Desa Parkcity is welcoming another new neighborhood in 2021 – SOUTH BROOKS. Before it was vacant possessed, there were already many transactions completed, yes, without seeing the final product. Those sub-sales buyers who trusted the developer’s delivery certainly get their rewards, assuming and likely that they paid a lower price than after the property was officially delivered.
PROPCAFE has received many photos from PROPCAFE buddies and it is exactly as gorgeous as the pictures when we visited it. Let us run through this property here for you and this time we have managed to include more videos for readers to have better visualisation of South Brooks! Enjoy!
Facade of South Brooks
The building design is not outstanding but the architects bring its curve elements into South Brooks when you see the curvy edges and all common facilities and flooring are follow the same concept. The developer smartly painted the wall in a dark grey color to provide the impression of large windows and doors from far. This is to mitigate the beehive visual impact on the building due to a large number of units and windows. You see this common flaw in many developments in Malaysia.
The perimeter of South Brooks
The perimeter with the combination of stones and mesh netting concept brings out the nature of the building and yet keeps some privacy to the residents. The passer-by still can enjoy the lush green and luxury of the South Brooks just like other buildings (One Central Parks and Westside Side series) in Desa Parkcity.
Guardhouse and Entrance Arc
Residents and visitors will be greeted by a wide entrance with dual lanes for both incoming and outgoing traffic. The neat rectangular guardhouse is well equipped with a toilet for guards and fits the overall design of the entrance very well. The arc of the guardhouse with skylight roofing is simple and elegant with superior material which will last long without much maintenance. You may see similar material used in other parts of Desa Parkcity, for example, Parkcity Medical Centre, it still looks good after many years. PROPCAFE have to say, this entrance arc is probably one of the nicest in Desa Parkcity high-rises, definitely better than One Centre Park’s which is much of a letdown given its much higher price tag.
Rock Hills Backdrop
When you reach the guardhouse, you will notice the backdrop of rocky hills which is nicely retained by the developer to shade the noise from NKVE and form a nice view from the entrance. Certain low-floor units can enjoy this beautiful scene as well.
Drop-off Area
The drop-off area comes with the fountain which serves as the roundabout for the passenger cars to drop off the residents. Again, it is wide and spacious which is in front and in the middle of Towers 1 and 2. You may notice there is a shaded pathway to link the car park podium to allow residents to cross over and reach the lobby. The fountain will always become the center of attention with the colorful lighting at night.
The Grand Lobby and Lounge
South Brooks has an open-air grand lobby with a double volume ceiling. Well, we should say, two lobbies instead. The developer allocated a large horizontal waiting lounge for both towers. As it is accessible and connected, the whole area comes with resout setting and spacious. Well done!. If we want to nitpick, probably too many pillars here. Well, it is all to support the building so it is understood. Having said that, all pillars have the cladding done with lightings. Superb!
You can notice the lobbies are filled with many soft and “hard” pieces of furniture. The furniture is nicely custom-made which you can see the developer places it not only at the center of the lobby but also at the side of almost every pillar and available corners. The “hard” furniture is those using heavy-duty designed seats which mixed nicely with the other furniture. The nice benches are everywhere and the best is developer even utilize the multiple layering of the ground to put on the wooden panel as the additional seat areas for residents and visitors. Basically, you don’t have to worry about not having a seat at the waiting lounge at all for residents and visitors.
The blend of Garden, Lobby, and Building – Connection and Breeze
You don’t need us to explain the mesmerizing scene from the garden towards the lobby and building. It is home!
Connection between Green and Waiting Lounge – Nice Walk
Central Gardens, Brooks, and Siesta Pavillion
Desa Parkcity developer is never shy to showcase its specialty. We are talking proper design of landscape, gardens, and green. In South Brooks, you have Brooks and Pavillion too! From the lobby, you are directly connected and overlook the huge garden. The developer is very generous to allocate such a large parcel for residents to enjoy. The best place, for your kids and… furkids too.
Siesta Pavillion
The iconic Siesta Pavillion can be seen easily in South Brooks and it is not just for the kids but all residents who want to have a nice ambiance and outdoor yet private area to chill as the developer, again, included the long benches at the pavilion.
Brooks in South Brooks
Next, is the brooks. With the name of South Brooks, you just cannot miss this. While is it is a bit smaller than we expected, this brooks could still be a joy for children. The memory of our old-time to place the paper boats and chase them from one end to another.
Extended Waiting Area – Garden and Indoor Lounges
Both wings have an extended waiting area after the lift lobby. The developer put in the soft furnishing and also additional garden as the waiting or resting areas for residents and visitors. Two towers come with different themes and PROPCAFE definitely prefer the Tower 1 design with is more modern and cool. Tower 1 garden design is more conventional but more practical for group gatherings.
