Top 5 reasons for picking South Forbes

MANILA, Philippines - It is not often that there are places near our homes with much to offer. While Metro Manila does have virtually everything we need, usually in the malls, we often find ourselves travelling great distances over several hours or different locations if only to get what we want.

And then there is South Forbes Golf City, the country’s largest fully integrated and all-themed golf resort city at the forefront of the Metro Sta. Rosa-Tagaytay corridor, where practically everything is just a short walk or transit ride from home. It’s just plain convenient, healthy, and safe.

“Our 5 Clusters of Excellence is our greatest highlight which earned us the Best Golf Community Development by the 2007 CNBC International Property Awards, the world’s most prestigious property awards programme, and, recently, the Highly Commended Award for Best Development by the 2010 Bloomberg Asia-Pacific Residential Award,” said Cathay Land president Jeffrey Ng. “It consists of an internationally-themed Residential Cluster which is supported in full synergy by the Education, Business, Wellness, and Leisure Clusters.”

Celebrate many a gala at the Chateaux de Paris clubhouse.

South Forbes, over the years, has grown into a thriving community with several themed enclaves completed and moved in with residents. The first of many is the quaint Mediterranean Villas where Spanish-inspired villas fill a community reminiscent of the Iberian coast. Other Western-themed enclaves include the regal Châteaux de Paris, the chic Miami, and the sleek Scandia Suites.

The Oriental touch is alive, too, in South Forbes through its walled Asian community, The Mansions. Three enclaves belong to this neighborhood: the warm Bali Mansions, the tranquil Tokyo Mansions, and the tropical Phuket Mansions. And just beyond The Mansions gate is South Forbes’ most prestigious developments: the soaring Sentosa Heights enclave and the Golf View Terraces where their residents enjoy the coveted golf course view from their balconies.

Yoda succinctly pointed out how truly wonderful the mind of a child is and this is something that should be nurtured through good education.

Presently, South Forbes’s Education Cluster is home to the Learning Links Academy of Sta. Rosa which offers pre-school to secondary levels and with a day care center to boot. The recently opened South Forbes City Colleges, in partnership with Global City Innovative Colleges, has modern facilities equipped with fiber optic connectivity to insure that the future potential applicants and enrollees will be educated and trained on an international standard.

The Cyberpark, the heart of South Forbes’ Business Cluster, will feature world-class, built-to-specification buildings suited for BPOs and other businesses.

Residents can open business at the South Boulevard Commercial Strip or along Rodeo Drive which form a circumference around the City Center. This way, parents can be home in minutes to spend more quality time with their children. At South Forbes’ main entrance runs its main avenue, Orchard Drive, where these businesses can be built so near Balibago Road.

The Meiji in Tokyo Mansions is poetic in white and wood.

The pride of the Wellness Cluster is the Astoria Plaza - South Forbes Business Hotel and Conference Center which houses the spa and specialist clinics to serve the wellness requirements of the young, adult, and even the retirees from here and abroad, all will be well. Hospitals like the Southern Luzon Hospital and Medical Center will offer nothing but the best medical facilities and treatment.

These days, people just work themselves to the bone that they deserve to take a break from it all. And living in a city which has a reply to every yearning, certainly, South Forbes residents will take advantage of it all.

The nearest place where residents can unwind and just let their hair down is the village clubhouse. A quick dip into the swimming pool can immediately melt the stress off those weary bodies and wash them away with the ripples. The sportier ones can exhaust themselves in fitness training at the Sports and Country Club.

For a great dose of retail therapy without breaking the wallet, the City Center is the shopping, entertainment, and dining mecca of South Forbes. Its main feature is a lagoon where all shops radiate from it. The place reflects the town center design which is compact, human-scale, and entirely pedestrian.

But the centerpiece of this golf resort city is the world-class 18-hole South Forbes Golf and Leisure Club where membership comes free with every lot or condominium unit purchase at no activation cost. 

Call 635-7777 or 631-8855 for a free city tour or log on to www.southforbes.com for information.