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The Tradewinds Square Tower was a proposed megatall skyscraper located along
Jalan Sultan Ismail Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road is an urban and municipal ring road system of Kuala Lumpur consisting of Jalan Sultan Ismail (Jalan Treacher), Jalan Imbi, Jalan Shaw and Federal Route 1 (Jalan Kuching, Jalan Sultan Hisamuddin (Victory Avenue), Ja ...
in
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, Malaysia. The building was in planning stage with
Tradewinds Corporation Berhad The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. The trade winds blow mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere ...
as the developer. It would have stood at a height of with 110 floors. It was expected to be completed in 2022, but construction was halted in 2018.The whole integrated development was previously known as Tradewinds Centre, before being renamed to Tradewinds Square. The development was expected to be built on the former Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel and Kompleks Antarabangsa site which were demolished in 2013. The company estimated that the RM6 billion ($1.37 billion USD) project would have taken seven years to complete, with construction expected to commence in early 2013. The development built up area was about 420,000 m2 (4,500,000 sq ft) which sits on a 7-acre freehold site between
Jalan Sultan Ismail Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road is an urban and municipal ring road system of Kuala Lumpur consisting of Jalan Sultan Ismail (Jalan Treacher), Jalan Imbi, Jalan Shaw and Federal Route 1 (Jalan Kuching, Jalan Sultan Hisamuddin (Victory Avenue), Ja ...
and Jalan Perak. It would have comprised Grade A corporate offices, serviced apartments, a 6-star hotel, and a retail podium. In 2016, the
plot ratio Floor area ratio (FAR) is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built. It is often used as one of the regulations in city planning along with the building-to-land ratio. Th ...
for the development was increased to 16. Since 2020 the site serves as a parking lot.


Public transport

The tower and its development would have been accessible via the
Raja Chulan Monorail station Raja Chulan Monorail station is a Malaysian elevated monorail train station that serves as a part of the Kuala Lumpur Monorail (KL Monorail), located in Kuala Lumpur and opened alongside the rest of the monorail service on 31 August 2003. The Ra ...
on the KL Monorail line.


See also

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References


External links


Tradewinds Corporation tower webpage
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