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PlayTown
Founder's Pitch Retail Sophisticated
Pre-launch · Opens 28 Feb 2027 · Rawang, Selangor

Own a slice of Malaysia at play.

PlayTown Rawang is Malaysia's first integrated 187,000 sq ft family campus — four zones under one gate, weekly visits at RM 30 per head. Anchored by Lowyat Group. Opening Q1 2027.

187,000 sq ft
Integrated campus
165,000
Families in catchment
RM 5.6m
Of RM 10m raised
28 Feb 2027
Soft launch
The 60-second pitch

PlayTown in four blocks.

▦ Product
Malaysia's first integrated 187,000 sq ft family campus — four zones under one gate, weekly visits at RM 30/head.
⊘ Problem
Disney, Genting, Sunway create memories — at RM 800+ per family, once a year. No format delivers Disney-grade bonding at weekly-visit economics.
◷ Market
165,000 families in primary catchment. Selangor income leads Malaysia. Site #1 of 5–7 SEA sites by 2033, Bursa-bound.
⚡ Traction
Opens 28 Feb 2027. RM 5.6m of RM 10m committed. Lowyat Group bundles memberships into 600–1,000 new homes/year.
Moments worth keeping

The energy state we're building for.

Five scenes from the operating venue. All zones, same family, one weekend.

Twin Towers
Outdoor · Twin Towers

The KLCC silhouette, kid-scale.

Twin Towers + Bunga Raya secondary climber.

Splash
Splash · Pulau

Lotus cannons. Cream wave floor. Joy.

Slot-based access. Parents stay dry. Kids do not.

Sports
Sports · Padang

Three generations, same court.

5 pickleball courts + mini football.

Indoor
Indoor · Kampung

Treehouse, ball pit, glass to outdoor.

4,000 sq ft kampung soft play.

F&B
F&B · Amphi

Day ends, the band starts.

Steel-stack stage. 8 food stalls.

What is PlayTown

A recreation campus, not a theme park.

PlayTown is a 187,000 sq ft integrated recreation campus in Bandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang — designed so children play, parents play, and nobody waits.

Four zones side-by-side under one gate. Built for weekly visits at ~RM 30 per head, not once-a-year occasions at RM 200. Designed for the 95% of weekends that aren't special — but should be.

Outdoor PlaygroundTwin Towers · Bunga Raya · sand-play
Splash ParkLotus cannons · cream wave EPDM
Indoor Soft PlayKampung treehouse · rain anchor
Sports5× pickleball · mini football
The site & market

Anchored by Lowyat. Sized for 165,000 families.

The site

  • LocationBandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang
  • Area187,000 sq ft
  • LandlordLowyat Group
  • Soft launch28 Feb 2027
  • ContractorPembinaan LNS (CIDB G6)

Lowyat Group's commitment: RM 6m upfront site infrastructure + PlayTown memberships bundled into 600–1,000 new residential units/year over the lease — built-in demand pipeline.

The catchment

  • 0–10 min (primary)120,000 people
  • 10–20 min (secondary)230,000 people
  • 20–35 min (tertiary)400,000 people
  • Total reachable~750,000
  • Families with children~165,000

Model needs just ~22% catchment capture to hit base. Regional family parks routinely deliver 25–40%. Selangor income leads Malaysia at RM 13,296 median monthly household income.

Why others can't copy

The structural moats. Honest weather.

Two-company architecture

Asset Co + Marketing Co separated by design.

Asset Co holds the lease + fixtures + depreciation as a yield vehicle. Marketing Co takes operating risk and growth upside. Investors choose their side — yield or growth. No other Malaysian family-recreation operator has structured this.

The Rain Promise

Malaysian rain is real — we built for it, not against it.

Light rain: families pivot under ~12,000 sq ft of tensile-canopied outdoor. Thunderstorm: 4,000 sq ft kampung indoor + F&B absorb 25–30 families. Members get unlimited free re-entry within 30 days for any visit cut short by weather. Non-members get a rain-check pass.

Casual-first pricing

RM 30 ARPU. Weekly visits, not once-a-year.

Most operators price at RM 100–200/visit for annual occasions. PlayTown is ~RM 30 blended ARPU designed for weekly repeat. Membership engine builds habit, not one-shot purchase.

Anchor landlord with embedded pipeline

Demand built into the lease.

Lowyat Group bundles PlayTown memberships into 600–1,000 new residential units/year delivered into the catchment. Structural partnership new entrants cannot get.

⚠ Where others failed

Family-recreation has a graveyard. Here's why we avoid it.

