SM City Rosales
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SM City Rosales is a shopping mall owned by SM Prime Holdings
SM Prime Holdings
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. or SM Prime is the parent company of the SM Group's shopping malls. It is the largest shopping mall and retail operator in the Philippines...

 located along MacArthur Highway in barangay Carmen East, Rosales, Pangasinan. It is the first SM Supermall in the province of Pangasinan. It has a land area of 121,685 m² and a total gross floor area of 60,898 m² with major anchors like the SM Department Store and the SM Hypermarket and junior anchors like the SM Appliance Center, National Bookstore, Ace Hardware and Watsons.

Typhoon Parma devastation

On October 8, 2009, the mall was not spared from Typhoon Parma (2009)(Pepeng) as floodwaters entered the ground level of the mall. Merchandise and fixtures owned by the mall's anchor stores and tenants were swept away by the raging flood caused by torrential rains brought by the typhoon. Around 1,000 people, including a pregnant woman, were stranded inside the mall complex. The mall's rooftop became a drop-off point for the rescue workers that were deployed to bring relief goods to the affected residents in the nearby areas.

Barely two months after being devastated, the shopping mall re-opened to the public on November 27, 2009.

Transportation

The mall contains a Public Transport Terminal, with vans, jeepney, and tricycle service to nearby areas. It also serves as a bus stop the inter-provincial bus lines, FiveStar , Victory Liner , Partas , Genesis , Viron Transit, Santrans, Dagupan Bus Company, De Leon Express and Amianan
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