Scitech Plaza, Shopping mall in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
Scitech Plaza is a shopping centre at 22 Jianguomenwai Avenue in Chaoyang District, Beijing, with 13,000 square metres of retail space. It reopened on 2 December 2023 as Scitech+ after more than three years of renovation, converted from a department store into a complex combining dining, retail and leisure.
Scitech Plaza opened on 20 December 1992 as Beijing's second Sino-foreign joint-venture mall, run with Japan's Yaohan, and among the city's first high-end department stores. It closed on 31 March 2020 for a renovation planned with Country Garden, which later withdrew; Gemdale took over and the project was renamed Scitech+. It reopened under that name on 2 December 2023 as a dining, retail and leisure complex.
The name "Scitech" (赛特, Sàitè) is a transliteration of the Sete Group brand, not a reference to science or technology. Since reopening in December 2023 as Scitech+, the mall has been positioned as a "new social gathering place for Beijing CBD", mixing dining, retail and leisure for office workers and younger shoppers.
Scitech Plaza stands at 22 Jianguomenwai Avenue in Chaoyang District, on the Jianguomenwai stretch east of the old city wall line. The building is a multi-storey complex with a basement level; the underground supermarket that once anchored it closed on 31 March 2020. After the 2023 reopening the floors mix dining, retail and leisure, so allow time to move between levels.
The mall was the first in Beijing to bring in luxury brands, to use computer-networked cash registers, and to employ staff with the highest educational levels; its basement Sete Supermarket was the city's first mainly selling imported goods.
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