I-City Mall Project Essay

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Location (i-City, Shah Alam)

i-City is a 72 acres ICT-based urban development beside the Federal Highway in Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Master planned by world-renowned and award-winning architect Jon A Jerde, i-City was designed as a fully integrated intelligent city, comprising corporate, leisure and residential components such as a 1.0 million square feet regional shopping mall, office towers, Cybercentre office suites, hotels, apartments, data centres and innovation centre.

i-City is a MSC Malaysia Cybercentre where knowledge-based companies with MSC Malaysia status can enjoy the various incentives offered under the MSC Malaysia Bills of Guarantee. It has also been endorsed as a Tourism

Broadband redundancy is also available through the load balanced multi carrier/multi gateway connections, which in the event that a connection from one carrier is disrupted, another carrier takes over giving uninterrupted broadband connectivity. i-City Plans to be the ideal business location for 6 industry clusters, namely Shared Services & Outsourcing, Biotechnology, Software Development, Media Hub, Islamic Financial Hub and Data Centre. Thus, the plan shows I-city are moving forward to become flexible trading area all in one place.

2.1.1.4 Adequate Existing Facilities
Master planned by world-renowned and award-winning architect Jon A Jerde, i-City was designed as a fully integrated intelligent city, comprising corporate, leisure and residential components such as a 1.0 million sq. ft. regional shopping mall, office towers, Cybercentre office suites, hotels, apartments, data centres and innovation centre. The facilities provided are enough for businesses especially digital based company and shopping mall to operate here.

2.1.1.5 Unique Concept
Located in the city of Shah Alam, i-City is a one-of-a-kind theme-park where all the main attractions are made of plastic and millions of bright LED lights.