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i-City's City of Digital Lights.
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Coordinates | 3°03′57″N 101°29′00″E / 3.065954°N 101.483355°ECoordinates: 3°03′57″N 101°29′00″E / 3.065954°N 101.483355°E |
Opening date | December 2009 |
Area | 72 acres (29 ha) |
i-City is a 72 acre 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 1 million sq. ft. 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 9 billion project from MYR 1.5 billion in 2005.
i-City plans to be a business location for 6 industry clusters, namely shared services & outsourcing, biotechnology, software development, as a media hub, an Islamic financial hub, and a data centre.