i-City is a ICT-based

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beside the Federal Highway in Section 7,

Shah Alam, Selangor Shah Alam () is a city and the state capital of Selangor, Malaysia and situated within the Petaling District and a small portion of the neighbouring Klang District. Shah Alam replaced Kuala Lumpur as the capital city of the state of Selangor in ...

, Malaysia. Planned by

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Jon A. Jerde, i-City was designed as a fully integrated intelligent city, comprising corporate, leisure and

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components such as a regional

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s, Cybercentre office suites,

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, and an innovation center. 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

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and declared an International Park by the Selangor State Government. Such venues allow for

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and other

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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 2005.

Overview

i-City plans to be a business location for six industry clusters, namely shared services and

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, as a

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, an Islamic financial hub, and a data centre.

Buildings

Within i-City, CityPark is the designated building to house MSC Malaysia-status companies. CityPark consists of 6 blocks and has a total

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of more than . The entire i-City development will feature eight corporate

s, two luxury hotels, two blocks of 24-story residences, three and five story

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s, and retail suites.

Hotels

As of December 2019,

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is currently operating the three-star Best Western i-City hotel while in 2020, Hilton Worldwide Group will operate the four-star DoubleTree by Hilton i-City Hotel.

Shopping Mall

Central i-City shopping centre is a joint venture project between Thai outfit Central Pattana Public Company Limited (CPN) 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 Shah Alam () is a city and the state capital of Selangor, Malaysia and situated within the Petaling District and a small portion of the neighbouring Klang District. Shah Alam replaced Kuala Lumpur as the capital city of the state of Selangor in ...

. 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

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environment attraction with 100 tons of

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s that were shaped by a team of 30

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s from

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. With temperatures below and of

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on the ground, SnoWalk is a family leisure attraction.

Waterworld

WaterWorld at i-City features water rides and games ranging from tame to wild in their propensity to provide thrills for family. The main attraction consists of vortex water ride from a steep launch tower and

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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

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, 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

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, i-City also showed the matches live from

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on its

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, the largest video screen in

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. It has also hosted

MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia MTV World Stage Live In Malaysia was a concert series in Malaysia from 2007 to 2015. On August 15, 2009, MTV Asia staged the an outdoor concert at Sunway Lagoon resort in Kuala Lumpur. The event was attended by over 15,000 people and featured a r ...

, in July 2011.

Miscellaneous

"True Discovery" is a

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exhibition located behind Old Town White Coffee Shop. It houses a reptile collection as well as exotic animals like

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s and

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s. Among its attractions is a two headed terrapin.

Transit

Currently, the nearest KTM Komuter station to i-City is Padang Jawa station, on the . The station is a 10-minute drive from i-City. Central i-City shopping mall provides shuttle buses connecting the mall to Padang Jawa KTM station at half-hourly intervals. i-City will be connected by the Bandar Utama-Klang LRT Line via the I-City LRT Station once the LRT line starts operation in 2024.

Accolades

*In 2017, i-City was named one of the world's top 25 brightest and most colourful places by CNN Travel.

References

External links

Tourism Malaysia - i-City

i-City Wiki

I-City Shah Alam
Attractions in Malaysia {{Selangor 2009 establishments in Malaysia MSC Malaysia High-technology business districts in Malaysia Shah Alam