SM City Taguig
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SM Aura or SM City Taguig is an under-construction shopping mall Which will be the Part Called Bonifacio Civic Center owned by SM Prime Holdings
, the largest mall developer in the Philippines. The mall will be located along C5 Road cor M.H. Del Pilar Drive (near Sampaguita Interchange), Bonifacio Global City
, Taguig City
, Philippines
. It will be the first SM Supermall to be opened in Taguig City, and it will be situated near its rival mall Market! Market!, owned by Ayala Malls
, a real estate subsidiary of Ayala Land
, and affiliate of Ayala Corporation
. The mall is currently under finalization and is expected to begin construction by the fourth quarter of 2008. It is designed by EDGE Interior Designers and Arquitectonica
.
The West wing will have the SM Department Store on Upper Ground Floor and Second Floor. Cinemas 1 to 6 will be at the top floor (3rd Level). The Lower Ground floor will house the Ace Hardware and Storyland.
The SM Aura Complex will feature its own Convention Center that will serve the Bonifacio Global City community and the entire Taguig City. It will have a Radissson Blu-Global City Hotel, a Business Processing Outsourcing Building and an Office Building. SM Aura will also house the fifth IMAX
Theatre in the country.
SM Aura in Taguig aims to be the first mall in the country to be certified via LEED or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the internationally recognized standard for green building design and construction developed by the USGBC. SM Prime is undertaking other green initiatives, particularly with its new malls, which will be announced on their opening dates.
“We expect to complete the shopping center by 2011,” added the source privy to the negotiations.
The SM group’s expansion in Taguig, the source added, indicates its bullish outlook on the country’s fundamentals despite the challenges brought by the global financial crisis.
The Taguig property is part of the donation given by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority to the local government as its share in the Bonifacio Global City project.
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...
, the largest mall developer in the Philippines. The mall will be located along C5 Road cor M.H. Del Pilar Drive (near Sampaguita Interchange), Bonifacio Global City
Fort Bonifacio
Fort Bonifacio is a highly urbanized district in Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The district is named after the main Philippine Army camp in Metro Manila, Fort Andres Bonifacio, which in turn was named after the famous Philippine revolutionary hero Andres Bonifacio...
, Taguig City
Taguig City
Taguig is a city in Metro Manila in the Philippines. From a thriving fishing community along the shores of Laguna de Bay, it is now an important residential, commercial and industrial center...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. It will be the first SM Supermall to be opened in Taguig City, and it will be situated near its rival mall Market! Market!, owned by Ayala Malls
Ayala Malls
Ayala Malls is a real-estate subsidiary of the Ayala Land, an affiliate of Ayala Corporation, the oldest and one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines, owned by the Zobel de Ayala family. Ayala Malls own a chain of large shopping malls...
, a real estate subsidiary of Ayala Land
Ayala Land
Ayala Land, Inc. is the real estate arm of Ayala Corporation, one of the Philippines' oldest and largest conglomerates. From an internal division of Ayala Corporation, it was spun off and incorporated in 1988. It was publicly listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange in 1991...
, and affiliate of Ayala Corporation
Ayala Corporation
Ayala Corporation is a holding company for the diversified interests of the Ayala Group. Founded in the Philippines by the Spanish and German Ayala, Roxas, and Zobel families during colonial rule, it is the country's oldest and largest conglomerate...
. The mall is currently under finalization and is expected to begin construction by the fourth quarter of 2008. It is designed by EDGE Interior Designers and Arquitectonica
Arquitectonica
Arquitectonica is an international architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and urban planning corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States in the Coconut Grove neighborhood, with offices in ten other cities throughout the world...
.
Mall features
The East wing will house the Food Court and Surplus Shop at Lower Ground floor. SM Hypermarket, Entertainment Center and Watsons will be located at Upper Ground floor. The 2nd Level will house the SM Appliance Center. This wing will feature some upper class shops, a Jeepney terminal along C5 road, and an overpass crossing C5.The West wing will have the SM Department Store on Upper Ground Floor and Second Floor. Cinemas 1 to 6 will be at the top floor (3rd Level). The Lower Ground floor will house the Ace Hardware and Storyland.
The SM Aura Complex will feature its own Convention Center that will serve the Bonifacio Global City community and the entire Taguig City. It will have a Radissson Blu-Global City Hotel, a Business Processing Outsourcing Building and an Office Building. SM Aura will also house the fifth IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
Theatre in the country.
SM Aura in Taguig aims to be the first mall in the country to be certified via LEED or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the internationally recognized standard for green building design and construction developed by the USGBC. SM Prime is undertaking other green initiatives, particularly with its new malls, which will be announced on their opening dates.
Planning of SM Aura
The design of the shopping center is still being finalized but sources say it would cater to the upper market owing to its proximity to Ayala’s residential and commercial developments Serendra and Bonifacio High Street. Currently, Ayala’s mall development Market! Market! caters to all shoppers' basic needs along with some known local and imported brands.“We expect to complete the shopping center by 2011,” added the source privy to the negotiations.
The SM group’s expansion in Taguig, the source added, indicates its bullish outlook on the country’s fundamentals despite the challenges brought by the global financial crisis.
The Taguig property is part of the donation given by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority to the local government as its share in the Bonifacio Global City project.
Major anchors
- SM Department StoreSM Department StoreSM Department Store is the very foundation of SM. Being run by SM Investments, the holding company of the SM Group, SM Department Store is a founding retail center where we can find brands of fashion, footwear, bags, accessories, toys, gadgets and other brands of product...
- SM HypermarketSM HypermarketSM Hypermarket was started by the Sy family back in the late '90s in response to the growing needs of the market for more convenience. The hypermarket, a new retail format of combining a supermarket with a department store providing one-stop shopping concept was newly accepted by Filipino...
- SM Food Court
- SM Cinemas
- StorylandStorylandStoryland can refer to:* Storyland , a theme park in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada* Story Land, a theme park in Glen, New Hampshire* Rotary International Storyland and Playland in Fresno, California...
- IMAX Theater
Junior anchors
- SM Appliance Center
- Ace HardwareAce HardwareAce Hardware Corporation is a hardware cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. ACE Hardware Corporation, with 4,444 stores, does over $3 billion in retail hardware sales annually down from its peak of $12.5 billion in 2007.-History:...
- Surplus Shop
- Watsons
- National Bookstore
See also
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