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Orchard Central Location Orchard Road, Singapore Opening date 2 July 2009 Developer Far East Organisation and OCBC Bank Management Orchard Central Private Limited Architect DP Architects No. of stores and services 400 maximum No. of anchor tenants 0 Total retail floor area 387,988 sq ft Parking Levels 9 & 10 (entire levels) Levels 5 & 8 (partial levels) No. of floors 12 floors and 2 basement floor retail Website Orchard Central 
Orchard Central under construction, taken on 23 April 2008 from the Pan Pacific Singapore hotel
Orchard Central (Chinese: 乌节中央城) is a shopping centre which is Singapore's tallest vertical mall. Shops have started opening since the end of May and its soft opening was on the July 2, 2009. The shopping centre sits on the land previously occupied by the Specialists Shopping Centre, which was torn down.
Designed by DP Architects as Singapore's first vertical mall standing 12 storeys above ground and 2 levels of basement. A super escalator on street level will take pedestrians up to Exchange@4 on Level 4. The mall is served by a total of 52 escalators (including 6 super escalators) and 12 glass elevators[1].
The mall boasts 160m frontage along Orchard Road (the shopping belt of Singapore), giving potential tenants visibility.
Orchard Central $9 million Art Trail
Worth over $9 million, the permanent display is curated by Singapore National Arts Council.
Artworks from international artists from US, Japan, Australia and Denmark were specially commissioned for the sites they now occupy.
The total development cost of the project is estimated to be more than S$650 million.
The shopping mall's 9 feature clusters are:- The Med (B2 to B1)
- B One (B1)
- Discovery Walk (L1)
- The Runway (L2 to L3)
- Indulge (L2 to L4)
- Exchange@4 (L4)
- The Ramp (L5 to L6)
- Verandah (L7 to L8)
- Rooftop (L11 to L12)
References
- ^ Ng Baoying (19 June 2009). "Orchard Central to woo shoppers by integrating with other malls". Channel NewsAsia.
External links
- Orchard Central website
- Information about Orchard Central on Singaporesights
- Photoset of Orchard Central on Flickr
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