Added: Oct 6, 2008
From: kg6pioneer
Duration: 3:18
a trip in the newSM City Marikina is a shopping mall owned and managed by SM Prime Holdings. SM Supermalls is owned by Henry Sy, Sr.. SM City Marikina was designed by EDGE Interior Design Pty. Ltd., a design consultant based in Australia, together with SM City Marikinas design team includes Jose Siao Ling and Associates, architects; D.A. Abcede and Associates, project managers, and BF Construction Corporation, the general contractors of the mall. SM City Marikina is a part of SM's 50th Anniversary and it was the first SM mall to open on 2008. It is the 31st SM Supermall built in the Philippines, 14th latest SM Mall built within Metro Manila, and 3rd among other SM malls opened in the eastern region of Metropolitan Manila, after SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City and SM Supercenter Pasig in Pasig City (excluding nearby SM City Taytay in Rizal Province). SM City Marikina is a strategically located beside the current rehabilitation and development of Marikina River and Marikina Riverbanks Center, and situated along Marcos Highway, Barangay Calumpang, Marikina City. It has a total of 60,000 square meter land area and a total of 124,877.85 square meter gross floor area. SM City Marikina is envisioned to become one of the largest malls in Metro Manila in terms of land and its floor areas, and is set to become the largest mall in eastern region of Metro Manila when the proposed Annex building will be completed, surpassing the GFA of near malls: Sta. Lucia East Grandmall, Robinsons Place Metro East and Riverbanks Centermall, all situated in Marcos Highway, Marikina City. SM City Marikina was opened to public on September 5, 2008, with opening ceremonies and ribbon cutting headed by MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando, Marikina City Mayor Marides Fernando and among other city officials. Together with the owner of SM Prime Holdings Henry Sy; SM Prime Holdings President Hans T. Sy and SM Supermarket President Herbert T. Sy, and the delegates, celebrity guests, and shop managers and owners. The mall was blessed by Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes. The inauguration underscored the long relationship between SM, founded by Henry Sy Sr. as a shoe store (Shoemart) in 1958, and the shoe city of Marikina. On its grand opening day, the people arrived at the Mall was reached to 100,000. ly opened Sm Marikina.
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