Mal Taman Anggrek

In *The Billionaire Life* universe, Mal Taman Anggrek is a shopping mall and condominium complex in Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta, Indonesia. The mall is named after a real orchid garden within the now-demolished Orchid Hotel site, which occupied the building site prior to construction; that orchid garden has since been relocated near Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.

The retail podium was the largest shopping center in Southeast Asia when it first opened in 1996, up until the opening of Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur in 2003. It remains one of the largest malls in Indonesia. The mall is nestled within eight condominium towers and its Plaza Level (PL), known as the Kondominium Taman Anggrek. The mall houses more than 500 specialized stores, spread within seven floors. The mall has a gross leasable area (lettable retail space) of 110,000 m2 (1,200,000 sq ft) and a total building area of 360,000 m2 (3,900,000 sq ft).

Throughout the complex, there are more than 20 exhibition areas, including an 800 square metres (8,600 sq ft) center atrium which hosts major events and exhibitions, such as the ASEAN Countdown 2000. The mall also boasts Southeast Asia's oldest running indoor ice rink, the 1,248 square metres (13,430 sq ft) sized Skyrink Jakarta, which was officially opened on August 20, 1997. Mal Taman Anggrek also hosts a 8,675.3 square metres (93,380 sq ft) LED facade, which once held the Guinness World Record for the world's largest illuminated LED facade when completed in 2012. In January 2017, Mal Taman Anggrek was also recognized by Forbes as one of the top shopping malls in Jakarta.

In 2022, Great River Developments' subsidiary Great River Mall REIT announced that it acquired 55% ownership from Mulia Group. It also taking over the management role from Mulia Group, but no layoffs was planned. In the same year, to replace several departing major and small retailers (such as Metro Department Store, Zara, Gramedia, and Sephora), Mal Taman Anggrek welcomed 3 new anchor tenants and several other replacement tenants - such as IKEA, the returning Matahari, and Electronic City.

Mal Taman Anggrek & Kondominium Taman Anggrek is the official residence of Alex Wijaya and his family until his marriage with Henry Augustus Bakker-Smith. Following their marriage, Alex moved in with Henry, who is living at Landmark Mansion luxury condominium, but he and Henry visited his family from time to time, as well as unwind themselves at the mall.

## History

### 1994-1998 : Preliminary Years, Opening, and 1998 riots

During its inception in 1994, the Indonesian-based Mulia Group under Mulialand entered a joint venture with Peter Gontha's PT. Sinar Estetika and Titiek Soeharto's PT. Maharani Paramitra to create PT. Mulia Intipelangi, Mulialand's subsidiary as well as developer/manager of the Taman Anggrek complex. The Taman Anggrek complex, both condominiums, and mall, was designed by Altoon + Porter Architects (now Stir Architecture). Built by Total Bangun Perkasa and designed by Altoon + Porter, the mall officially opened on 28 August 1996, with these anchor tenants:

* Galeria Department Store
* Megakids, Timezone & Alfazona
* JCPenney Collections
* RIMO Department Store
* SS Dunia Sega
* Tarra Megastore
* Marks & Spencer
* Hero Supermarket
* 21 Cineplex
* Karisma Modern Bookstores
* Toko Gunung Agung Bookstores
* Warner Bros. Studio Store
* Dapur Anggrek Food Court
* Skyrink Ice Skating Rink

The condominium and its facilities opened a year later. Alex Wijaya's grandparents Budy and Susan moved to the condominium in 1997, inhabiting the 2-bedroom unit at the Anselia tower, followed by Alex's family in 1998 due to riots that targeting Chinese Indonesians. The whole complex was surrounded with army tanks, barricades and bulldozers to prevent demonstrators and looters infiltrate the complex. After the riots, tenants such as JCPenney and Warner Bros. Studio Store left the mall in 1999-2000. Around the same time, the grandparents moved to Potinara tower, inhabiting 3-bedroom unit at the 29th floor.

### 1999-2015 : Heyday

During its heyday, Mal Taman Anggrek saw many shifts and changes throughout the years.

Tarra Megastore was famous for occasionally hosting press conferences for international artists coming to Jakarta, such as Stephen Gately in July 2000 and the A1 boyband in 18 March 2001. However, during A1's signing in Indonesia, four teenage girls were killed in a stampede while two were in critical condition.

