MANILA, Philippines -Just in time for Christmas, great shopping, leisure, and entertainment goes to the South Metro area with the recent opening of SM BF Parañaque. SM Prime’s 48th supermall is the fifth in the South Metro area after SM Southmall, SM City Sucat, SM City Bicutan, and SM Center Las Pinas.
The city’s top officials led guests during the mall’s blessing. Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivares, Vice Mayor Rico Golez, Congressman Eric Olivares (First District), Congressman Gus Tambunting (Second District), and land owner Ofelia Viola.
SM officials led by SM founder and chairman Henry Sy Sr., Felicidad T. Sy, SM Prime Holdings president Hans T. Sy, and vice chairman for Food Retail Group Herbert T. Sy welcomed them.
Located on a prime 25,079-sq.m. site along the Dr. A. Santos and President’s Avenue, the 120,390-sq.m. three-level mall will serve shoppers in the Parañaque, Las Pinas, and Alabang area. This is a leading commercial and residential area known for upscale subdivisions, schools, and business establishments.
The BF Homes area, where it’s located, has been known as a preferred place of residence for many years. It was the first gated community of its kind to have its own convenience store, movie theater, bowling alley, as well as a few commercial complexes: all unheard of in the 1970s. Today, it is known as a food hub in Metro Manila similar to that of Tomas Morato in Quezon City.
The new mall creates a memorable identity with bold, varied, and dynamic exterior wall surfaces that create a vivid backdrop for several strategically located and prominent entrances.
All entrances provide shelter from the elements for shoppers as they approach the mall. Colors are bright and strategically applied to create a dynamic façade, creating visual interest.
Shoppers arriving in private cars are quickly guided from the surrounding streets to a prominent ramp that will take them to ample parking at the top of the mall. Whether entering the mall from the street or from the rooftop parking, all shoppers will have convenient access into the heart of the SM City BF Parañaque shopping experience.
The mall’s interiors are organized around a soaring three-level central atrium, complemented by a faceted mall, both generously sized and configured to allow a clear line of sight to every shop and restaurant at all levels.
Conveniently placed bridges and balconies provide convenient access to portions of the mall, including numerous elevators and escalators located for optimal customer convenience. The central atrium is configured as an activity center to provide ample space for concerts, fashion shows, and exhibits. Each space features a vividly colored ceiling to provide visual interest and accents, as well as to provide customers with easy, convenient shopping. It will also have 1,445 parking slots.
The mall features SM mainstays like the SM Store, SM Supermarket, SM Appliance Center, Ace Hardware, and Watsons. Global brands like Uniqlo will add fashion excitement to the mall when it opens; with other international fashion brands like Cotton On, Mango, Aldo, Nautica, and Giordano opening soon. Local favorites like Folded and Hung greeted opening day shoppers, with Bench, Oxygen, Penshoppe, and Hearts and Arrows following soon. Now open are National Bookstore and Ideal Vision.
A hip and vibrant Cyberzone will draw tech enthusiasts to the third level.
SM City BF Parañaque also have four state-of-the-art digital auditoriums, as well as a pair of Director’s Club theaters. All offer a premium cinema experience tailored to the specific needs of moviegoers
Dining in the mall is exciting with specialty restaurants like Krispy Kreme, as well as Vikings, Kimono Ken, Starbucks, Mary Grace Café, Thousand Cranes, and My Little Buttercup opening soon. There will also be a variety of restaurants with outdoor balconies overlooking the street life of Dr. A. Santos Avenue.
SM City BF Parañaque’s design team includes DSGN and Associates, Design Architects; G&W Architects, Architect on Record; AMCON and Company, prohect manager; and New Golden City Builders, general contractor.