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Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall (translated as Malacca Warrior Square Megamall) is a shopping mall located in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. It was developed and is owned by Hatten Group Sdn Bhd on a 7.7 hectares site in the city, and is the biggest lifestyle shopping megamall in the state. The mall has a gross area of 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m) and a net retail area of 750,000 square feet (70,000 m).
It houses international fashion brands like Adidas, Hush Puppies, and Birkinstock, along with international and local food and beverage favourites like A&W, Mac Donalds, and Shihlin, also fine jewellery stores like Mustafa Jewellery, Swarovski, and Wah Chan, entertainment centres, a movie cinema owned by Golden Screen Cinemas and karaoke centre.
The land where the mall now stands was initially a seaside green space reclaimed from sea during the British colonial era named Padang Pahlawan (Warrior Field), where the date of the independence of Malaya was announced. But further land reclamation from 1974 until the early 1990s changed much of the coastline of then Malacca Town, resulting in Padang Pahlawan becoming a green space in the middle of the City. In 2001, Malacca state government-owned company Kumpulan Melaka Berhad (Malacca Group Limited) carried out a RM60 million project to transform Padang Pahlawan into Dataran Pahlawan, as well as developing nearby commercial area.
