Dream Mall

Tungcheng Development, part of the Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, opened Dream Mall on May 12, 2007, in the Cianjhen district of Kaohsiung, developing, owning and managing the property directly rather than through a separate operating partner. Near Kaisyuan Station, the complex rises roughly eight main retail floors plus additional underground levels, making it one of Taiwan’s largest single shopping-center structures.

At roughly 150,000 sqm, the property carries more than 700 stores, anchored by Uni-President Department Store (formerly operating under a Hankyu Department Store partnership), an unusually large tenant count reflecting its scale as a genuine multi-level retail-and-entertainment district rather than a conventional single-format mall. Parking spans several thousand car and motorcycle spaces, reflecting Taiwan’s motorcycle-dense urban transport patterns.

A rooftop amusement park anchors the entertainment tier, including the Kaohsiung Eye Ferris wheel at 102.5 metres elevation, Taiwan’s only waterfront Ferris wheel, alongside Gucci, Coach and Tiffany on the upper luxury floors and Uniqlo, Zara and Muji carrying more accessible fashion on lower levels.

That sheer physical scale, hundreds of individual stores across eight-plus levels topped by a genuine amusement park, positions Dream Mall among Taiwan’s largest retail developments, reflecting Kaohsiung’s ambitions to establish a genuine large-format retail and entertainment anchor for southern Taiwan comparable to the mega-malls more commonly associated with Taipei.