TEM Fat Hing Fung has teamed up with Cheung Kong and New World Development in an $800 million office, hotel and retail project in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
An 83,000 sq ft site, owned by Tem Fat, will be turned into a comprehensive building featuring office, hotel and retail space, with car parking facilities.
Gross floor is estimated at 659,640 sq ft, of which 250,640 sq ft will be office space, 199,000 sq ft retail space and the remaining 210,000 sq ft a hotel.
Tem Fat chairman Raymond Chan Fat-chu yesterday said the project was another push by the firm to diversify into businesses other than its core operations - refining, moulding and trading of gold bullion and jewellery.
Equity among the three partners in the venture was distributed according to their respective shares in the property, he said.
The hotel will be developed and shared two-third by Tem Fat and one-third by New World, while the three partners will have equal interests in development of the car park, office and retail areas.