Amcorp Mall
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The Amcorp Mall is a mall opened in December 1997 and situated in Petaling Jaya
Petaling Jaya
Petaling Jaya is a Malaysian city originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur comprising mostly residential and some industrial areas. It is located in the Petaling district of Selangor with an area of approximately 97.2 km². On 20 June 2006, Petaling Jaya was granted a...

, Selangor
Selangor
Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...

, Malaysia, located opposite the Taman Jaya LRT station
Taman Jaya LRT station
Taman Jaya is an elevated rapid transit station in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, forming part of the Kelana Jaya Line...

 which is served by the Kelana Jaya Line
Kelana Jaya Line
The Kelana Jaya Line is a medium-capacity rail transport system and one of the three rail transit lines in the Kuala Lumpur Rail Transit System operated by RapidKL Rail network...

, operated by Rapid KL
Rapid KL
RapidKL, short for Rangkaian Pengangkutan Integrasi Deras Sdn Bhd, is a government-owned company which was formed in 2004 as part of the restructuring of the public transport system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital....

. It is also located in the proximity of the Petaling Jaya Hilton Hotel, the Armada Hotel and a major A&W
A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants, distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W was arguably the first successful food franchise company, starting franchises in 1921 in California. Today it has franchise locations throughout the world, serving a typical...

 outlet. The mall also houses the headquarters of Amcorp Berhad, a local bank.

Amcorp Mall is fairly deserted during weekdays but is very busy on weekends mainly due to the flea market
Flea market
A flea market or swap meet is a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered. It may be indoors, such as in a warehouse or school gymnasium; or it may be outdoors, such as in a field or under a tent...

 run by the mall management company every weekend and to a lesser extent, auction
Auction
An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder...

s that are organised from time-to-time. The mall area comprises 5 levels of retail stores and restaurants, 2 basement parking levels (B1 & B2 floors) in which the parking rate is RM2 for first 4 hours and RM1 for the subsequent hours. There are also 5 above-ground parking floors. In addition, there is a large outdoor ground floor parking lot facing the mall with a parking rate of RM2 for first hour and RM1 for the subsequent hours.

Adjoined to this mall are 2 18-storey office towers called Amcorp Tower and PJ Tower, and a 27-storey commercial-cum-serviced apartment block which was completed and opened for occupation in 2005.
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