Tacloban’s Mall Aspiration: Update 4.15.08
A giant billboard has been put up at the Robinsons Place Tacloban site in Marasbaras, Tacloban City.
Here’s what it shows:
Photos taken today, April 15, 2008.
The following is quoted from the official disclosure filed by Robinsons Land Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission:
RLC TO BUILD FIRST MIXED-USE PROJECT IN EASTERN VISAYAS. PROJECT TO INCLUDE SHOPPING MALL & CALL CENTER IN A 4-HECTARE PROPERTY
Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC) recently unveiled its latest provincial mall
project in Tacloban City, Robinsons Tacloban, which is expected to break ground
by the 1st quarter of 2008 and with a scheduled opening by end of 2008.
The 2-level shopping mall will rise in a 4 hectare property along the National
Highway, Taboan, Marsabaras, Tacloban City, Leyte, the largest province in
Eastern Visayas. “We will be building a full service shopping mall with a gross
floor area of 30,000 square meters. Robinsons Department Store, Robinsons
Supermarket, Robinsons Appliances, Handyman Do It Best plus 3 cinemas will
be opening side by side with other establishments like food, fashion, & service
outlets to mention a few. Aside from these outlets, we are also welcoming both
national and local retailers to join us in our commercial centers undertaking,”
says Cornelio S. Mapa, Jr, general manager, Robinsons Malls.
Future developments are also expected to rise within the complex grounds which
include a site for a 3 storey call center building, with a 700 seat capacity. For
further information, please contact 6836100, locals 791, 6875681, local 357,
3952177.
source: http://www.pse.org.ph/html/disclosure/pdf/2007/pdf/dc2007-7405_RLC.pdf
View previous posts on Tacloban’s Mall Aspiration:
http://gerryruiz.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/taclobans-mall-aspiration/
http://gerryruiz.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/taclobans-mall-aspiration-update/
http://gerryruiz.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/taclobans-mall-aspiration-update-40908/
Wow!!! Thanks Gerry!
Makarit ngan maupay gud it iyo governador ngan mayor! Salamat nga imo ini igin pahibaro ha amon nga mga Taclobanon didi ha USA. Maduro na gud it amon kahidlaw hit Tacloban, nga makabakasyon o mauli kami dida hin diri uras pa (para magretire). Thanks again Mr. Ruiz.
Wow, that has to be the most least-inspired design for a mall, and it’s robinsons, no less; looks like something SM’s think tank would do. Just hope the interior is great.
That’s what I thought too. I was hoping they’d go for inexpensive-but-inspired. From the ground, this could look like just a concrete box. Heck, the Leyte Home Depot’s facade seems more interesting.
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Nevertheless, 3 cinemas!! Crap my pants! I don’t even care if they’re huge cinemas as long as they have good sound. 3 cinemas! Thank God!
I agree, it’s plain but I like it! I want this mall to do very well to encourage more investments of this nature
The most important thing is that this project would spearhead future investments in the city, as well as provide job opportunities, and revatilize small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Who knows? SM and Ayala might be next in line.
Mall designs tend to be “box” type and symmetrical, especially for this type of lot. I guess the play of massing at the front creates excitement. But I think this could have been designed much better. However, it looks like the interior wil be nice with the high ceiling at the entrance which will make it grandeur in appearance. I wonder who is the design architect of this one, Gerry? It should be posted on their billboard.
as the usual cliche, progress means more traffic in that area. hope they have plans for this eventuality. sigurado gud iton kay maguiguin congestion iton considering it junction ha coca-cola. before mag-open ini nga mall himo-an nira hin alternative roads para maibanan it volume of traffic.
abi nakog humana… hehehe very nice destination for Tacloban. My last visit to Tacloban was way back 1998. Now Robinsons has found its landmark in this city and part of Visayas.
Way back then the biggest department store was in downtown near the city<<>>. Go go Tacloban Gear Forward to Progress.
been away for almost 13 years now and oh… how i’ve missed my homeland. looks like there’s been a lot of changes there now.
finally tacloban city will have a mall. this time there’s something that i can show off to my friends. i can hardly wait. Gerry, thanks for posting or featuring robinsons mall. i’ll visit your calle z cafe this coming june and hope to meet you personally.
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Hi Virginia, will look forward to your visit come June. Please don’t hesitate to ask waiters around to call my attention when you come to calle Z. As you very well know, fiesta time in Tacloban usually packs the city to the brim with thousands of guests, balikbayans and reunion attendees coming home.
GO Tacloban! GO!GO!GO!
we hope the city’s favorite restobar of all restobars, calle Z - of course, who else? - will be at Robinsons as well…
may we look forward to this, Mr. Gerry?
hehe that remains to be seen as calle Z caters more to the night owl people
ano na it update hit construction? siguro human na it hira hit foundation kay waray man ada hiton basement. bangin iton first floor columns naka-tindug na. so excited to see the latest pics!
Foundation/first floor columns not done yet. All you’ll see are protruding steel bars for the columns.