i-City

i-City
	i-City's City of Digital Lights
Status	Operating
Area	29.16 ha (72.1 acres)
Coordinates	3.065954°N 101.483355°E
Opened	December 2009

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 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.

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