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I-City

i-City is a 72 acres (29 ha) ICT-based urban development beside the Federal Highway in Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Planned by architect Jon A. Jerde, i-City was designed as a fully integrated intelligent city, comprising corporate, leisure and residential components such as a one-million-square-foot (93×10^3 m2) regional shopping mall, office towers, Cybercentre office suites, hotels, apartments, data centers, 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 Ministry of Tourism and declared as an International Park by the Selangor State Government. Such venues allow for entertainment and other cosmopolitan 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.

i-City plans to be a business location for six industry clusters, namely shared services and outsourcing, biotechnology, software development, as a media hub, an Islamic financial hub, and a data centre.

Jewel i-City, is a 381 m (1,250 ft) 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 381 m (1,250 ft). It will surpass the previous record holder, Central Offices Tower 2, The tallest building in Shah Alam as of today, when completed.

Within i-City, CityPark is the designated building to house MSC Malaysia-status companies. CityPark consists of 6 blocks and has a total office space of more than 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2). The entire i-City development will feature eight corporate office towers, two luxury hotels, two blocks of 24-story residences, three and five story shop-offices, and retail suites.

As of December 2019, Best Western International 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.

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 940,000 sq ft (87,000 m2) 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.

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