Went to the official opening of Tampines 1 last Friday. The ceremony was held at the rooftop terrace with host Adrian Pang. The official opening marks the 100 days since it open it doors to the public since 9th April 2009.

Here is the press release:

Tampines 1 celebrates Official Opening on 100th Day of Business
More than 6.6 million visitors since Tampines 1 opened its doors on April 9

Singapore, 17th July 2009 – Asiamalls, the property manager of Tampines 1, announced today that the mall has attracted 6,643,989 visitors, since the mall opened for business. Celebrating its official opening today, Tampines 1 opened its doors on 9th April, 2009 and has revitalized the shopping mix in Tampines Town by offering an exciting array of new concept stores alongside several international fashion brands like Cache Cache, Diva, Dorothy Perkins, Promod, Springfield, Topshop, and Uniqlo that have opened their first or largest stores in a suburban mall.

“We are happy to note that the overall opinion of the mall has been extremely positive and that consumers have acknowledged that Tampines 1 is a great alternative to downtown shopping. A lot of effort was spent to put the “urban” into Tampines 1, from the mall’s design to the overall retail mix, and brand strategy. All these initiatives helped us meet the expectations of a new generation of consumers who visit the mall to shop, dine and relax after work or over the weekend,” said Stephanie Ho, General Manager of Asiamalls Management (South East Asia) Pte Ltd, Property Manager for Tampines 1.

The basement piazza and open space within the mall demonstrates an atypical shopping mall layout, and combined with the layered voids and external roof terraces the interior design of the mall focused on ensuring a break in between the mall’s shopping space. F.I.S.H, Sushi Tei and Thai Express have duplex loft style restaurants that offer customers a unique ambience for dining. There is also a 24 hour Coffee Club for those looking for a place to enjoy a late meal or drink.

The mall has also installed a digital directory on each floor where customers can learn more about each individual shop with just a touch of a finger, or they can learn more about on-going promotions, or pick up the phone and speak with the mall’s customer service officers for directions or further information.

Tampines 1 has also launched an overall Spring to L1fe branding campaign targeted at showcasing what the mall offers and has its own mall blog, facebook and twitter account, which helps to further differentiate it as a new generation mall for the young and savvy.

The mall will organize a Sure-win Lucky Dip + 8 Malls & More Lucky Draw where shoppers can get a chance to win one of eight cars when they spend more than $50 in one single receipt before 25th September.

With a total of 173 tenants, the retail mix comprises of Fashion (35%) + Food (20%) + Beauty (12%) + Sportswear (3%) + IT/Electrical (5%) + Lifestyle/Gifts/Entertainment (25%). The mall features a cluster of mini-anchor tenants including a fitness centre with a pool – Amore Living, IT retailer Challenger, Cold Storage, HSBC, and Japanese Gourmet Town Manpuku.

Launch Videos

Links

• Site: Tampines 1
• Blog: Tampines 1
• Facebook Gallery: Photos Taken By Me

Tampines 1 will celebrate its official opening ceremony next week on the Friday, 17th July 2009 and on the Saturday, 18th July 2009, there will be a SWOP party at its Roof Garden.

The SWOP Party helps encourage recycling where anyone can come by to exchange their clothes and accessories with others. Highlights of the SWOP Party include donations from popular fashion brands like Adidas, Diva, Dorothy Perkins, Esprit, G2000, Springfield, and Topshop, free flow of ice-cream for participants, and live DJ music. Additionally, there will be a SWOP-me Cosy corner, to keep accompanying partners who are there to support their friend/ spouses entertained.

Here are the details:

• Date: 18 July 2009 (Sat)
• Time: 4.30pm to 6.30pm
• Venue: Tampines 1, Level 6 Roof Garden (Access via escalator next to Amore Living)
• Admission: $5.00 (non-refundable) and at least 5 fashion items in good condition

Iluma is one of the newest shopping center in town which is near Bugis MRT Station. It is located in between Queen Street and Victoria Street. It is quite huge and have 5 levels. I don’t think there is any basement level. I can’t seem to find a link to the official website.

Coffee Bean, Nichi Fashion City, Comics Connection, Pasta De Waraku, Thai Express, Asian Kitchen and many more are already opened for business. Nevertheless, the shopping center is still quite empty. In particular the lower levels shops are all not occupied. Come across this interesting shop called Otaku House, which sells cosplay clothes as well as Japanese Anime collectibles. There is also a new cinema at Iluma is called Film Garde, which if I am not mistaken also operates a cinema in Kallang Leisure Park.

There is this extremely long escalator which goes up to level 4 directly from level 1. I took the escalator and I think it takes 45 seconds to reach to level 4.

View From Queen Street

This Escalator Goes From 1st Level To 4th level!

View Of The Lower Levels

View Of The Upper Levels

View From A Small Open Space At level 5

Facebook Gallery: Iluma

I was at the Tampines 1 blogger mall tour and meet together session together with Li Xiang. The meeting time was 2pm, but we are slightly late a little. I apologized for that. We met at level 6 which is at the management office. Upon reaching level 5, we realized that there is no way up to level 6 as the lift button and escalator to level 6 was disabled. The only way up is from service stairs.

