 SF

TYPE DUPLEX B

Prices starting from about RM275k... that is after the 2% + 10% discount during the preview this weekend starting 23rd March 2012.

Location wise, this is debatable. There is only one very congested access into Subang Jaya SS12 where this project will be located. The lake is a very nice spot for fishing, jogging or early morning walks. The 2 hotels here, the Holiday Villa and Grand Dorsett are quite well subscribed and there is a popular medical center right next door. As of now, everytime Grand Dorsett's convention center hosts an event, be it a wedding or a ceremony, the whole area becomes a havoc with haphazard parking and various kinds of violations, stress included. So, it will be interesting to see how such a high density project gets approval.