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Johor Bahru City Square

Johor Bahru City Square Mall in 2011
Location	Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Coordinates	1°27′40.3″N 103°45′51.1″E / 1.461194°N 103.764194°E / 1.461194; 103.764194
Address	Johor Bahru City Square Shopping Mall 106 - 108 Jalan Wong Ah Fook
Opening date	1999
Owner	Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)
No. of stores and services	300+
No. of anchor tenants	Cathay Cineplex, Popular, Uniqlo, H&M, Sakae Sushi
Total retail floor area	41,800 m (450,000 sq ft)
No. of floors	7 (mall area), 3 basements
Parking	Yes
Website	www.citysqjb.com

Johor Bahru City Square is a shopping centre and office building close to the Johor–Singapore Causeway which borders the two countries in Wong Ah Fook Street, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

History

The building was opened in 1999. In 2000, the Mega Pavilion Cinema has been upgraded to Cathay Cineplex with new theatres at both level 5 and level 7. In 2005, the Singapore Visitor Centre was launched at the shopping mall. In December 2008, a pedestrian bridge connecting the building to the Southern Integrated Gateway (Johor Bahru Sentral railway station and the Sultan Iskandar Building) was opened. In mid-2016, Cathey Cineplex was changed to mmCineplexes while the facilities still remain the same.

Architecture

The building interior consists of a seven-storey mall with five levels of retail outlet space, including a thirty-six storey office block, which is divided into the lower, middle and upper zones. City Square has three floors of the basement car park. Level 6 has an outdoor garden, a pond and a green wall. The shopping mall total floors spread over an area of 41,800 m (450,000 sq ft) and consists of over 300 retailers.

Business

The shopping mall includes several anchor tenants and has various clothes, shoes, bags, electronic stores.

The shopping mall receives around 1.5 million visitors monthly. Due in part to its proximity to the Johor-Singapore Causeway, City Square attracts many shoppers from Singapore.

Ownership

The mall has a majority ownership by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, who owns more than 70% of City Square's shares. The remaining shares are divided between the Johor Bahru City Council and Iskandar Puteri City Council respectively.

See also

• List of shopping malls in Malaysia

References

1. Berita: Kios Pintar KWSP Kini Di Bank RHB Archived 11 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja, retrieved 16 February 2009
2. ^ "JB City Square a pride of 2 nations".
3. "Current_News". 12 August 2009. Archived from the original on 12 August 2009.
4. CorporateHistory: 1990 – 2006 : A Dream Come True Archived 4 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Cathay Cineplexes Malaysia, retrieved 16 February 2009
5. "Current_News". 12 August 2009. Archived from the original on 12 August 2009.
6. Temasek to enter Malaysian property market Eddie Toh, Business Alert/Singapore Business Times, 3 November 2004

External links

• Johor Bahru City Square on Facebook

• 1999 establishments in Malaysia
• Shopping malls in Johor Bahru
• Shopping malls established in 1999
• 20th-century architecture in Malaysia