The Mitsui Outlet Park at Taichung Port is scheduled to begin trial operations at the end of this month before it is officially opened next month, Taiwan International Ports Corp (TIPC) said on Tuesday.
The Tokyo-based development group’s first outlet park in Taiwan was built in Taoyuan’s Linkou District (林口). It has built outlet parks in Japanese port cities, including Yokohama and Kisarazu.
Its Mitsui Outlet Park, on an 18-hectare property of the port, is a multifunctional facility designed to serve shoppers, restaurant-goers and entertainment seekers, TIPC said.
Mitsui Group in 2015 submitted a business plan to build the park at the port, because it saw the business opportunities created by an increase in international tourists arriving on cruise ships and cross-strait ferries at the port, TIPC Taichung business development supervisor Lin Mei-hsiu (林美秀) said.
The group requested land about 25km from the Shinkong Mitsukoshi Department Store in Taichung and three times larger than its Linkou property, Lin said, adding that TIPC then found a property that matched Mitsui Group’s requirements.
TIPC also helped facilitate the construction of basic infrastructure around the property, Lin said.
Trial operations are to begin on Nov. 29 before it officially opens on Dec. 12, Lin said, adding that once the park begins operations, TIPC would collect rent and management fees.
The outlet park is to house 170 stores, restaurants and entertainment facilities, TIPC said, adding that a Ferris wheel would also be installed.
It is to be the only outlet in the nation where visitors can shop and enjoy a view of the sea at the same time, it said.
International brands such as The North Face, Timberland and TUMI are to have stores in the park, Mitsui Group said in a statement, adding that it would also feature Japanese restaurant chains, some of which are opening restaurants in Taiwan for the first time.
The park is also to have entertainment facilities, including Snow Town and Asobi Square, it said.
The facility is to be part of Taichung’s tourism corridor, which also includes Wuci Fishing Port (梧棲漁港), the Gaomei Wetlands (高美溼地), a soon-to-be-built aquarium and Dajia Jenn Lann Temple (大甲鎮瀾宮), TIPC said.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 7pm yesterday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The epicenter of the temblor was at sea, about 69.9km south of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 30.9km, it said. There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake. The earthquake’s intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Taitung County’s Changbin Township (長濱), where it measured 5 on Taiwan’s seven-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 4 in Hualien, Nantou, Chiayi, Yunlin, Changhua and Miaoli counties, as well as
Credit departments of farmers’ and fishers’ associations blocked a total of more than NT$180 million (US$6.01 million) from being lost to scams last year, National Police Agency (NPA) data showed. The Agricultural Finance Agency (AFA) said last week that staff of farmers’ and fishers’ associations’ credit departments are required to implement fraud prevention measures when they serve clients at the counter. They would ask clients about personal financial management activities whenever they suspect there might be a fraud situation, and would immediately report the incident to local authorities, which would send police officers to the site to help, it said. NPA data showed
ENERGY RESILIENCE: Although Alaska is open for investments, Taiwan is sourcing its gas from the Middle East, and the sea routes carry risks, Ho Cheng-hui said US government officials’ high-profile reception of a Taiwanese representative at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference indicated the emergence of an Indo-Pacific energy resilience alliance, an academic said. Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Men-an (潘孟安) attended the conference in Alaska on Thursday last week at the invitation of the US government. Pan visited oil and gas facilities with senior US officials, including US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and US Senator Daniel Sullivan. Pan attending the conference on behalf of President William Lai (賴清德) shows a significant elevation in diplomatic representation,
The Taipei MRT is to begin accepting mobile payment services in the fall, Taipei Rapid Transit Corp said on Saturday. When the company finishes the installation of new payment units at ticketing gates in October, MRT passengers can use credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay, the operator said. In addition, the MRT would also provide QR payment codes — which would be compatible with Line Pay, Jkopay, iPass Money, PXPay Plus, EasyWallet, iCash Pay, Taiwan Pay and Taishin Pay — to access the railway system. Currently, passengers can access the Taipei MRT by buying a single-journey token or using EasyCard,
RSS