Central i-City

Central i-City is a shopping mall located in i-City, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. The mall is a joint-venture project between Thailand’s largest retail property developer Central Pattana PCL (CPN), with a 60 per cent stake, and i-City Properties Sdn Bhd (ICP), an affiliate of i-Berhad that holds 40 per cent.[5] Central i-City is CPN's first international mall.[6]

Central i-City

Location	i-City, Shah Alam, Selangor Malaysia
Coordinates	3°3′44.1″N 101°28′54.2″E
Address	No. 1, i-City, Persiaran Multimedia, Seksyen 7, 40000 Shah Alam
Opening date	15 June 2019
Developer	Central Pattana i-City Properties Sdn Bhd
Architect	SAA Group Architects[1]
No. of stores and services	365[2]
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	926,000 sq ft (86,000 m^2)
No. of floors	6[3]
Parking	3,000[4]
Public transit access	BK15  i-City LRT Station (under construction)
Website	central-icity.com.my

As of November 2019, the mall is the largest in Shah Alam in terms of floor area and recorded footfall of about 800,000 a month.[3] The mall also houses the largest Samsung Onyx LED cinema screen in Southeast Asia.[7]

History

The construction of the shopping mall started in January 2016, initially named CentralPlaza@i-City. The mall spans 1.5 million sq ft of gross floor area with gross development value (GDV) of RM 850 million.[5][6] The mall was expected to be opened in August 2018.[8]

The mall had its soft opening on 23 March 2019 and was officially opened by the Sultan of Selangor, HRH Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah on 15 June 2019.[9][10]

Tenants

Anchor tenants[3] Sogo Department Store TGV Cinemas Village Grocer

Other tenants[3][11][2] Among the tenants in the mall are: 7 Eleven 4Fingers Crispy Chicken Absolute Thai Ace Hardware ALL IT Hypermarket A&W Restaurants A Look Eyewear Adidas Al Ikhsan Sports ANTA APEXCHANGE APT Salon Asus & Acer AWG Fine Watches Baby Bull Bluunis Bath & Body Works BOKITTA BONIA Borofone by AMG Gadget Boost Juice Burger King Bar.B.Q Plaza Baskin-Robbins BB.Q Chicken BBQ Town Restaurant Black Canyon Coffee Brands Outlet Boat Noodle Bread Talk Bread Story CALA QISYA Caring Pharmacy Calvin Klein Celcom Café Amazon Chapayom Cha Tra Mue Celmonze the Signature Chatime Carl´s Jr Charles & Keith Chicky Chicken Chicken Plus & Mr Dakaglbi Chong Kok Kopitiam Cold Stone Creamery Common Sense Container Kebab Cha Cha Go CHUN Korean Hot Dogs Cutiecle The Nail Experts Coway & CUCKOO Daily Fruity David Locksmith Dockers Digi dip n dip Dubu Yo Dunkin Donuts EDIBEE ELLE Eight Days Salon Eighty One ELFI Jewellery Empire Sushi ETUDE House Extreme Family Mart Food Empire Famous Amos Fitness Concept F Timber Focus Point Foot Locker Gamers Hideout GNC Live Well Giordano Godiva Go Fit[lower-alpha 1] Grand Palace Go Noodle House Guardian Hot Pot Town Restaurant HLA HLA Jeans Hong Kong Sheng Kee Dessert Hamley´s Heritage Nyonya Cuisine Himalaya HONOR Hot & Roll Haidilao Hot Pot HUAWEI HUMMER Indo Bowl I Love Yoo Innisfree IQOS I Say Yatta John Henry Johnny´s Restaurant Jom Laksa Juice Works Jungle House Jelly Bunny KFC Kickers KOI The Koong Woh Tong KURO Teppanyaki DIY Kiehl´s Kyochon 1991 Kidzoona KAKI Makan Levi´s Leko Leko LANEIGE Lazo Diamond llaollao LYN Little Nyonya Machines Max Fashion Mail Boxes ETC Max City Maxis Mi Store Molten Chocolate Cafe MOOJI CHA Manekineko Malaysia Mj Jewellery Mievic Mr D.I.Y Moms House MYKORI Dessert Cafe MINISO Myeong Dong Toppokki My Beaute Village Nando´s Navy & Navy New ERA New Balance Next Kids OGAWA OO Bistro ONEXOX Oppo O Couples Tea OSIM OWL OWEE by Sayang Manis Pak Hamdan Pho Street PALO Party Wonderland Padini Concept Store Pizza Hut Malaysia[13] Pet Lovers Centre Polaris Pierre Cardin POPULAR PONEY Qaira Hajib Quick Cut Squid Boy Seoul Garden Siti Khadijah Sangkaya Santai Penyet Sasa Scholl SD Club Seen Secret Recipe Sepiring Saravanaa Bhavan Skechers Skechers Lifestyle Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks So Dim Sum Sofea Rose Sorella Sopoong Sox World Starbucks Street Churros Sushi Jiro Sushi King Swarovski Sushi Zanmai Sukiya Samsung Express Service Center Sports Direct Take Home Counter T BUN TARE The Brew Crew The Chicken Rice Shop The Body Shop The Face Shop TICINO Paris Typo The Nasi Lemak Co The Rollz Tealive Thai Syok Teh Tarik Place TOMAZ TOMEI Timberland Tiger Sugar Travel for All Tiny Button Trudy & Teddy Texas Chicken TBM Thai Odyssey The Sneaker Street[14] Uniqlo U Mobile Under Armour Universal Traveller Urban Write VANS Vanilla Mille Crepe Victoria´s Secret Vivo VINSTELLA VELVET Threading & Waxing Specialist Victoria Facelift Waffin Waroong Whoosh Wah Chan World of Watches W´s Hainam Corner Watsons Malaysia[lower-alpha 2] XIXILI Young Hearts & Young Curves YUBISO ZOK Noodle House and many more tenants

