Relieve that SW management has finally realised what is obviously not right/an eye sore at that place.

Less obvious but clearly affecting the prestige of SW as well as Brio's main entrance, is the finishing of the wall put up by Sector 7 to close up its original main entrance. The finishing is simply far too inferior. It does not fit with the quality of the facade at that area - which faces Brio's main entrance. The Deed of Mutual Covenant clearly mentioned the importance of maintaining facade quality. An unplastered wall, though painted, does not go with the facade there. I will raise this defect during my VP. Hope many others will do this as well. Otherwise SW management may not understand/appreciate the importance of wall finishing on facade beauty. Sector 7 may feel it is only there back wall. But it is along SW main pathway and facing Brio's main entrance.

Another thing would be the large covered green colour rubbish bin placed behind Sector 7. Occassionally I also see some black rubbish bags placed beside it as well. We must not allow that area to be gradually turned into a rubbish collection area for, I assume, Sector 7. Other than Sector 7, I cannot see any outlets placing their rubbish bins along any part of SW main pathway. I think it is not right that Sector 7 places its rubbish bin and sometime rubbish bags, at that spot. Please help to highlight this in defects form during VP. More voices are needed to make SW management and Sector 7 to understand this concern.

Excellent idea. There are lots of empty space there. Both Solace and Vio main entrance has a water feature. I do not know what SPS has in mind for Brio's main entrance. I agree a simple water feature there would certainly be very nice for Brio's main entrance and that part of SW. I will suggest this in my defects form. I hope many others will do the same.

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Fully agree with you.

I was just there. Viet restaurant seem to be doing so well that even the additional tables on the side walk are fully occupied with a queue waiting to grap the tables. See the photo for yourself.

Considering its condition, parking charges are very reasonable. Only RM1 for first 3 hours. Maximum charge is only RM2 per day. In addition there are more than 40 lifts from car park to retail or office level. No need to walk too far. You can find many signages of retail lots at the car park lift.

This post has been edited by a123: Mar 3 2013, 12:19 AM

If every evening crowd is like Friday and Saturday, then it would have overtaken the best Malls in KL.
Reality will determine the shops that are to boom or doom. So far there is only one shop at prime location that looks like they cannot compete/make it. If you only sell poor tasting and expensive foods coupled with poor service, difficult to survive even at the best of prime locations. It is an opportunity for late comers to quickly grab the location but often the tenant at prime location is asking for a huge premium to let go to others. I suppose it's their only way to recoup some losses. I know shop like Wong Kok is doing so well that their only regret is they often do not have enough tables to accomodate their SW customers. Padi House SW had invested substantially for two floors to ensure they do not run into the same situation as their Sri Petaling shop where it is often full house.

SW is an ideal location for air crews since it is not too far for main highway to KLIA/LCCT. Lots of reasonabily priced and clean F&B outlets (already more than 30 at last count!). This is another positive factor for SW.

The exit road from SW toward Bandar Puteri had a flash flood at 5pm today. No car could pass through. Cars got to turn around and travel against traffic flow to SW or up the U ramp towards Tesco/IOI. Be alert for flash there during heavy rain. Use the road behind SW to go to Bandar Puteri and beyond during heavy rain.

SW is slowly but surely becoming the place to give your family and friends a special treat every now and then, especially those living in Puchong and surrounding areas. At the moment 41 F&B outlets are already opened. Four more are under renovation. The status of another two more (Killiney and Italian restaurant/Amedio?) is unknown. Total of 47 F&B outlets. Getting very crowded, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings. At least 13 outlets are pub/bistro serving alcohols and are opened till 1am. Need to improve traffic flow within SW. Otherwise it is going to be difficult for residents to go to or leave their car parking bays during prime time!

This post has been edited by a123: Mar 19 2013, 06:11 PM

Assam House is at ground floor next to San Nae Deul.

Visitors complained there are no sign boards to indicate which block is Brio or Solace. Can someone help to point out where are the sign boards located?

Brio is a nice name. I thought R2 is only supposed to be the technical name for legal/planning purposes. Sound too low cost! Did not occur to me that there is no Brio sign board until pointed out by some first time visitors trying to find out which block is Brio.

I totally agree, especially the head of leasing department. In my personal experiece, other than a very helpful receptionist that I greatly appreciate, I can cleary see the tidak apa attitude of the supposedly executive staffs of the leasing department. Their poor performanc is no surprise at all to me. What I cannot understand is, why is the top management of a supposedly large and reputable developer such as SPS not doing anything to remedy their poor leasing performance for such a beautifully built Walk?