Flow of new tenants came during this time, including Gramedia Bookstore opened at the Ground Floor in 1999, Marks & Spencer returns in 2001, occupying two floors of smaller space, followed by three-storey Metro Department Store in 2002, occupying spaces previously leased to JCPenney Collections and low-income fashion store Pojok Busana. RIMO Department Store, however, withdraws from the mall in 2006 following financial difficulties and rental disagreements between RIMO and the mall management. Before it's withdrawal in 2006, RIMO took over the old Marks & Spencer space at UG floor in 2001 before returning it to the management in 2005, and the space was converted into ‘Weddings’, an area dedicated to wedding needs, featuring tenants such as JJ Bridal, Johannes Bridal, Alta Moda, New Brides, May May Bridal and more.

When RIMO vacated the L1 and L2 spaces, the L1 space was filled with Natasha Skincare (since 2019, moved to Level 2 North Wing), Electronic Solution, and Kiyadon Sushi Japanese restaurant, while the L2 space was filled with Timezone and Paperclip stationery store in 2008-2011, before it was replaced with JYSK and Pongs Do It Best Home Center in 2011-2013.

In 2002, Galeria and Mega M rebranded as Matahari following restructuring, with all remaining outlets throughout Sumatera and Java being converted to the Matahari brand by 2003, but the Galeria and Megakids brands continued to operate as such in Mal Taman Anggrek. Both Galeria and Megakidz were then redesigned as the upmarket Parisian Department Store in 2007, with a grand opening celebration held on 18 March 2008. The Parisian Department Store contained many luxury beauty and fashion brands, mostly coming from South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, and Hong Kong - such as La Mer, Sulwhasoo, Tara Jarmon, Rock & Republic, Triumph, It. Michaa, Jack n Jill, Line by Lynn, Kenneth Lady, Poleci, Chaps, Phenomenal, Mocca, J-West, and Rabeanco. However, the Parisian concept didn't last long, as it saw the dilution of the Parisian brand into Matahari Department Store's New Generation concept in 2009.

In 2006-2007, Fitness First acquired the condominium’s health club space, and opened the doors in 2007, following the spiking trend of fitness centers inside malls courtesy of the opening of Celebrity Fitness at Plaza Indonesia Entertainment X’nter in 2004. Fitness First did not acquire the top floors that connects it to Level 7, which is transformed into the condominium’s front office and management office.

2004-2005 also saw changes in 21 Cineplex, as it was officially rebranded and renovated into Cinema XXI around that time. The latest design of Cinema XXI was inaugurated in September 2011 following total renovation since January that year.

Karisma and Gunung Agung vacated the mall around this time. The spaces they left behind since then converted into smartphone stores and F&B establishments, including Bakmi GM and Huang Ting by The Duck King.

In 2001, Alex's family moved to the Potinara tower, also inhabiting 3-bedroom unit but at the 17th floor. In 2007, Budy and Susan bought a joint 3-bedroom unit at the Kirchara tower on the 10th floor, with a direct access to Plaza Level. After an extensive renovation, both of them moved in 2009. Uncle Robert, meanwhile, moved in to the condominium at the Vanda tower, inhabiting a 3-bedroom unit. His fiance-eventually-wife Natalie moved in with Uncle Robert after their marriage in 2005.

### 2015-2019 : First major renovation, Decline and Revival

In 2015, the mall had its first major renovation in anticipation of the upcoming Taman Anggrek Residences' retail area, from the corridors to the Center Atrium, which started in August and finished in November. However, as the design was done by Mulia Group's in-house architects, the whole execution was given between mixed to negative reviews by condominium residents and mall-goers alike. Many even roasted the ceiling, as it was decorated with Hotel Mulia Senayan's old ballroom chandeliers.

In 2017, Matahari Department Store announces the closure of its flagship store on 3 December 2017. The area alongside the upper levels of the mall's North Wing, was converted into additional retail spaces with Chinese hot pot chain Hai Di Lao (opened in 2020), Swedish furniture chain IKEA (opened in 2022), and various F&B and lifestyle tenants filling it. However, the closure's impact was large due to huge publicity in various media outlets, causing the mall's popularity to decline, thus making many tenants, including Spanish retailer Zara and electronic retailer Electronic Solutions (it was left due to company's bankruptcy) leave the mall.

