has been chosen as ICSC’s Best-of-the-Best Award winner in the Design and Development category.    

CentralWorld was presented its award during the annual Best-of-the-Best Awards ceremony that took place during the “Night of the Stars” gala, at RECon 2010 on Sunday, May 23 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.   The Best-of-the-Best Awards honor and recognize the most outstanding examples of shopping center design and development, sustainability, marketing, and community service worldwide. 

“The ‘Best-of-the-Best Awards’ sets the bar for what the retail real estate industry has come to expect from its owners and developers, said Michael P. Kercheval, president and CEO of ICSC.  “CentralWorld created a unique and exceptional design that helped set it apart from the rest of the industry,” added Kercheval.

CentralWorld underwent a successful multi-million dollar transformation that created a visually and physically accessible mixed-use complex with over 2 million square feet of retail space.  The new center now connects directly to the elevated light rail and busy ground level major cross streets, creating a myriad of new opportunities to engage the public. CentralWorld takes full advantage of its lengthy frontage along Bangkok’s prime retail street, Rajdamri, to engage shoppers in its variety of external and internal civic spaces.

Founded in 1957, ICSC is the premier global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 60,000 members in over 90 countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, retailers, and brokers, as well as academics and public officials.