SM City Cabanatuan

SM City Cabanatuan

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Location Maharlika Highway, Km 112 Brgy. H. Concepcion, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija
Opening date October 9, 2015
Developer SM Prime Holdings
Management SM Prime Holdings
Owner Henry Sy, Sr.
No. of stores and services 300+
No. of anchor tenants 15
Total retail floor area 154,020 m2 (1,657,900 sq ft)[1]
No. of floors 5 (including 1 basement parking)
Parking 2,534

SM City Cabanatuan (commonly called SM Cab) is a shopping mall owned by SM Prime Holdings in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija. It is SM Prime's second supermall in the city, after SM Megacenter Cabanatuan. Its gross floor area (GFA) of 154,020 m2 makes it the largest shopping mall north of Metro Manila from the time it opened on October 9, 2015 up to the present.

History

SM Prime first announced their interest to put up a supermall in Cabanatuan City in 2002 but politics hindered the project's implementation. The 25-hectare (250,000 m2) land acquired by the company in Brgy. Sta. Arcadia laid bare for a decade. Renewed interest came in 2012 when the company made press releases about its upcoming mall in Cabanatuan City. It also marked a new set of negotiations and land acquisition on land plots along Maharlika Highway in Brgy. H. Concepcion. The lot in Sta. Arcadia was set aside for future development. In the new site, the company initially acquired 10 hecatares (100,000 m2) which increased to 14 hecatres (140,000 m2) before construction of the mall commenced. Architects of Jose Siao Ling and Associates were responsible for the design of a 65,000 m2, 5-story mall. This design just became a precursor to the final when later demographic survey conducted by SM Prime in 2013 revealed Cabanatuan's daytime population almost reaches a million, larger than previously thought, thus necessitating a revision in the malls preliminary design. Revision took almost a year, finally revealing in September 2013 the design with the mall's current GFA. Building works started in December 2013 and finished in October 2015.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SM City Cabanatuan: SM Opens New Destination Mall at the Gateway of the North". October 8, 2015. SM Prime Holdings
Preceded by
SM City San Mateo		 53rd SM Supermall
2015 		Succeeded by
SM Center Sangandaan

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