Pusat Bandar Damansara as seen from SPRINT highway

Pusat Bandar Damansara (English: Damansara Town Centre) is a township in the

Segambut Segambut is a sub-district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The federal constituency represented in the Dewan Rakyat is Segambut (federal constituency). From the high-end condominiums of Mont Kiara and Sri Hartamas to the middle-class areas of Tam ...

constituency of

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. The original buildings making up the township were constructed between 1981 and 1984, and were demolished in 2016 for new development.

Background

Offices in the original buildings of Damansara Town Centre were occupied by government ministries, departments and other private corporations such as Damansara Realty Berhad, Indah Water Konsortium, HELP University College and

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(J-Corp). Department of Immigration Malaysia and Ministry of Housing, and Local Governments Malaysia used to have their offices here and have since moved to

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, while passport renewal services were relocated to

Pudu Sentral The Pudu Sentral ''(formerly Puduraya Terminal ())'' is the main local service bus terminus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was opened on 2 October 1976. Long-distance buses no longer arrive and leave from Pudu Sentral with these instead moved ...

several years ago. Restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets were located on the ground floor. During the upgrading of Jalan Damansara into Sprint Expressway's Damansara Link in 2000, the town centre became an "island" between separate carriageways. In 2011, the ''Twins@Damansara Heights'' condominium block opened, the first of many high rise buildings to come. In 2014 it was announced that the original buildings of Damansara Town Centre will be demolished and redeveloped as office buildings, apartments, a hotel and a mall which was later known as Pavilion Damansara Heights, the sister of the Pavilion Mall in

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in downtown Kuala Lumpur.

Access

Public transport

Damansara Town Centre lends its name to, and is served by, the Pusat Bandar Damansara and Semantan MRT stations. These stations once served as the only connection between the Kajang MRT Line and KL Sentral by rapidKL bus T819, while waiting for opening of the Semantan-

Kajang Kajang is a city in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia, located southeast of Kuala Lumpur. Kajang, along with much of Hulu Langat District, is governed by the Kajang Municipal Council. Kajang town is located on the eastern banks of the L ...

stretch in July 2017. Besides the aforementioned T819 route, the MRT station also serves as a bus hub for rapidKL buses connecting Damansara Town Centre to

Sri Hartamas Sri Hartamas (Golden Estates in English language, English) is an affluent residential township in the Segambut constituency of the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Postal codes in Malaysia, zip and postal code is 50480 or 51200. ...

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and the

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' Bandaraya station.

List of roads

* Jalan Damanlela * Jalan Damansutera * Jalan Damansari * Jalan Damansuria

References

Suburbs in Kuala Lumpur Demolished buildings and structures in Malaysia Buildings and structures demolished in 2016 {{Malaysia-geo-stub