Extended wing photos
Tower 1 – Indoor and Outdoor Garden, Water Features, Playground, and Private Indoor Meeting Area
As we expected in our South Brooks Review 4 years back, Tower 1 has much more garden and green than Tower 2. So, congratulations to those who own the tower 1 low floor, especially the corner units, where you can enjoy more garden views, together with two playgrounds and a larger open sitting area with water features to cut down the noise from the road outside the perimeter and serve as a good place for parents to hang around while kids are having their fun out there. You don’t have to worry about the hygience as a nice washing basin is provided!
Tower 2 – Grapevine Trellis, Indoor and Outdoor Garden and Lounges (Tower 2)
Grapevine Trellis is located at the side of Tower 2, which is beside the guardhouse. It is a nice private area for residents (benches again!) and it is absolute beauty at night!
Tower 2 owners do not need to be upset less outdoor garden, you have extra indoor semi-open waiting lounge or gathering spots with proper soft furnishing. It is the perfect place for an adult drinking sessions and small private group celebration activities.
You can see both buildings have wheelchair-friendly facilities for residents to come out and enjoy the ground floor garden which is all linked with a proper pathway.
Lift Entrance and Lobby
There are two lift lobbies for two different Towers. You may notice the entrance of the lobby is is having a mirrored ceiling which makes this part of the low ceiling looks visually higher.
The lift lobby is nicely designed with a fluted wall panel which makes the environment homier to residents. However, we felt the service lift is way too narrow and small for any movement of large items. The productivity of delivery and renovation will likely be affected.
Individual floor
Standard floor – It comes with 3 wings and a total of 12 units. Each wing comes with 4 units. Due to the access to the link bridge and facilities podium, the 8th floor has one unit less but it is the busiest floor due to the traffic in and out from the facility floor. Good luck and do expect wet flooring there as well. The three wings design also makes the floor rather dark.
Mezzanine floor – This floor only has 4 units and is certainly the best in terms of privacy. Not just that, the mezzanine is bright as it get the sunlight from the lobby and have their own waiting lounge! Also, it has an extra open exit staircase (other than an emergency staircase) than other floors (see below). This staircase (only for the Mezzanine and 1st floor) allows residents to go down the lobby easily and collect their delivery without the need to wait for the lift. PROPCAFE likes it a lot as it is convenient and can save the lift waiting time. The extra waiting lounge on the mezzanine floor also comes with a fantastic view. Take a look at the photo and video below, you will realize these units are a GEM.
Facility Floor
There is a linked bridge at 8th floor to connect residential block with facility podium. It means there is one unit less in 8th floor. The developer is even providing waiting area with benches at the entrance door! With the expectation that many may forget their access card or wait for someone else? PROPCAFE just think that developer just too addicted on the bench allocation in the building. So, so, so many! 🙂
Tropical Pocket Garden
Residents need to pass the 8th-floor units before they can access the link bridge to the facilities above the car park podium. First, you meet the tropical pocket garden. How many times i have mentioned it, so many benches, and this time, the shape of the benches are unique and cool! The same pocket garden also can be found in other parts of this floor as well (the side of the floor and besides Gym roo).
Next to the garden, you can find two sunken garden benches. Serious, you don’t have to worry about crowds in South Brooks, you have all the private corners for your friends and family members to enjoy the outdoor chats and drinks.
Multi-purpose Hall
The hall next to the pool and tropical pocket garden is well located as it can entertain guests both indoor or outdoor (garden & pool). It is not as big as we thought but it is furnished nicely with proper wall panel and design which is the favorite for residents so far as we were told many parties being organized last two months.
Swimming and Wading Pool
PROPCAFE covered the TAORMINA and COPENHAGEN pool design in South Brooks Review a few years back. It comes out very nice and straight away, you will feel poolside to be more family-oriented compared to the standard rectangular swimming pool. Also because of this shape, the pool can be easily designed to extend it with any available space and provide many private corners for families to occupy. The design of different leveling, and pocket of sunken lounges make more varieties to this pool. Some say the odd shape pool is a bit “old fashion”, but PROPCAFE likes this sort of family resort-oriented theme, just like Desa ParkCity Adiva’s pool area.
Catering Areas and Playground
Three catering sites are spotted right beside the pool and what else, more benches. 🙂
Gym Room
The gym is facing the pool but the developer put in the landscape to make some privacy for the family and pool users. The gym is very well equipped and it is actually bigger than Parkcity Club’s gym.
Rooftop Garden
Lastly, we head to the rooftop garden which is located on the 40th floor, the top of each tower. The garden is rather small and splits into two parts. You can enjoy a 360-degree view of Desa Parkcity and also peep KLCC and PNB118 here. Unfortunately, no new year’s firework celebration, otherwise this will be the best place to enjoy it. Although it is just a small garden, you have to give credit to the developer for them to come out of the first condo in Desa Parkcity with a rooftop garden. Why waste the great city and Desa Parkcity aerial view? Good job!
