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Forum The Shopping Mall

shopping mall

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ5473080 ↗
Source-derived summary

Forum The Shopping Mall (Chinese: 福临购物中心, Tamil: பாரம் அங்காடி ) is a shopping mall on Singapore's main shopping belt, Orchard Road. It was built on the site of the Singapura Forum Hotel. It is owned by Hotel Properties Limited (HPL).

Located along the upper stretch of Orchard Road and a five-minute walk from Orchard MRT station, the mall is anchored by Toys "R" Us and Julia Gabriel Centre.

History

In 2023, its parent company, HPL, obtained approval from Urban Redevelopment Authority to redevelop Forum The Shopping Mall, voco Orchard Singapore and HPL House into a mixed-use redevelopment.

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The public source identifies “Forum The Shopping Mall” as shopping mall. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Forum, Shopping and Mall.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Forum, Shopping and Mall providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5473080. Authority coordinates are 1.306, 103.829. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Forum The Shopping Mall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.