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Northpoint City
Northpoint City in 2018
Map
LocationYishun, Singapore
Address930 Yishun Avenue 2
1 Northpoint Drive
Opening dateNovember 1992 (North Wing)
December 2017 (South Wing)
DeveloperFrasers Centrepoint
ManagementFrasers Centrepoint
OwnerFrasers Centrepoint Trust
No. of stores and services400
Total retail floor area1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m2)
No. of floors7
Public transit access NS13  Yishun
Yishun Bus Interchange
WebsiteNorthpoint City

Northpoint City (Chinese: 纳福城) is the first major suburban shopping mall in Singapore and is the largest shopping mall in Northern Singapore which opened in 1992.

Northpoint City is located opposite Yishun MRT station and next to the Yishun Bus Interchange. It completed asset enhancement works in early 2010 to refresh the mall and integrate it with its new extension. The centre has a combined net lettable area of 1,300,000 sq ft (120,000 m2), which consists of numerous retail stores. Other popular tenants include Cold Storage, Harvey Norman, POPULAR Bookstore, Timezone and Tenderfresh Classic

History

Opened in November 1992 as the first suburban mall (Northpoint Shopping Centre, Chinese: 纳福坊) in northern Singapore, it received a lot of publicity. As this is the first mall, it marked the first time some of these departmental stores or shops venturing to the heartlands of Singapore. Shops or brand name like Cold Storage, John Little, Swensen's, Giordano, Guardian, Photo Finish, Mark and Spencer's and Toys R Us opened their first outlet in the heartland. Northpoint underwent a temporary extension from 2001 to 2008, before a permanent extension was completed in November 2008.

In 2015, the Yishun Bus Interchange was demolished to make way for a new building, which will incorporate an extension of Northpoint Shopping Centre, the air-conditioned Yishun Bus Interchange and the Nee Soon Central Community Club, which will be the first of its kind in Singapore. On the top of the new building will be a 920 unit condominium called North Park Residences. They are expected to be completed in phases from 2017 to 2019.

In July 2017, Northpoint Shopping Centre was officially renamed to Northpoint City which its existing shopping centre will be renamed as its North Wing while the new extension will be named as South Wing. Existing tenants were retained, such as Cold Storage, Yishun Public Library, Kopitiam, EC House, Timezone and Rubi Shoes. The south wing of the mall was opened in December 2017, increasing the number of tenants to 500 and bringing new and exciting concepts, such as high street fashion and more food choices, including gourmet street Makan Town. Anchor tenants include a Harvey Norman superstore, Uniqlo, Anytime Fitness, NTUC FairPrice Finest and Halal food court Bagus. A sunken garden at Basement 1 connects the two wings together. [1]

Accessibility

Northpoint City is located beside Yishun MRT Station and Yishun Bus Interchange. It houses the new air-conditioned Yishun Bus Interchange which will open in 2019.

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