VivoCity (GPS: 1.26463, 103.82232) is a shopping mall in Singapore. It is located at Harbourfront Walk off Telok Blangah Road, within the Maritime Square subzone of Bukit Merah planning area. It has its soft opening on 7 October, 2006, and was official opened on 1 December 2006. VivaCity occupies the former site of the exhibition halls of the World Trade Centre, which is now renamed the HarbourFront Centre.
VivoCity has a gross area of 1,500,000 square feet (139,000 sq meters), of which 1,100,000 square feet (102,000 sq meters) is given to retail space, making it bigger than Suntec City Mall and Ngee Ann City, but smaller than Bangkok's CentralWorld Plaza. VivoCity was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, and built at a cost of S$417 million.
Since its opening, VivoCity has become the official venue for the live televised New Year countdown. So far, the countdown concerts have been held at the rooftop amphitheatre on 31 December 2006 and 31 December 2007 for the 2007 and 2008 celebrations respectively.
VivoCity has Singapore's largest cineplex, with 15 screens, operated by Golden Village. It includes one of the largest cinema screens in Southeast Asia. Anchor tenants include Toys "R" Us and retail giant Dairy Farm, which operates Cold Storage, Shop N Save, Giant Hypermarket, 7-Eleven and Dairy Farm. VivoMart is a hypermart with a gourmet food section. There is also the Giant Hypermarket on basement two and level one. Cold Storage operates Naturally Marketplace on level one as well as Guardian Pharmacy. There are two huge food courts at VivoCity, one by the Kopitiam Group and another, the Food Republic, by the BreadTalk Group.
On the third level of VivoCity, just above the HarbourFront MRT Station, is the Sentosa Monorail Station. This is the mainland station of the Sentosa Express, the monorail line that takes you to presently three different locations on Sentosa Island. The fare is S$4.00 (as of Dec 2019) which can be paid by cash, credit card or EZ-Link Card, allowing you unlimited rides on the Sentosa Express and entry to Sentosa Island.
View of Sentosa Island from VivoCity (8 July, 2017)
Escalator atrium at VivoCity. (8 July, 2017)
Concourse at VivoCity. (8 July, 2017)
Interior of VivoCity. (8 July, 2017)
Food Republic food court at VivoCity shopping mall (8 July 2011)
Interior of Food Republic food court at VivoCity. (8 July 2011)
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