Sime Darby’s “Safe City Initiative” in Ara Damansara
Source: TheEdge
Pictures by HN
PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Property will launch its latest residential project in Ara Damansara township in October.
Sime Darby Property managing director Tunku Datuk Putra Badlishah said on July 21 the Seri Pilmoor project is a gated and guarded development community.
The project would comprise of semi-detached and bungalow houses, he told reporters at the launch of its “Safe City” programme at Ara Damansara.
Home Affairs Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammudin Hussein and Deputy Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar officiated at the ceremony.
Sime Darby’s “Safe City” initiatives in Ara Damansara include the construction of a RM1.1-million police station manned by at least four policemen at any one time.
The station has a RM2.2 million CCTV security system linked to 22 solar-powered cameras and is also linked to the Petaling Jaya police district headquarters. The developer also donated three vehicles for the police station’s use.
Tunku Putra Badlishah said the new security features would be a value-added proposition for the residents and homeowners of Ara Damansara.
Its other on-going projects in the township include Ara Hill comprising of medium-rise condominiums and low-rise villas, to be completed by year-end and also the Oasis office and retail development launched in June.
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That tiny polis stesyen costs 1.1M? Hmm… must take a look inside, maybe we can find some gold plated items in there.
The police station itself may look small (my guesstimate under 3000 sqft at the most) but the piece of land on which it was built is at least a quarter acre i.e. approx 4 units of 22×75 (again a guesstimate sodon’t quote me word for word). Likely that the tab of RM1.1million took into the consideration the value of the land set aside by sime?
Also, given that it has a network of connections to monitor all the cctvs, its likely that a fair chunk went into footing the cost of these electrical works & cabling.
The station is approx 1,900 sq ft. The land is in the region of 2.5 acres. If i remember correctly, Sime Darby is committed to provide 2 or 3 blocks of flats as police quarters which i assume will be built in due course on that piece of land.
The CCTV cost came up to something like RM2.2 million and the cars, building, land and future buildings come up to RM1.8 million.
Sime Darby must be given due credit for taking the initiative and being the first developer to truly take into account the security needs of Ara Damansara and taking appropriate steps to do something about and most importantly to cough up the huge finances required without complaints.
No doubt the cynical among us will comment that it will help promote sales but personally I am very happy with what Sime Darby has done and is still doing to improve the lifestyle of the residents of AD.
I have already emailed SIME DARBY if they can provide us more detailed information, not sure if they will reply or not.
Hannah,
You are right. The timing of the CCTV initiative runs too close to the upcoming launch of the very high-end residential units. It is probably meant for existing residents AND future residents!
It does help with the property prices though BUT I have seen too many grand projects being launched, only to be neglected after a couple of months. Let’s hope this project is not one of those.
I would like to put forward an idea for consideration with regard to this topic.
As mentioned, Sime Darby has taken a major step in providing us with pretty decent security infrastructure. It is up to AD residents to ensure that it continues to work and not fail due to lack of commitment and participation.
I do not know what the “Balai Polis Ara Damansara’s” stand is but perhaps all the RAs can join together (or even individually RAs take turns) to provide them with back up. For example maybe a Rukun Tetangga like structure where residents work hand in hand with the police to monitor the area. As they mentioned, there are 13,000+ residents and only 6 policemen to take care of the area. Maybe the RAs can help to take up the slack ? I for one will propose this to my RA when we next meet.
Had a closer look this morning and there is a big piece of land at the back of polis station likely to be for building a few blocks of apartments for the staff. The land size from front to back is approx 240ft and breadth is approx 130ft. So the land area is 31K sq ft or 3/4 acres. So the 1.1M price tag is definitely for the piece of land + the station.