Manila, Philippines - Gokongwei-led
Robinsons Land Corp. (RLC) is scaling up its presence in Cebu with a planned
mixed-use complex that will house its biggest shopping mall outside Metro
Manila, plus a budget hotel and office spaces catering to the business process
outsourcing industry.
Robinsons Galleria Cebu, the group’s
38th mall, is targeted for completion and opening in 2014. The seven-story
commercial building will rise on a 4.6 hectare lot along Gen. Maxilom Ave. and
will have a gross floor area of about 156,000 square meters.
On the same site will rise the first
Cebu branch of the group’s budget hotel gohotel.ph, which will offer 153 rooms.
Three floors are dedicated for BPO space with over 9,000 square meters of
leasable space.
The retail component, on the other
hand, will have a gross leasable area of 56,000 sqm spread on four levels.
RLC president Frederick D. Go said the
company is ramping up investments in Cebu, which is experiencing robust
economic growth and a booming tourism sector.
Robinsons Galleria Cebu will be RLC’s
third mall in Cebu after Robinsons Fuente and Robinsons Cybergate Cebu, which
is a mixed-use mall and office development also in the Fuente Osmeña area.
The company currently operates the
newly renovated and improved Summit Circle Hotel in Fuente Osmeña Circle. The
group will soon have three hotels in Cebu, including the Summit Shores Resort
hotel which will be part of the upscale Amisa residential development on Mactan
Island.
RLC is also building the Azalea
Residences, a residential development in Gorordo Ave. Other RLC residential
projects include Blue Coast and Aspen Heights which are under the Robinsons
Communities and Robinsons Homes brands, respectively.
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