Jurong Point (
Chinese:裕廊坊) is a large regional shopping mall in the precinct of
Jurong West Central
Jurong West Central is a subzone of Jurong West, located in the West Region of Singapore. This is the town centre of Jurong West.
Transport
Roads
There are 4 main roads in this subzone – Boon Lay Way, Jalan Boon Lay, Jurong West Avenue 4/2 a ...
in
Jurong West
Jurong West is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential town located in the West Region, Singapore, West Region of Singapore. Jurong West shares Wiktionary:boundary, boundaries with Tengah, Singapore, ...
,
Singapore
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. It is next to
Boon Lay
Boon Lay (, ) is a neighbourhood located in the town of Jurong West in the West Region, Singapore, West Region of Singapore. Its borders very roughly correspond to the URA subzone of Boon Lay Place, situated within the Jurong West Planning Area. ...
MRT station and
Boon Lay Bus Interchange. It is currently the largest shopping mall in Singapore in terms of number of tenants and the largest in western Singapore. There are more than 400 shops spanning across 4 levels, attracting more than 5 million visitors each month.
History
Jurong Point first opened its doors in December 1995 with 95 retailers including Courts,
Golden Village
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,
NTUC FairPrice
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, Kopitiam,
Old Chang Kee,
Harvey Norman
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(previously SAFE superstore) and Soo Kee Jewellery. Majority of these retailers were setting up shop in a mall environment for the first time and have not moved out since then. The mall once housed the Jurong West Public Library, which was then the first public library in Singapore to be located in a shopping mall.
Since its opening, the mall has undergone two expansions. In 1998, an additional of space was successfully secured for the first extension of Jurong Point, which opened in December 2000, adding more than 160 new tenants. This also brought major department store John Little. In 2005, Jurong West Public Library moved out to the adjacent community club and its premises, along with Levels 5 and 6 were reconfigured into a community hub.
In 2006, the mall underwent a major expansion, which included building a new retail wing (JP2), the air conditioned
Boon Lay Bus Interchange and a residential development, The Centris. The new wing, containing 230 shops, opened in December 2008. The original mall was subsequently renamed as JP1. This also brought in several new anchor tenants, including an NTUC Fairprice Xtra hypermarket and child-care centre operator My First Skool. The number of parking lots increased three-fold from 415 to 1,425. The Centris was completed in August 2009, followed by the Boon Lay Bus Interchange in December that year.
John Little closed its last suburban store there in July 2016 and was replaced by BHG, which opened in December that year. Operations closed down on 13 February 2022 and replaced by three stores:
Daiso
is a franchise of 100-yen shops founded in Japan. Its headquarters are in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Daiso has locations in 25 countries and regions worldwide.
History
Daiso was originally opened as a street vending shop with ...
on the third floor which includes Threeppy and Standard Products.
Also replaced is
Timezone on the second floor and
Haidilao
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on the first floor. NTUC FairPrice operations closed down on 21 June 2022 and replaced by
Don Don Donki. Cotton On closed down operations on 1 April 2025, and the 15-year lease expired.
Gallery
File:JurongPoint-oldbuilding-20050119.jpg, Old building of Jurong Point
File:Jurongpointnewbuilding.jpg, View of new building
References
External links
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{{Singapore malls
Shopping malls established in 1995
1995 establishments in Singapore
Shopping malls in Singapore
Jurong West