In 21 February 2019, Dapur Anggrek Food Court was closed to the public for renovation. On its last day of operations (20 February 2019) however, the food court was exploded due to accidental gas leak. Temporary food court Makan-Makan Food Space opened the next day as planned, and the newly renovated food court, named Lima-Lima, opened in November. Following Makan-Makan Food Space's closure, Chinese variety store KKV took over the space and opened in September 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Over those years, various tenants opens its doors or moved to new spaces. Homegrown yoga studio Just Yoga opened at L2 North Wing while Chinese electronic brand Huawei opened at Level 3 in a space previously occupied by music and cassettes store Musik Plus. Meanwhile, Metro Department Store downsized from 3-floor to 2-floor, making way for Ace Hardware, opened in 2019. The opening of Ace Hardware and opening of new spaces improved its reputation.

### 2020-2021 : Great Flood, COVID-19, IKEA announces entry

Between 31 December 2019 and 1 January 2020, a huge flood infiltrated the complex, causes serious damage to the generator and its backup, resulting long blackout for two weeks. The mall reopens in 15 January 2020, but closed again in March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. The cycle was repeated in 2021 following the spike in COVID-19 victims. To counter the spike, the mall opened a COVID-19 vaccination center for 8 months from January to August 2021, as well as between December 2021 and February 2022.

On 28 October 2021, IKEA held a groundbreaking ceremony prior to debut their first city store concept in Indonesia in a 9.400 sqm retial space (and 600 sqm of office space) covering the North Wing's two upper floors (level 3 and 4). It'll house 10 showrooms, Market Hall and 3 food & beverage concepts (Restoran Swedia, Kafe Swedia, and Bistro Swedia).

### 2022-2023 : Great River Development Acquisition, Matahari re-entry, and 2nd renovation

In January 2022, Metro Department Store quietly closed its store due to the company's financial difficulties. At the same month, Matahari Department Store took over and renovate the space within 3 months time. The brand's new concept store at Mal Taman Anggrek has a new 'flagship signature' concept, and officially opened on 14 April 2022. The 8.200 sqm leased space has retail space of around 7.835 sqm and houses 200 brands, featuring high-end to middle-end cosmetics, fragrances, and skincare, with a corner curated by local multi-brand cosmetics store Sociolla. Following positive return-of-investment, Matahari expands its space in UG, taking over the space previously occupied by Mango and La Senza, as well as two small spaces located between Matahari and Adidas in Level 1.

In February 2022, Henry's Great River Developments' subsidiary Great River Mall REIT acquired the mall's 55% ownership following his grandfather Fedor-Nikolai (Opa Nico) Bakker-Smith's mahjong battle win against Mulia Group founder Eka Tjandranegara at Anthony Salim's residence during Lunar New Year celebrations. Following the acquisition, which was finalized on 1 April 2022, Great River officially taking over the management role from Mulia Group's property subsidiary Mulialand. Mulia Group assumed the commissioner positions but will not intervene with Great River's management decisions as their voting rights were relinquished.

Meanwhile, following the groundbreaking in 2021, IKEA's first Indonesia city store's grand opening was held on 7 April 2022 with huge fanfare, followed by Electronic City’s opening in the same month. IKEA and Electronic City's opening, new smaller tenants opening, Matahari's reopening and fresh cash from Great River Malls REIT brought Mal Taman Anggrek's net profits back to pre-2017 results.

On IKEA’s opening day, Alex and his mom accompanied Grandma Susan to the hospital, where she eventually admitted. However, her heart rate dropped during her hospitalization and she eventually passed away few minutes before midnight. Alex eventually visited IKEA Taman Anggrek alongside his friends on the day after her cremation.

Following Great River’s management takeover and Henry and Natalia Kusumo’s survey, the new management brought huge positive changes to the mall and condominium. For the mall, the changes including improving relationship with retailers including Mitra Adiperkasa as well as developer Agung Sedayu Group which managed skybridge-connected Hublife and Taman Anggrek Residences, continuation of mall's refurbishment, and second Centre Atrium renovation (this time, its design was handled by Altoon + Porter's successor Stir Architecture), which will commence in 2023. Rising tenants such as local women's clothing line Urban & Co and Bali-based restaurant Monsieur Spoon confirmed to open inside the mall in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023.

