The Forest City mega project was initiated by Johor Sultan Ibrahim Ismail to ensure that the state’s southern region is evenly developed, said project owner Country Garden Pacific View (CGPV).
“This area was spotted by our sultan who in fact wanted to see balanced development,” CGPV executive director Md Othman Yusof told a media briefing in Kuala Lumpur today.
This, he said, is because the current development under the Iskandar masterplan only focusses on the south-eastern side of the state while the south-western side appeared to be left out.
Therefore, Othman said the sultan had set out to convince investors to develop an area that was at that time nothing more than sea water.
“We have a sultan who is very visionary… he is the one who urged investors to come in, to convince investors – which is country garden – to come to invest in this area,” he said.
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