The TOP Penang, Theme Park Penang
Open-air skydeck and glass skywalk crowning a former civic skyscraper, sixty-eight floors above the old town.
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This guide to The TOP Penang traces the tower beneath your feet back to the 1970s, when chief minister Lim Chong Eu and his brother Lim Chong Keat cleared a whole George Town neighborhood of shophouses and homes to build a modern civic center, promising the displaced families housing in three residential towers as part of the deal. It follows the 1983 fire that gutted the building under construction and the rising costs that followed. Stand at the glass floor and look straight down at the streets those families once called home.
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