Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Petaling Jaya for industry
Petaling Jaya was Malaysia’s first planned township, laid out from 1952 on the old Effingham Estate rubber land to take the pressure off a crowded Kuala Lumpur next door. It has since grown into one of the country’s most industrialised cities. It covers about 97.2 sq km in the Petaling District of Selangor, is run by the Petaling Jaya City Council (Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya, MBPJ) and was granted full city status in 2006.
Its industrial roots run deep. From the 1950s, factory lots were laid out across the Federal Highway in the northern half of the town, and PJ became a base for household-name manufacturers. Seventy years on it is a mature, tightly connected industrial address. It is the kind of established Klang Valley location where new, purpose-built industrial stock is now hard to come by.
Access & logistics
Built around the port road
The freight artery
Petaling Jaya sits on the Federal Highway, Malaysia’s first expressway, a 45 km dual carriageway built to link Kuala Lumpur to the national port at Klang. Widened to six lanes through the PJ stretch, it is still the direct road from the town to Port Klang, which makes it the spine any goods-based operation here runs on. The same road threads the Klang Valley conurbation together, from KL through PJ to Shah Alam, Subang Jaya and Klang.
The expressway grid
Around that spine sits one of the densest expressway grids in the country. The LDP (E11) runs 40 km north to south straight through PJ; the SPRINT Expressway (E23) is the main link for northern PJ; and the New Pantai Expressway (E10) serves the south, running parallel to the Federal Highway. The North–South Expressway network reaches the town through its Subang, Damansara and Kota Damansara exits, so the whole Klang Valley workforce is within an easy drive.
The ecosystem
A blue-chip industrial base
Manufacturing pedigree
- Dutch Lady and F&N, long established in PJ
- Colgate-Palmolive and Vitagen
- Nissan and Sin Chew Jit Poh
The names that grew up around PJ’s Section 13 gave the town its industrial reputation.
Working industrial stock
- Detached, semi-detached and terrace factories
- Warehousing and light-industrial units
- Held across PJ’s established industrial areas
PJ’s remaining factory land trades in a handful of mature industrial pockets.
Licensing & workforce
- Business and trade premises licensed through MBPJ
- About 800,000 residents in PJ itself
- The wider Klang Valley within reach on the highways
One local authority, and a deep labour pool that reaches well beyond the city line.
The market
A maturing industrial city
PJ’s oldest industrial estate tells the story of where the market is heading. Section 13 began as a light-industrial enclave and has largely been rebuilt into a commercial and office district. Jaya One, Jaya 33 and Plaza 33 all stand on land that once held factories. As the town’s early industrial land converts to higher-value commercial use, the purpose-built industrial stock that is left has become scarce.
From Iwajib Group
Coming to Petaling Jaya
Upcoming
Comprising only 9 units, the PJ Industrial Hi-Tech Hub is a project that will redefine the concept of industrial developments, where progress meets sustainability.
- 9 units
- Industrial hi-tech hub
- Petaling Jaya, Selangor
PJ Hi-Tech Hub is Iwajib Group’s development in Petaling Jaya. It has not launched yet. Register your interest and the team will be in touch as the details are released.
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