Mammoth Empire Development
What we found
In January 2019 Empire City Damansara's mall stood abandoned, its tenants describing debris and construction materials, stagnant water, lifts that did not work and flooding inside its occupied office blocks.
The evidence
Delivery
NegativeMammoth Empire Land Sdn Bhd, a unit of Mammoth Empire Holdings, could not complete the Empire Residence project in Sungai Buloh, and the project was abandoned. A unit of Comintel accepted an RM183.15 million award to take it over and finish it. It was the second uncompleted MEH project taken up by another company that week.
2 more findings
The Empire Residence project in Sungai Buloh was abandoned by Mammoth Empire and handed to Comintel Corp Bhd to complete for RM183.15 million.
Empire City Damansara (ECD1) was launched in 2011 and originally targeted for completion in 2015, but experienced multiple delays; by 2013 it was only 60% complete with the completion date postponed to end of 2015, and remained incomplete years later.
Handover
NegativeIn October 2025 the Federal Court unanimously allowed the 58 buyers' appeal and sent their suit against Cosmopolitan Avenue to trial; the buyers said no strata titles had been issued nine years after they took possession in 2016, with only a partial CCC in place.
One more finding
Buyers of Empire City Damansara units waited 3+ years for keys; CCC (Certificate of Completion and Compliance) for all 12 blocks was delayed.
Regulatory and legal
NegativeA High Court decision (Pinpoint Consortium (M) Sdn Bhd v Mammoth Empire Land Sdn Bhd, High Court Malaya Shah Alam, June 2019) involved a home buyer claiming liquidated damages against Mammoth Empire Land for delay in delivery of vacant possession.
2 more findings
In 2023 the High Court set aside a corporate voluntary arrangement proposed by True Renaissance Development Sdn Bhd, a Mammoth Empire Holding Sdn Bhd unit, for the abandoned Empire Remix project in Subang Jaya, ruling that it was not workable.
Pinpoint Consortium (M) Sdn Bhd v Mammoth Empire Land Sdn Bhd [2020] 5 CLJ 281 (High Court Shah Alam, Wong Kian Kheong J, 24 June 2019) was a homebuyer's claim for liquidated damages over late vacant possession of an apartment parcel, turning on whether a settlement agreement with the developer was valid under the HDA.
Corporate continuity
NegativeMEH was selling several assets, including its Chinatown building for RM48 million, to raise about RM800 million to pay down debt and complete long-delayed projects.
3 more findings
MEH sold its 61-acre ECD2 tract to Exsim Development for RM760 million, and an MEH-Exsim joint venture would complete the outstanding Empire City developments (about RM800 million GDV).
Mammoth Empire Holding Sdn Bhd, known as MEH, launched the RM5 billion Empire City Damansara project in 2011 and turned to a joint venture with Exsim Group to complete it.
Mammoth Empire Land Sdn Bhd went into liquidation after running into financial difficulties, and the contractor brought in to finish its work on Empire Residence was also tasked with working with it to formulate a scheme of arrangement under the Companies Act.
