Orchard Gateway (stylized as orchardgateway) is a
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that ...
in
Orchard Road
Orchard Road, often known colloquially as simply Orchard, is a major –long road in the Central Area of Singapore. Known as a famous tourist attraction, it is an upscale shopping area of Singapore, with numerous internationally renowned depa ...
,
Singapore
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, connecting
Orchard Central and 313@Somerset together next to
Somerset MRT station
Somerset MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South Line in Orchard, Singapore. It is one of the three stations located along the popular shopping belt, Orchard Road.
The station connects to Comcent ...
. The mall was meant to be completed in November 2013,
but was delayed and officially opened on 26 April 2014. It was built on the site of the former
Specialists Shopping Centre and Orchard Emerald.
The mall is part of an integrated development which includes a hotel and an office tower. The hotel is built above the mall and the office tower is built above orchardgateway@emerald, another shopping mall located opposite Orchard Gateway. The hotel consists of 500 rooms and is linked to the office tower by a glass tubular overhead bridge.
History
Announced on 21 March 2012, the integrated development is jointly developed by
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited (), often known as OCBC Bank (), is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in OCBC Centre, Singapore. OCBC Bank was born out of the Great Depression t ...
, United Engineers Limited. Developed on land previously occupied by
Specialists' Shopping Centre
The Specialists' Shopping Centre was the oldest shopping centre on Orchard Road, a shopping area of Singapore. The largest tenant of the shopping centre were Hotel Phoenix Singapore and John Little. The Visitor's Guide of Singapore described th ...
, Phoenix Hotel and Orchard Emerald, the mall with 180,000 square feet of retail space over 6 levels (including the 2 basement levels) houses both local and international lifestyle brands. It is also well connected to the shopping belt of Orchard Road via the glass overhead bridge, an underpass across Orchard Road and inter-mall walkthroughs.
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Facilities and features
The mall has secured international brands such as Crate & Barrel
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, Religion, Swatch
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, Nike
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* Nike (mythology), a Greek goddess who personifies victory
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People
* Nike (name), a surname and feminine give ...
’s new concept stall called Amplify Women's and a NLB library, library@orchard as tenants. Other tenants include I.T, J.Lindeberg and Red Wing Shoes
Red Wing Shoes (Red Wing Shoe Company, LLC) is an American footwear company based in Red Wing, Minnesota that was founded by Charles H. Beckman in 1905.
Within 10 years of its inception, Red Wing Shoes was producing more than 200,000 pairs of ...
.[ American furniture retailer, Crate & Barrel occupies over 3 levels of retail space as the anchor tenant of the shopping mall.
Orchard Gateway is also a ]sustainable building
Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from planni ...
as it is able to harness bio-gas from compositing food waste
Food loss and waste is food that is not eaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous and occur throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about o ...
to produce electricity, it also has a car-park guidance system that leads motorists to the nearest parking lot to reduce exhaust emissions and also features ultraviolet emitters in air-handling units to improve air quality in the
F&B areas of the mall.[
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Hotel Jen orchardgateway
Operated by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts () is a multinational hospitality company. Founded in 1971 by tycoon Robert Kuok in Malaysia, the company now has over 100 luxury hotels and resorts with over 40,000 rooms in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle E ...
, the first Hotel Jen officially opened on 15 September 2014. Formally known as Traders Hotel, Hotel Jen occupies the hotel building above Orchard Gateway.
See also
* List of shopping malls in Singapore
This is a list of shopping malls in Singapore, sorted along their districts. As of August 2020, there are 171 malls on this list.
Some listed shopping malls here are also inclusive as a mixed-use development and or part of an neighbourhood plaza ...
References
External links
Hotel Jen Official website
{{Singapore malls
Shopping malls in Singapore
Downtown Core (Singapore)
Shopping malls established in 2014
2014 establishments in Singapore