Each closure had a specific structural cause. We named them. We studied them. We built PlayTown's architecture as the answer.

Failed FEC · What killed it
PlayTown's structural answer
Premium career-play FECs · Per-visit pricing RM 80–100/child made weekly-repeat economics impossible. Single-format wore thin after 1–2 visits per family.
RM 30 blended ARPU · weekly-repeat math · 4 zones rotating to defeat fatigue · membership engine builds habit.
Sunway Lagoon dips · Single-format weather-dependent waterpark + annual-occasion pricing.
Four parallel zones, indoor anchor + tensile-shaded outdoor. The Rain Promise.
Berjaya Times Square Theme Park · Operator-landlord misalignment. Capex starved.
Two-company architecture: Asset Co yield vehicle + MarCo operating engine. Aligned by design.
Independent suburban FECs · Undercapitalised at launch. Solo operators burned out. No marketing budget post-opening.
RM 10m fully-funded structure · institutional + retail tranches · Lowyat anchor pipeline with 600–1,000 residential units/year.
The capital roadmap

From seed round to Bursa Main Market.

Today's RM 5m seed round is the first cheque on a state-endorsed capital escalator. Bursa Malaysia's Green Pathway (May 2026 consultation) lets early-stage companies progress to a LEAP listing in 3–4 years, then ACE Market, then Main Market — without re-IPO friction.

2026 · NOW

Seed round

RM 5m raise
MarCo equity at RM 20m post-money · private + retail tranches
Q1 2027

Rawang opens

Site 1 live
12-month Y1 operating evidence
2029–30

LEAP listing

Liquidity, no raise
Bursa Green Pathway · tradeable shares
2031–32

ACE transfer

RM 25m raise
RM 100m post · funds sites 4–5
2033–34

Main Market IPO

RM 150m raise
RM 500m post · Centre #8+ expansion
Down to earth

What you'd actually get back. Slide your ticket.

A simplified projection based on the locked 12-year financial model. Choose your ticket size, pick a scenario, see the numbers. Talk to Ken if you want to underwrite the assumptions in detail.

① Your ticket sizeRM 5,000
Default 50:50 split — RM 2,500 to Asset Co · RM 2,500 to Marketing Co
② Scenario
Bear
No IPO · hold to Y12
Base
IPO at RM 300m
Stretch
IPO at RM 500m
Asset CoYIELD
RM 0
Total returned over 12 years
0×MOIC · 0% IRR
Marketing CoGROWTH
RM 0
At Bursa Main Market IPO (Y8)
0×MOIC · 0% IRR · 8y
Default allocation: the calculator splits your ticket 50:50 between Asset Co and Marketing Co. To adjust, talk to Ken — you can subscribe to either company independently or in any ratio.

How this works: Asset Co shows total cash distributions Y3–Y12 + residual fixture value at Y12 — your stake × locked 12-year financial model. Marketing Co entry at RM 6.8m equity post-money (RM 3m founder pre-money + RM 3.8m equity raise; the remaining RM 1.2m of the RM 5m total raise is structured as RPS, off the equity table).

Three scenarios for MarCo:
• Bear · No IPO — venture stays private through Y12, exit at modeled terminal (EBITDA × 10 = RM 25.5m) plus 11 years of operating distributions from events + multi-site royalties. Only ESOP dilution (~10%) applies. ~6× MOIC, ~22% IRR, payback Y7.
• Base · RM 300m IPO — Main Market listing Y8 at RM 300m market cap. 30% float = RM 90m raised, funds Centres 8–12. Full dilution stack (ESOP × ACE × IPO float = 47.25% retention). Hold 8 years.
• Stretch · RM 500m IPO — same dilution stack, larger IPO mcap.

Not a guarantee. Projections only. Pre-revenue family-recreation ventures carry substantial risk including total loss of capital. Talk to Ken to underwrite the assumptions yourself.
⚡ Live capital raise · closing soon

RM 5.6m raised of RM 7m bare minimum to launch.

RM 7m is the floor — Phase 1A breaks ground there. RM 10m completes the full Asset Co + MarCo cap structure. Asset Co (RM 5m) is fully subscribed; MarCo (RM 5m) opens to investors immediately after Asset Co closes.

RM 5.6m / RM 10m total target
56% of total commitment · 80% of bare-minimum launch threshold
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Playtown Ventures Sdn Bhd · Bandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang, Selangor, Malaysia. This page is intended for invited investors and partners. Not an offer or solicitation. Past performance not indicative of future results. Investment in early-stage ventures carries substantial risk including loss of principal.