101 Commercial Center
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Nearly completed buildings.
1:250 Scale model shown
101 Commercial Center is a new commercial center currently being built up next to Boulevard Commercial Center. Construction is due to be finished in 2016. Located by the Miri Pujut Highway next to Boulevard Commercial Center with fifty four units of three-storey shophouses. On the four corners each are high-rise office towers, of which are soon to be the Forestry Department, Agriculture Department and two Public Works deparment.
A 9-storey District Office Building and 5-storey Majlis Islam Sarawak Building is at the center end.
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