Whether it is Assam House, Barn, Wong Kok, Overseas or Kaseh the price is at about the same level as the set lunches offered by Barbera, Tappers and Horoscope. Lunch costs about RM10- RM14 inclusive of a simple drink/soup for one person.

Excellent idea. It should be paid for by the owner of the lot occupied by Sector 7 and Beer Factory. They have violated the deed of mutual covenant signed by all owners.



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I can see POD block owner are working hard to get things going for its block. However the owner of SW Mall and business hotel do not seem to be doing much during the last 1.5 years. With such hot weather in Malaysia, SW Mall cannot pick up unless its owner build a glass wall facing SW and air-cond the whole mall. Anyone has any ideas who own SW Mall and the business hotel? What a waste of resources!

This post has been edited by a123: May 15 2013, 02:40 PM

Just visited SW. Subway is going to be the first F&B outlet to open in SW Mall proper. Currently under renovation. Developer showroom is also under reno in SW Mall.

Good news - residents have a separate road to their car park. Need not go through SW ring road. However traffic from SW Mall end, will share the same exit road infront of resident car park.

Though it is a normal Wednesday evening (8.30pm), there are quite a large crowd at the popular F&B outlets such as Brussels, Muzeum, Padi House, Sector 7, Beer factory and A wave. Smaller but still noticeable crowd at Wong Kok, Overseas Cafe, Fullhoas, Abs.Viet, Sushi Tei, Tokyo Kitchen, Tappers, BMS Organics, 100C and Horoscope. Looks like, during week days, customers are visiting SW for higher end restaurants and pubs. It was almost full house at Brussels! I am not sure whether it is like that every week day.

JMB can prevent the formation of student hostels. It can make and enforce resonable indirect rules such as limiting the number of occupying families to no more than the number of bedrooms per unit. Example, no more than three biological families per three room unit. The will of a strong JMB to enforce the rules is even more important. Just take a look at Sector 7 and Beer Factory. They have changed their original front door facing Brio entrance into a horrible looking back entrance with impunity although the rules are clearly there to prevent this from happening from the very first Deed of mutual covenants signed by all owners!!!! Can we see there is a major problem with the current SW management and JMB that need to be fixed?

This post has been edited by a123: Jun 1 2013, 04:36 PM

Interesting argument. We have been paying the minimum charges although zero usage. Any one know what is the market norm for properties with bulk meter?

The apartmenst are zoned as residential. Thus hostels would be clearly illegal. Colleges are not smart if they rent the units under their name and call them as college hostels. It would be less obvious if ther rent the units with personal names and then let out the rooms. This is where resonable house rules made by JMB would help to prevent too many adults in one unit and that each resident behave decently.

Hostels are commercial operations. Require to meet a whole new set of rules and regulations. In particular fire safety rules are a lot more stringent. For example, there must be maps to indicate where you are and the nearest escape route in case of fire. Rooms require smoke alarms, fire extinguisher and water sprinkles would almost be mandatory, etc. SW apartments are neither zoned or built to be hostels. So official student hostels would clearly be illegal.

But what if a college would get some one to privately rent or even buy some units before sub letting rooms to students? Then the case is a lot more tricky. I think, for instance, years ago, MBPJ has some rules on the maximum number of occupants per house. But the numbers are often set quite high in order to be reasonable. It is going to be difficult to expect local councils to weed out unofficial student houses. It is almost beyong their scope of duty.

Let us examine the root reasons why many owners do not wish their apartment blocks to be populated by students, especially those from less developed nations. It is simply not reasonable for apartment units designed for small families to be swamped by five to nine adults. In particular foreign adults with little regard to Malaysian social etiquette/norm while sharing the same aprtment block. So really, race alone is not the real problem. But rather the behaviour norms brought in by some foreign students are often not exceptable to local communities. This is especially so with service apartments where many common facilities are shared. Consequently, property value would fall since locals would not like to live in those apartments any more.

A well represented and effective JMB to make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations would be an effective option at solving this problem. Yes it is unfair to ban owners from renting rooms to students. But at the same time it is also unfair to have many adults from any one unit to share the same common facilities designed for one or at most two families per unit. So why not bill the facilities maintenance and service charges based on the number of unrelated families in each unit. For example, for a two room unit, maximum of two families at RM0.25 psf/unit. Additional families at RM1.00 psf/unit/additional family. Actual fees can be culculated from the security access cards issued. This rule will prevent SW apartment from being too densly populated by unrelated occupants within a unit. It does not matter whether the occupants are executives or air hostesses. There will be additional charges for having more families per unit than a set number.

Above are simply suggestions that can be brought up to JMB and SW management for consideration to minimise potential student house problem at SW.