SIM LIM TOWER @ Jalan Besar has been a FREEHOLD commercial landmark for about 158 retail shops since 1980s. It has weathered the storms of retail modernisation, standing tall at the corner of cross-road intersections in 15-storey height of mixed development with 4-storey retail shops and 11-storey commercial offices with sheltered parking spaces at three storeys for its proprietary owners and tenants. It thrives on its founding theme of being an Electronic and Electrical City specialising on small replacement parts and components and finished goods for the households and the electronic and audio-visual industries and trades.
Anchoring itself as a mall shop is a retail space of 538 sq ft with good glass frontage and own sliding glass door and secured affront with its own two roller shutter doors. Internal space is squarish and unblocked, pre-partitioned for retail activities at its front and, through a door opening, at its back for storage or office or sound room. “As is where is” this retail point comes with some storage spaces above ceiling boards for very light non-hazardous retail materials.
Across the roads is the newly-opened Downtown Line 2 Rochor MRT Station, with sheltered walkways two minutes to Sim Lim Square. Come Year 2017 or earlier when announced, the Jalan Besar Downtown Line 3 MRT Station will be opened next to SIM LIM TOWER with surfaced URA parkings aplenty around.
Indeed, because of their concourse-facing location sited near to the mall central escalators, this retail mall unit of SIM LIM TOWER @ Jalan Besar is rare in location-location-location search for established retail shop, WITH OR WITHOUT TENANCY, outside the City’s Central Business District and just outside the Bencoolen Street and Rochor Road ERP gantry points.