Not one tower but 22 blocks of boutique offices, laid out around the central park with its water features. This is the low-rise part of the skyline.
A company can take a whole small block here, which is the thing the tall towers cannot offer.
", "sort_order": 0 }, { "title": "Green rating", "body": "Phase 2 was awarded Green Building Index (GBI) Provisional Gold — Malaysia's own green building rating, where Gold is the second-highest of four bands.
What earned it: double-glazed reflective glass, motion and carbon-dioxide sensors that switch lighting and air off in empty rooms, solar panels and rainwater harvesting. For a tenant the point is the service-charge bill, not the certificate.
", "sort_order": 1 }, { "title": "Who is inside", "body": "A mix of local and international firms rather than one anchor. Names that have taken space here include Takaful Ikhlas, MEPS, F-Secure and Melilea.
UOA Holdings — the developer of the whole of Bangsar South — has its own headquarters in this building, which is a fair signal of how it rates the address.
", "sort_order": 2 }, { "title": "Getting there", "body": "Covered link bridge to Kerinchi LRT station, the Bangsar South shuttle, and the Federal, NPE and Sprint highways.
The Horizon sits on the eastern side of the development, so it is the closer half to Old Klang Road and the further half from the mall.
", "sort_order": 3 }, { "title": "Where it sits", "body": "The Horizon is the block marked on the eastern edge of the master plan, wrapped around the park rather than facing the main road.
That position is why its blocks are low: they sit inside the development, not on its boundary.
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The suites were deliberately sized small. The target buyer was a firm of a few people that wanted to own its office instead of renting one.
", "sort_order": 0 }, { "title": "Who is inside", "body": "Small and medium firms, heavily weighted to technology and professional services.
The reason is the address rather than the building: the commercial half of Bangsar South holds MSC Malaysia Cybercentre status, a government designation that lets a qualifying technology tenant claim tax and hiring incentives. A tenant loses those incentives by moving somewhere without the status, which is what keeps occupancy steady here.
", "sort_order": 1 }, { "title": "Getting there", "body": "A covered link bridge reaches Kerinchi LRT station on the Kelana Jaya line, so the walk works in the rain.
Do not confuse this with The Vertical Corporate Towers next door — two 40-storey buildings (UOA Corporate Tower and Corporate Tower B) leased whole-floor to larger companies.
Same name, same developer, different product: Business Suites are bought by small firms, Corporate Towers are leased by big ones. A listing that says only \"The Vertical\" is ambiguous — check the floor count.
", "sort_order": 3 }, { "title": "Where it sits", "body": "The two Business Suites towers are the pair marked THE VERTICAL on the development's own master plan, on the northern side of the central park.
The Horizon's low blocks are to the right of them, and the retail at Nexus and The Sphere sits between the two.
", "sort_order": 4 } ] }, { "name": "VE Hotel & Residence", "category": "hotel", "summary": "A 30-storey four-star hotel that opened in July 2016 with 337 rooms, plus 90 furnished one and two-bedroom serviced residences with their own check-in and lifts.", "tabs": [ { "title": "The building", "body": "One 30-storey tower holding two different things.
The residences have their own check-in counter and their own lifts, so a resident never queues behind hotel guests. That separation is the reason the two can share one address without either feeling like the other.
", "sort_order": 0 }, { "title": "Opening and brand", "body": "Opened July 2016 as a four-star hotel, and it was the flagship of the VE brand at launch rather than one property in an existing chain.
It is the only hotel inside Bangsar South proper, which is the fact that matters commercially: a company holding a meeting in one of the office towers has one walkable choice.
", "sort_order": 1 }, { "title": "What is inside", "body": "The facilities sit together on a lifestyle podium on level 5 rather than being scattered through the tower.
A serviced residence here is a different asset from a plain condominium, and the difference cuts both ways.
For it: hotel management is on site, short-stay demand comes from the offices around it, and the unit arrives furnished.
Against it: a serviced residence usually sits on commercial title, so the utility tariffs and the assessment are charged at commercial rates and the monthly maintenance is higher than a plain condominium's. Price the holding cost before the rent.
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