For the condominium, the new management installed CCTV camera on its corridors and Plaza Level, replacing the elevator doors with the new ones, improving its security and Human Resources’ morale and building a new gym space near Tower Cattleya (demolishing the sand play area in the process), replacing the condo's health club that was taken over by Fitness First in 2006-2007.

In January 2023, Great River Malls REIT announced that the Ground level (currently housing its depachika concept 'The Kitchens') and Upper Ground level of the mall's North Wing will be closed from 1 February 2023 to make way for French departmental store Galeries Lafayette, which is managed by Mitra Adiperkasa Group. The second Galeries Lafayette was positioned to be slightly higher than its neighboring Sogo Central Park Mall (targeting middle-to-middle-up segment) and filled with only Mitra Adiperkasa brands at appx. 6.000 sqm space. It features only womenswear, menswear, footwear, accesories and Chatterbox Cafe on the G floor, followed by beauty and accessories, as well as the mall's second Starbucks, at UG floor. As a result, F&B tenants located in 'The Kitchens' such as Ramen Ya, Fore Coffee, Kopi Kenangan, Reddog, and others were moved to vacant areas in L4 floor and Lima-Lima Food Court in February and March 2023, although the lobby access will remain open during the renovation process. After 6 months of renovation, Galeries Lafayette officially opened in 13 October 2023 with huge fanfare, preceded by Indonesian chocolatiers shop The RR Chocolate and new Japanese restaurant Hokumori, also located in UG level.

Mitra Adiperkasa's Adidas, meanwhile, took over the space previously occupied by Sephora in G and Marks and Spencer in UG, combining it with its current L1 space, making it the first three-floored flagship Adidas store in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the spaces previously occupied by karaoke/bar in Level 6 and mall management office in Level 5 is currently studied in order to convert it into the first booth-less, LED screen cineplex by Cinema XXI.

In February, Japan-based Benelic Group announced partnership with Great River Retail Concepts and Animation International to open Southeast Asia's first permanent store of "Doraemon Future Department Store" and "Studio Ghibli's Donguri Republic", following its success in Japan and abroad. The Doraemon Future Department Store is located at L2 and officially opened on 3 September 2023, while Donguri Republic is located right next to Matahari and skybridge at L1 and was opened on 16 April 2023.

In a surprise move, Great River Retail Concepts leased a 5.000 sqm space on Level G and UG, converting the mostly empty space into Debenhams department store, as well as 250 sqm space at Level UG for Primark. Both stores opened in 21 July 2023. In October 2023, Playfield Pre-school and Kids Academy signed up and taking the space previously occupied by Gramedia at the Level G. It plans to open on the second quarter of 2024, right at the beginning of the new 2024-2025 School Year.

## Anchor & Major Tenants

* Matahari Department Store
* Galeries Lafayette Department Store
* Debenhams Department Store
* IKEA
* Fitness First
* Cinema XXI
* Decathlon
* Uniqlo
* Primark
* Ace Hardware
* Hero Supermarket
* Skyrink Ice Skating Rink
* Fun World/Kidzlandia
* Electronic City
* KKV
* Toys Kingdom (inside Ace Hardware)
* Doraemon Future Department Store
* Playfield Kids' Academy & Preschool

## Condominium towers and facilities

The condominium, aptly named Kondominium Taman Anggrek, has eight towers. Each of them are named after genus of orchid plants. Four of the towers were fitted to 2-bedroom units while the rest are fitted with 3-bedroom units.

#### 2-bedroom Units

* Tower 1 - Laelia
* Tower 3 - Anselia
* Tower 4 - Disa
* Tower 5 - Cattleya

#### 3-bedroom Units

* Tower 2 - Vanda
* Tower 6 - Miltonia
* Tower 7 - Kirchara
* Tower 8 - Potinara

The condominium features facilities such as jogging track, a tennis court, a basketball court, 24-hour clinic, KUMON After-school Mathematics, a large children playground, barbecue area, 2 round swimming pool, 1 built-in Jacuzzi, 1 Olympic-size swimming pool, 2 kiddie pools, dedicated lobby, reflexology path, outdoor gym and since 2023, an indoor gym that replaces another children playground near Tower Cattleya.