1. The first GoFit club in the world.[12]
2. The 15,000th Watsons in the world and the 500th in Malaysia.[15]

Access

Rail

The mall will be connected to the  BK15  i-City LRT Station once the LRT line is completed in 2020. Free bus service is available for customers travelling to and from the  KD12  Padang Jawa KTM station.[2]

Road

The mall is accessible via Kuala Lumpur–Port Klang highway and North Klang Straits Bypass.

References

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2. "Central i-City Shopping Centre, Malaysia". retail-insight-network.com. Verdict Media Limited. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
3. Kaur, Sharen (23 November 2019). "Central i-City eyes over RM40m revenue in first year". nst.com.my. New Straits Times. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
4. Clarence, Vicknesh Ashley (2 June 2017). "i-City to have own lifestyle retail mall". thestar.com.my. The Star. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
5. Mahalingam, Eugene (2 July 2018). "I-Bhd plans RM3bil worth of projects". thestar.com.my. The Star. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
6. Khoo, Ethel (7 July 2019). "Thailand's CPN opens first international mall in Malaysia". theedgemarkets.com.my. The Edge Markets. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
7. Hassandarvish, Milad (21 March 2019). "TGV opens cutting edge cinema in i-City, freebies up for grabs (VIDEO)". malaymail.com. Malay Mail. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
8. "Work starts on CentralPlaza@i-City shopping mall at i-City". thestar.com.my. The Star. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
9. Saieed, Zunaira (28 February 2019). "I-Bhd posts RM58.7mil net profit in FY18". thestar.com.my. The Star. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
10. Chan, Dawn (15 June 2019). "Central i-City shopping centre opens in Shah Alam". nst.com.my. New Straits Times. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
11. Pitsinee, Jitpleecheep (18 June 2019). "CPN opens Malaysian door for Thai brands". bangkokpost.com. The Bangkok Post. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
12. "GoFit Debuts a Smart New Way to Train". Business Insider. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
13. "Pizza Hut Malaysia surpasses 400 stores, plans more". insideretail.asia. Inside Retail. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
14. "The Sneaker Street concept store in Central i-City Shah Alam". nst.com.my. New Straits Times. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
15. Mohd Zakaria, Wan Ilaika (26 March 2019). "Watsons Malaysia opens 500th store in Shah Alam". thesundaily.my. The Sun Daily. Retrieved 25 November 2019.