i-City is a ICT-based urban development beside the Federal Highway in Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Planned by architect Jon Jerde,[ "The creative making of i-City" , StarProperty.my] i-City was designed as a fully integrated intelligent city, comprising corporation, leisure and Dwelling components such as a regional shopping mall, , Cybercentre , , , data centers, and an innovation center.["i-Residence @i-City sold in three months." New Straits Times. Financial Times Ltd. 2012.[2]]
i-City is an MSC Malaysia Cybercentre where knowledge-based companies with MSC Malaysia status can exploit the various incentives offered under the MSC Malaysia Bills of Guarantee. It has also been endorsed as a tourism destination by the Ministry of Tourism and declared as an International Park by the Selangor State Government. Such venues allow for entertainment and other cosmopolitanism lifestyle outlets to operate on a 24-7 basis.
i-City gross development value has increased to MYR 10 billion project from MYR 1.5 billion in 2002.
Overview
i-City plans to be a business location for six
, namely shared services and
outsourcing,
biotechnology, software development, as a
media hub, an Islamic financial hub, and a data centre.
Landmark
Jewel i-City, is a proposed supertall skyscraper in
Shah Alam,
Selangor,
Malaysia. It is the centerpiece and the landmark of the project. It would stand at a height of . It will surpass the previous record holder, Central Offices Tower 2, the tallest building in
Shah Alam as of today, when completed.
Buildings
Within i-City, CityPark is the designated building to house MSC Malaysia-status companies. CityPark consists of 6 blocks and has a total
Office of more than . The entire i-City development features eight corporate
, two
, two blocks of 24-story residences, three and five story
, and retail suites.
Hotels
As of December 2019,
Best Western is currently operating the three-star Best Western i-City hotel while in 2020,
Hilton Worldwide will operate the four-star
DoubleTree.
Shopping Mall
Central i-City shopping centre is a joint venture project between Thai outfit
Central Pattana and i-City Properties Sdn Bhd. The shopping centre costs RM 850 million. Spanning over 350 retail stores across six levels, the shopping centre is the largest in
Shah Alam.
The shopping mall had its soft opening on 23 March 2019 and was officially launched by Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah on 15 June 2019.
Data Centre
i-City has launched their Data Centre Park, which aims to be one of the largest data centre space providers in a single location in Malaysia. The Data Centre Park is designed for data centre service providers and large companies who plan to build their own data centre buildings. The park has the capacity to host up to four centres with a combined floor space of .
City of Digital Lights
Snowalk
SnoWalk is a
arctic environment attraction with 100 tons of
that were shaped by a team of 30
from Harbin, China. With temperatures below and of
snow on the ground, SnoWalk is a family leisure attraction.
Waterworld
WaterWorld at i-City features water rides and games. The main attraction consists of vortex water ride from a steep launch tower and
.
Red Carpet 2
Red Carpet 2 is Malaysia's first home-grown interactive
wax museum. Measuring up to , Red Carpet 2 allows visitors to do selfie with their favourite figures such as The Avengers Superheroes, Royals, Head of States, Sci-fi, Tech Giants like
Jack Ma and
Mark Zuckerberg, Corporate Movers, MTV, Outer Space, Magical World, K-pop (
Hallyu), Canto pop, Oscars, A-List artistes and so on.
Events
i-City has hosted various large-scale events and programmes, such as Malaysia's Independence Day Celebration on 31 August and the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the 2010 World Cup, i-City also showed the matches live from
Johannesburg on its
video wall, the largest
jumbotron in
Southeast Asia. It has also hosted MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia, in July 2011.
Miscellaneous
"True Discovery" is a
reptile exhibition located behind Old Town White Coffee Shop. It houses a reptile collection as well as exotic animals like
and
. Among its attractions is a two headed
terrapin.
Transit
Currently, the nearest
KTM Komuter station to i-City is the Padang Jawa station, on the . The station is a 10-minute drive from i-City.
Central i-City shopping mall used to provide shuttle buses connecting the mall to Padang Jawa KTM station at half-hourly intervals.
i-City will be connected by the LRT Shah Alam line via the Seksyen 7 Shah Alam LRT station through the 300 m walk once the LRT line starts operation in late 2025.
Accolades
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In 2017, i-City was named one of the world's top 25 brightest and most colourful places by CNN.
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