Junction 8 Shopping Centre

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Junction 8

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Junction 8 Shopping Centre with Bishan MRT Station in the foreground.
Location Bishan, Singapore
Opening date November 27, 1993
Management CapitaLand
Owner CapitaMall Trust
No. of stores and services 174
No. of anchor tenants 6
Total retail floor area 376,740 square feet (35,000 m2)
No. of floors 12
Public transit access NS17  CC15  Bishan
Website Junction 8
Entrance towards Junction 8 Junction 8 Shopping Centre, July 2017.jpg
Entrance towards Junction 8

Junction 8 (Chinese :碧山第八站; pinyin :dì bā zhàn, stylised as JUNCTI8N) is a popular heartland shopping mall located in the centre of Bishan. It is located outside Bishan MRT station and Bishan Bus Interchange. The name of this shopping centre was derived from the old station numbering of the North South Line sector of nearby Bishan (N8). [1]

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History

Completed in November 1993, Junction 8 was the second suburban mall to open in Singapore, after Northpoint in Yishun. When it first opened, it had 73 tenants, such as a Daimaru department store and supermarket, a Golden Village cineplex, Food Junction's first outlet, a SAFE Superstore and various tenants settling in a mall environment for the first time.

In 2004, the mall had an expansion block expanded to accommodate more retail spaces and a linkbridge was built, connecting to the car park opposite the mall. Daimaru was replaced by NTUC Fairprice and Seiyu during the former's exit from Singapore in 2003. The roof garden was relocated from Level 2 to Level 3, equipped with a children's playground and an event plaza. Also, the office tower space was decanted into the retail mall, and was subsequently leased to voluntary welfare organisations. In 2013, it underwent a major renovation, repainting its exterior and refreshing the interior of the mall. The children's playground was also renovated. The mall's basement was connected to the southbound platform of Bishan MRT station too, which is connected from the NTUC FairPrice Finest, where shoppers can bring their trolleys to the trolley bay at Bishan MRT Station, before tapping the card to go to the next destination.

NTUC FairPrice Co-Operative is a supermarket chain based in Singapore and the largest in the country. The company is a co-operative of the National Trades Union Congress or NTUC. The group has 100 supermarkets across the island, with over 50 outlets of Cheers convenience stores island-wide.

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References

  1. ↑ Cheong Suk-Wai (2 April 2006). "It's a MALL world after all". The Sunday Times . Singapore.
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