Two-Storey SM Mall Urdaneta to open next year – Mayor

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY – The two-storey SM Mall being constructed at a five- hectare land in Barangay Nancayasan here will be opened to the public next year, according to this City’s mayor.

“This is the one being built near the 7-11. The other one that people are talking is located at Barangay Anonas,” Mayor Amadeo Gregorio E. Perez IV said.

ANOTHER SM MALL. The four-storey SM Mall is being constructed at Barangay Nancayasan Urdaneta City, Pangasinan for its opening next year.

SM Prime Holdings, Inc. bought a five-hectare lot in the village after its 10-hectare land in Barangay Anonas to build a bigger and second SM Mall in Eastern Pangasinan hit a legal snag from one of the land sellers there. Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza

Aside from 7-11, the 32,882  square meters SM retail store faces food chain Chowking and another huge retail store CB Mall that would make the nearby national highway there prone to traffic congestion.

“Wala tayong magawa bumili sila ng lupa,” he quipped.

The mayor however said that measures are already in the pipeline to mitigate the traffic snarl that will be created by these malls and commercial establishments in Nancayasan.

When SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH) bought the land, Perez cited he was already the mayor of this burgeoning city.

The two-storey SM Mall here is part of the six malls of SMPH to be introduced this year and next year in the Philippines. They have an aggregate gross floor area (GFA) of 430,669 sqm.

The other retail stores are located in San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan (114,186 sqm), Commonwealth in Quezon City (104,218 sqm), Trece Martires City in Cavite (80,715 sqm), Tuguegarao (50,181 sqm), and Puerto Princesa in Palawan (59,113 sqm).

The one being built at Barangay Herrero in Dagupan City was not included at the website of the SMPI on the six malls presented to the public.

THIRD SM. Perspective of the third SM Centeer in Pangasinan that is
located at Barangay Herrero in  Dagupan City. Just like its counterpart in
Urdaneta City, this one in Dagupan City is being constructed, too.

SMPH bought a 10- hectare of land at Barangay Anonas here to build supposedly a bigger and its second SM Mall in Eastern Pangasinan but hit a legal snag with one of the sellers of the land there.

The problem resulted for the building of a mall at Barangay Nancayasan.

SMPH built its first mall and grocery at Barangay Carmen in Rosales, Pangasinan in November 28, 2008.