Sofic Tower
The Sofic Tower or Thisofic Tower, originally named as Zone IIA Tower or Zone IIA HCMC, is a complex building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At its completion in 2019, it was the first mixed-used and office building to be inaugurated in the Sala City urban development, also the Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area. The tower has tally 20 floors with a height of and 4 basements.
The building is invested and owned by Đại Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Corporation , a subsidiary of THACO. It is located on Mai Chí Thọ Boulevard, Thủ Thiêm, Thủ Đức and is a part of the Zone IIA complex, a twin-building complex area comprising the lots 5-4 and 5-5 of functional area No. 5 of Thủ Thiêm urban area with the current completed building is in the latter lot, surrounded by streets of Mai Chí Thọ – Nguyễn Cơ Thạch – Hoàng Thế Thiện & D6; and the former is a showroom of THACO AUTO BMW temporarily, it is opposite the building by Nguyễn Cơ Thạch Street and borders with "Catfish" Canal Park but already planned for a building that has similar design and connected by a glass bridge.
History
At the end of 2014, Đại Quang Minh Company invested in main 4 axis roads that cost 8,265 billion VND in Thủ Thiêm Area with a total length of 11.9 km, including: R1 Crescent Boulevard, R2 Central Lake road , R3 Saigon Riverside Road , and R4 Elevated Road passing swamp area also the Thủ Thiêm Central Square & Riverside Park, Ba Son Bridge and Southern Delta Swamp Park Project through a BT form, an alternative form of BOT. This BT form leads to the government traded an over 100 hectares of the Functional Area 5 and 6 in the southeast of Thủ Thiêm Peninsula to build the Sala City urban development, including the Sofic Tower.Sofic Tower, temporary initial name is Thaco Office – Commercial – Service Building, was groundbreaking in September 21, 2015 and was expected to completed in Q3/2017. However, it was until two years later in Q3/2019, the office tower block was completed and three years later in November 2022, the podium was completed with the inauguration of Thiso Mall, Thiskyhall Sala Convention Center and the Emart underground supermarket.