On the first day, an estimated 111,000 people visited Tampines 1 and on second day it rose to 143,000. All shopping malls are equipped with a human traffic counter at the top of all glass door entrances. I didn’t know about it actually. If you happen to note it next time, it is actually a little black box often mistaken as a sensor.

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Tampines 1 will be officially opened to the public this Thursday which is tomorrow.

Here is a snippet from the press release:

Singapore, 6 April 2009 – Tampines 1, Singapore’s newest shopping destination is 100% leased out and will open its doors to the public on 9 April 2009 at 10.00am. The 260,000-square feet six-storey modernist mall will house 172 tenants. More than 75% of tenants will open for business on the first day, including key tenants Amore Living, Challenger, Topshop, Topman, Uniqlo, and new Japanese concept gourmet town Manpuku.
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With Tampines 1 positioned as an iconic retail landmark for the young and savvy, other fashion stores opening for business on April 9 include Bossinistyle, Cache Cache, Diva, Dorothy Perkins, Mulana (new brand that will retail Korean contemporary hand crafted ladies apparel), numflipflops.com by Newurbanmale, Promod and Springfield.

The exciting lineup of fashion shops will include Singapore’s very own fashion stores such as Bus Stop, bYSI, Chameleon, Click!, Couple Lab, Dyel, Man Master, Maternity House, Mettalurgy, Mezzo Wear, Messy, Mitju, Natural Project, Net, New Maternity, Noda Shoe, Outfitter Girls, Petale Jewellery, Punk Star, Queen’s Avenue, Recoil, Runway 75, Secret Island by Sheer Romance, Silver Corner, Trend Corner, Two Elements, Vogue and Zeal.

Sports and Casual wear brands with shops at the new mall include Adidas, Puma, Kappa, Fila, Running Lab, Sportslink, World of Sports and New Balance, all located on the 3rd level of Tampines 1, making it a mini sports retail haven for shoppers.

Jewellery shops at the mall include I’NOVA by Citigems, Jewel Pavillion, Lee Hwa Galleria and TianPo.

F&B tenants opening on the first day include Bakerzin, Frolick, Hong Kong Kim Gary Restaurant, Max Sandwich Grill and Creamery (by Imperial Treasure Restaurant Group), Sake Inn, Secret Recipe, Subway, Yamazaki Boulangerie Chaude (by Sun Moulin, offering freshly baked English, Japanese and French breads and cakes).

Japanese Gourmet Town MANPUKU (the name means “full stomach” or “having eaten to one’s content”) will offer Japanese cuisine direct from the traditional establishments in Japan – Botejyu, Hokkyokusei and Toku Toku from Osaka, Yoshimi and Aoba from Hokkaido.

Celebrities who will be opening shops in the mall include Jeff Wang with a Taiwanese snack shop, Xiao Bar Wang, Shaun Chen with his optical shop, Monsoon Optics, Addy Lee, Mark Lee and Michelle Chia with their hair salon Twister.

Other familiar names that will have shops at Tampines 1 include key tenant Cold Storage, Mayer, Simmons, United Kids by Tom and Stephanie, Times Bookstores URBANWrite by Popular (trendy art paper and craft store), Velocity powered by City Chain, and one of Singapore’s leading travel agency, WTS Travel.

The mall will feature duplex stores for fashion brands Topshop and Topman, Esprit with its flagship store, and F&B tenants F.I.S.H by Fish & Co, Sushi Tei and Thai Express Bistro.

The mall will have a SISTIC counter at its Customer Service Centre and has full banking facilities by HSBC. Additional amenities available within the mall include handicapped toilets, nursing rooms, and Cash Card Top-Up Machines located at the Basement 2 carpark. The mall also offers loans for baby strollers, umbrellas and wheelchairs. Free wireless broadband access will also be available at Tampines 1.

The mall has 203 Basement parking spaces available and valet parking services will be available for visitors to Tampines 1 on Saturdays, Sundays, Eve of Public Holidays and Public Holidays (10.00am to 11.00pm) and Fridays (5.00pm to 11.00pm). The valet parking fee is a flat rate of $5 where the cost includes full day parking fees. Shoppers will also get to enjoy a $1 rebate from their $5 valet parking fee when they spend a minimum of $50 in a single same-day receipt at Tampines 1.

The mall’s opening hours is from 10.00a.m to 10.00p.m. Operating hours for the carpark will be from 6.00am to 12.30am, with $0.50 parking fees per half hour for weekdays, $0.55 per half hour and subsequently $0.35 every 15 minutes after the first 2 hours for weekends and public holidays.

*UPDATE* While you are searching on Tampines 1, do take a look at Tampines 1 Blogger Mall Tour & Meet Together Session.

Links

• Tampines 1
• Tampines 1 Blog