Forest City Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary -

(Newswire.net — January 18, 2021) — Johor Bahru, 20 December 2020: Forest City, located in Iskandar Economic Zone, celebrates its 5th anniversary. Since its establishment, Forest City has successfully transformed from a city developer to a city operator and has been committed to becoming an environment-friendly and multi-cultural comprehensive city, green, smart, and industrial integration city.

Forest City provides perfect intelligent security solutions and urban management services and lay a solid industrial foundation for the long-term development of the regional economy. Forest City will become a model of future industrial integration and livable city.

Reminiscing over the past five years, Forest City has achieved significant milestones.

Green City

Forest City always adheres to sustainable development and spares no effort in environmental protection and green ecological construction.

Since 2014, Forest City Malaysia has cooperated with professional environmental consultant AES, hydrological consultant DHI, University Putra Malaysia, and other research institutions to monitor and improve the marine ecosystem around the Forest City. Besides, the landscape team of Forest City has developed a mangrove conservation plan.

As an important supporting facility of the city, the first stage exhibition hall of Eco-Museum has been completed and opened on 21 September 2020. The Eco-Museum will become a knowledge exchange platform for residents, local communities, and other environmental volunteers.

Forest City is also the advocator of “sponge city”. So far, four sewage treatment plants have been built, with a total treatment capacity of about 170400 person-times. After an advanced ecological sewage treatment system and wetland treatment, the effluent quality reaches the class IIB standard, which is higher than the general discharge standard of Malaysia. And the wastewater will be used for roof garden irrigation, vertical greening, outdoor landscape, and public toilet flushing for recycling to improve environmental and economic benefits. This project makes the Forest City win the title of the 2020 Asian Townscape Award.

Moreover, Forest City has taken the lead in carrying out a number of environmental movements that have become a landmark project of Forest City, connecting residents, local communities, NGOs, and surrounding school buildings to implement green initiatives.

The truth is that the action of Forest City Malaysia has received the support of various volunteers and attracted them to participate in the green cause and form a green culture.

Smart City

In terms of urban operation, Forest City starts from five aspects of intelligent management, intelligent transportation, intelligent security, intelligent community, and smart home. It improves the experience of urban residents and enterprises through science and technology.

Forest City spares no effort in industrial development. Many high-tech industries, such as education, medical treatment, tourism, and intelligent building, have been formed here. Among them, Forest City Shattuck-St. Mary’s School provides education courses from kindergarten to high school under the US syllabus. Shattuck-St. Mary’s School was built in 1858, it is one of the oldest collegiate (pre-university) in Midwest of America.

Furthermore, The IBS Phase I plant of Forest City has the largest single plant production capacity in Asia. It is designed to produce 260,000 cubic meters of concrete annually, which can provide components for equivalent to 1 million square meters of construction area. In April 2019, the IBS plant was awarded “The Largest Fully Automated IBS Plant” by the Malaysia Book of Records.

After five years of development, Forest City has formed the shape of a city, and has also made a huge contribution to the economic and social development of Johor, Malaysia. Let us count on the achievements of Forest City with the following figures. (Statistics as of November 2020)

The total investment of Forest City has exceeded RM 20 billion, with a total planned reclamation area of 30 square kilometers. To date, the completed reclamation area is about 9,088,838 square meters, and the road mileage has reached 35,969 meters.
To date, the total construction area of Forest City is about 4 million square meters, equivalent to 560 international standard football fields, or 60 Palace of Versailles, or 4 times the total area of Changi Airport terminals.
As of now, Forest City has paid a total sum of around RM 759 million in taxes and fees to different government bodies of Malaysia and created 11077 job opportunities for upstream and downstream industries.
In terms of CSR, Forest City has invested more than RM 140 million in environmental protection, and more than RM 53 million for charity, including the adoption of 7 local schools and 7 local villages.

The green journey will continue

In 2020, Forest City published Forest City Ecological Development Action Plan in conjunction with its 5th anniversary. This plan outlined the mission of Forest City ecological development, and clearly defined the goals and targets of eco city development, operation and management. Following this plan, Forest City will carry out green infrastructure development as a foundation, leverage on high-tech industries to enhance urban economic development, and eventually become a green and vibrant city with diversified industries and cultures.

Looking forward to the future, Forest City Malaysia will continue to firmly move towards the direction of industrial integration, livable, green, and ecological city. It will continue to introduce high-tech industries, promote economic development, and provide more intelligent and safer urban management services for residents.

About Forest City

The Forest City is the project of Country Garden in Malaysia, aiming to develop and operate a green, smart and ecological city for people. Famous for the vertical greening, the leading IBS in Asia, international golf resort and Phoenix Hotel, Forest City is getting more and more attention. In the future, Forest City will still strive for its ultimate mission to develop an ideal and technology-driven living and working ecosystem.