Raffles City is Associated With and Known as:
Raffles City is a Joint owned of CapitaCommercial Trust and CapitaMall Trust. Raffles City is located at downtown core in Singapore. Raffles City includes the Raffles city tower, Raffles city shopping centre, Fairmont Singapore, Swissotel the Stamford and Raffles city convention centre. Raffles City was designed by I. M. Pei who is the internationally acclaimed architects that was the largest development project which was Groundbreaking on 14th of August 1980 and officially opened on 3rd of October 1986. Raffles City position itself as fashion-forward mall and contemporary. Raffles City is bounded with the Bras Basah Road, North Bridge Road, Stamford Road and Beach Road.
Raffles City Features:
Beside the historic Raffles Hotel, the first school of Singapore was built as Raffles Institution which is designed with aluminum finish and simple geometric designs. The shopping malls of the Raffles City was renovated in 1990s and also expanded with new 30 to 50 more shops. The mall have many anchor tenants as the Dairy Farm Group with
Guardian pharmacy, higher end supermarket and jason’s Market Place, a local department store and Robinsons. Two hotels the Swissotel The Stamford and Raffles the Plaza were re-branded after the taking over of hotels management by the FRHI Hotels and Resorts on 1st of January 2002.
The two trusts expand the retail space from 150,000 to 200,000 sq ft from current 356,000 sq ft. From 2nd to 9th July 2005 the Raffles City Convention Centre on the fourth floor organizes the
Ioc Session event where the London was awarded with 2012
Summer Olympics. CAPITASTAR is a reward programme that is card-less reward where the rewards shopper with STAR$ on purchasing at participating outlets over across 17 CapitaMalls. Special discount offers are there for the tourists.