I-City
i-City is a 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 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 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 2005. Overview. 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. Buildings. 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 . 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. Hotels. 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. 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. 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 arctic environment attraction with 100 tons of ice sculptures that were shaped by a team of 30 ice sculptors from Harbin, China. With temperatures below and of snow on the ground, SnoWalk will be 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 water slides. Red Carpet 2. Red Carpet 2 is Malaysia's first home-grown interactive wax museum. Measuring up to , Red Carpet 2 allows visitors to have fun with their favorite Superheroes like the Avengers, Royals, Head of States, Sci-fi, Tech Giants like Jack Ma and Mark Zuckerberg, Corporate Movers, MTV, Outer Space, Magical World, K-pop (Hallyu), Canto pop, Oscars, A-List artistes and more. 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  2010 World Cup, i-City also showed the matches live from Johannesburg on its video wall, the largest video screen in Southeast Asia. It has also hosted MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia, in July 2011. Miscellaneous. "True Discovery" is a reptile exhibition located behind Old Town White Coffee Shop. It houses a reptile collection as well as exotic animals like snakes and tarantulas. 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.