SM City Marikina

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SM City Marikina is a shopping mall owned and developed by SM Prime Holdings owned by Henry Sy. On the other hand, BF Construction is also a developer of this mall and its main role is to design and construction of the mall. SM City Marikina is a strategically located beside the Marikina River and Marikina Riverbanks Center, and situated along Marcos Highway corner Marikina East Service Road, Barangay Calumpang, Marikina City. SM City Marikina is envisioned as one of the biggest malls in Metro Manila in terms of land area, with a total of 60,000 m², and is set to become the largest mall in eastern Metro Manila, its GFA with a total of 124,877.85 m², will surpass the combined GFA of its near mall, Sta. Lucia East Grandmall. SM City Marikina was original set to open on April 2008, but it was moved to June 2008, and it was moved again by mid-July 2008, with opening ceremonies headed by Henry Sy, owner of SM Prime Holdings, along with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando and Marikina City Mayor Marides Fernando.

[edit] History

The SM City Marikina is the 31st chain of malls of SM. It is located in Marcos Highway, Marikina City. The mall sat besides the riverbanks of Marikina River. This mall is envisioned to become one of the biggest malls in Metro Manila in terms of land area, which is 60,000 m². The location of the mall is very accessible because major transportation runs in Marcos Highway. It is also near the boundary of provinces and cities such as Quezon City, Pasig and Rizal. The malls have 6 floor levels. The first 2 levels will serve as parking area. It has 8 movie houses on the top floor, SM Department stores, Entertainment Plaza, Cyberzone, SM Appliance Center, SM Hypermarket, SM Foodcourts and areas for their tenants. An ordinary person will notice that the mall has many elevated roads leading to the entrance. It is because of the high elevation of Marcos Highway so the main entrance of the mall is in the 3rd floor.

[edit] The Mall

The Mall features a 6-level Main building (4 upper levels will function as the Mall and 2 lower levels, especially first level, will serve as its carpark) with lower and upper basements. An open-air parking area is located at the back and front of the Mall. Aside from that, there are 2 basement areas on the building, the lower and upper ground floors. Notice that SM City Marikina has many elevated roads around it due to high elevation of Marcos Highway, that's why the Main entrance was located on its 3rd level, which provide access along Marcos Highway. There are also specialize elevated roads (bridges) to connect on it, one is Marcos Highway bridge which all vehicles from Antipolo City going to Quezon City has direct access to the Mall, and also an interchange which all vehicles has provide access in different points in Metro Manila, particularly in NAIA, Makati City, Ortigas Center, Eastwood City and other areas in Metro Manila.

The Mall have a total of 8 cinemas, mostly on its top floors, SM Department Stores, SM Hypermarket, Center Stage (Entertainment Hall), SM Appliance Center, SM Foodcourts and Supermarkets and other SM tenants.

[edit] Major Anchors

• SM Department Store
• SM Hypermarket
• SM Cinemas
• SM Food Court

[edit] Junior Anchors

• Center Stage
• Ace Hardware
• Toy Kingdom
• Watsons

[edit] Expansion

SM Prime Holdings and BF Construction was planning to build the Building 2 (Annex) of SM City Marikina and its location is at the back of the Main building, envisioned to be the sixth largest mall of SM in the Philippines after SM Mall of Asia, SM City North EDSA, SM Megamall, SM City Cebu and SM City Fairview.

[edit] External links

• SM Department Stores. Official website.
• SM Prime Holdings. The official website of the parent company.
• SM Supermarket. The official website of SM Supermarket
• Worlds Largest Shopping Malls by Forbes Magazine