Ampang Park shopping centre isn't exactly on top of everyone's list of to-visit places (unless you work around KLCC and want McDonald's for lunch), but that might change with news of its impending demolition. The Malaysian Insider today reported that Ampang Park, which is one of KL's oldest shopping centres, will 'soon be demolished to make way for the Ampang Park MRT station'. No exact date was announced, but the article did report that the land on which Ampang Park stood is currently in the process of 'being acquired by the government under the Land Acqusition Act 1960'. The site is needed to construct the underground Ampang Park MRT station – part of the future MRT Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya Line (SSP Line) – which will require 'structures on the surface to be demolished'. Sadly, that structure is Ampang Park.
So maybe it's not the shiniest of shopping centres (it has been around since 1973), but Ampang Park does provide a nice alternative to Suria KLCC's extravagant prices: a modest but well-stocked grocer, a cheap but decent(ish) karaoke bar, stalls selling baju kurung, camera shops, and quite a few money changers with good rates. And let's not leave out the big McDonald's that's the only one of its kind in the area... Okay, now we're really sad.