Car Park Podium
Lastly, let’s take a look South Brooks car park podium. PROPCAFE has to point out that the ramps are in the middle the building, it means residents to drive “round and round” to go up the floor. No a good news to those who are allocated their car park lots at higher floor. Well, this multipurpose storey car park podium is connected to two towers via its link bridge which is located at level 3 of podium and level 2 of residential block. The second floor of residential tower will be the highest traffic floor as residents need to take two lifts if their car park lots are not on the ground or third floor. It is part of the parcel of having a separate car park podium. The developer actually put in efforts to include some benches with artificial grass along way to make journey less stressful. If you ask any architects, they may point out to you that if the units are built on top and above of multiple car park podium, then you won’t get the same ambiance and may sacrify your gorgeous ground floor “connection” of lounge and beautiful gardens given the design and space constraint. We are pretty sure all residents will be more willing or prefer to have the current design as the current ground floor setting is just spectacular and impressive.
Bicycle parking racks are located behind the building and also inside the car park podium
Unit Furnishing
PROPCAFE will not cover our buddy’s unit for privacy reasons. However, we have to say that the finishing is above average based on our experience on VPed units. We didn’t many issues with the tiling and wall. All laminated flooring and finishing are neat and tidy. The Aino kitchen cabinet also comes with a free-standing island. The developer is also providing Teka hood and hob, American Standard sanitaryware, upgraded the instant water to storage boiler, quality sliding doors and windows, Daikin air conditioners in rooms and living hall, and good quality doors. The bathroom comes with full height mirror, marble top for basin area, rain shower head, shower screen, towel hanger, and recess wall. The developer is very detail to ensure it stands out from the rest, for example, the metal cover of compressor area from balcony, socket in bathroom, curtain box-up, small curb ramp to show area, right sizing of entrance foyer and so on. Well, the only complaint maybe is the choice of marble shade tiles. This is probably the first time the developer chose this design. Well, our advice is, to use marble shade tiles, first, it must come with at least 4-6 variations and it has to be in extra-large size to make it grand (minimum 2ft x 4ft tile).
What is our final verdict?
With the price tag of RM600-700psf four years back, the developer is “over-delivered” based on the average standard in Malaysia :). However, please keep it up and make Park Regent and Park Place to be next level! Well, the buyers must be very happy to get this sort of ambiance and quality of the product. It is a matter of time for the price to hit RM900-1000psf. In fact, it reflects in the “hot” sub-sales market here. Those who disposed of it recently below RM800psf will only have themselves to blame in two to three years’ time.
PROPCAFE is impressed with the efforts of the developer in this development. They have certainly had “meetings and meetings” to conceptualize the whole development, especially the large greenery, rooftop garden, facilities, and facilities are all sync perfectly. While chasing for beauty, they also considered many practical designs to ensure this is the place for all young and elderly. To be honest, we have just witnessed one of the buildings with the most seating areas in town! This place is so picturesque and you can basically keep shooting every corner of this building and common area. In short, the final product of South Brooks is way beyond PROPCAFE’s expectations, with the original price tag in mind and compares with other developments in Desa Parkcity (Westside Series, Breezeway, OCP etc). Fantastic works from Perdana Parkcity and its main contractor Crest Builder! Next, see you in Park Regent!
Compilation of Night Scene of South Brooks*
*Source of Night Scene Photos: Credit to Developer or Project Team – Received from PROPCAFE Buddy
If you missed our previous detail coverage and review of South Brooks, you may check it here. Happy New Year! Let’s hope an ONG year for all property investors and home seekers!
PROPCAFE™ Review: South Brooks @ Desa Parkcity By Perdana Parkcity
Excellent review.
Very detailed and complete with video.
If got some drone shots it would have been even better.
Thanks for the support! Most importantly it is useful for residents, prospect tenants, future buyers and agents. Do share more of this article to whoever need it or want to know about South Brooks.
Drone? Wow, need a bit of time to do it. Perhaps next project :).
Great review!
But if you do own one of the units there, it will be a horrible experience when it comes to South Brooks Customer Service which is in charge of defect rectification.
VP that time can just submit pdf form for defects. Out of a sudden ask all the owner to use app to submit. The app functions are very limited. The app that other developer use has a function for the owner to accept or reject the defect rectification whereas for South Brooks they just simply snap some photo and post it back in the app and that’s it.
On top of that, South Brooks Customer Service stated in Whatsapp saying “If you are in urgent need to commence renovation, you may proceed first” when they are still doing defect rectification. Anyone who has common sense would know that no renovation work should be carried out until all defect works are done.
Sorry to hear that. I guess the developer is trying to get it more digital but not fully ready yet. We have similar experiences in many developers. Perhaps more communication is needed with developer. We believe developer side vip are following us and should be able to read it. 🙂
Another beautiful development in Malaysia ruined by bad management. Would not recommend renting here as most owners just bought it as an investment property and are very hands off with management. This leads to some pretty wacky and unreasonable rules which make people’s lives miserable. Also, don’t come here if you have a dog. It is not dog friendly even if your agent tells you it is. They’ll say anything to get you to sign a lease.