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Rifle Range Flats (8 December 2009)
Rifle Range is an area in Air Itam, Penang. It is served by the Rifle Range Road, which joins Boundary Road to form a loop, connected at each end to the Air Itam Main Road.
Rifle Range is synonymous with the Rifle Range Flats, the earliest urban renewal project in George Town. Often condemned as an urban slum, the flats have since undergone several rounds of improvements. Nonetheless they are still very much a working-class neighbourhood.
Rifle Range, or Padang Tembak, got its name because it was once an open space used as a shooting range by the police and the military. The namesake shooting range located next to the Batu Gantong Cemetery made way for the low-cost flats in the early 1970s.
Map of Rifle Range, Ayer Itam, Penang
What to eat at Rifle Range
- Char Koay Teow at Kompleks Gerai Padang Tembak, recommended by Eddy Tong (18 August 2019)
- Dry Oyster Porridge, recommended by Agnes Cheah (16 August 2019)
Sights in Rifle Range
- Batu Gantong Cemetery (GPS: 5.41169, 100.2914)
- Boundary Court (GPS: 5.40713, 100.28813)
- Boundary Road Post Office (GPS: 5.40707, 100.28873)
- Jalan Padang Tembak Low Cost Flats (GPS: 5.40952, 100.29364)
- Kastella Court (GPS: 5.40759, 100.2937)
- Kedai Kopi Bee San (GPS: 5.40483, 100.28883)
- PBA Complex (GPS: 5.40867, 100.29359)
- Pentecostal Church of Malaysia (GPS: 5.40697, 100.29493)
- R & R Apartment (GPS: 5.40707, 100.2945)
- Restoran Nasi Kandar Salam (GPS: 5.40496, 100.28856)
- Rifle Garden Apartment (GPS: 5.40637, 100.28862)
- Rifle Range Flats (GPS: 5.41114, 100.28939)
- Rifle Range Market (GPS: 5.40918, 100.29195)
- Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Tembak (GPS: 5.41044, 100.29186)
- Sempadan Indah Apartment (GPS: 5.40753, 100.2881)
- Seri Sempadan Apartment (GPS: 5.40828, 100.28865)
- Taman Air Itam (GPS: 5.4081, 100.29279)
- Taman Linear Padang Tembak (GPS: 5.40998, 100.29227)
- Taman Manek (GPS: 5.40679, 100.295)
- Taman Rifle Garden
- Villa Sri Melati Apartment (GPS: 5.40747, 100.29402)
Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Tembak (8 December 2009)
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