3 Reasons why Filinvest City is worth Whe Trip

Whether you’re aiming for a quick hotel staycation, looking for thrilling activities to try, or simply wanting a change of environment to enjoy fresh air and abundant spaces, Filinvest City, Alabang offers a full suite of activities – from leisure to adventure.

1. Home to exciting events and fun recreational activities. Filinvest City’s civic spaces continue to elevate the Metro South lifestyle. The Central Park, for example, is envisioned to be the next venue for major events such as festivals, concerts, and other exciting activities. Its Great Lawn is already open for public use, serving as the place of gathering at the heart of Filinvest City. Here, residents and visitors can enjoy the open space to walk their dogs, jog, exercise, and so many more. Park-goers can also utilize other features for fun and wellness such as a Play Area and Outdoor Gym Equipment. They can also find Bike Rental Stations and Moovr PH’s E-scooter Rental that can be used to ride through the car-free road at Spectrum Midway. To complete the experience, Central Park holds food bazaars every weekend called Eats by the Park, which offers a variety of food and refreshments perfect for al fresco dining and picnic while enjoying the fresh breeze of nature. 

2. Offers a wide variety of activities to suit different lifestyles. Aside from vibrant parks, Filinvest City is also the perfect relaxation and retail destination. At Festival Mall, family and friends can enjoy the iconic mini-amusement parks that have arcade games and extreme rides, which were recently re-opened: The Festival Junction Express, Festival Grand Carousel, Pixie Forest, and X-Site. There’s also the Wijump Trampoline Park and PedWay Go Kart Rental for those who are looking for unique and active entertainment for the family. 

For anyone looking for a leisure sport, Southpoint Driving Range is available for a steady golf session with no membership needed. 

Meanwhile, for a more relaxed approach to dining, leisure, health, and wellness, visitors can opt to explore Westgate Center, which houses a suite of dining options, fitness centers, and retail stores. For movie-goers, they can definitely look forward to showing their much-awaited movie releases with big screens finally coming back at the Commercenter, which offers an exceptional cinema experience.

Planning a staycation? You can finally make it happen with the many luxury and deluxe hotels which are all fully operational and ready to take in guests for a laidback vacation in the middle of the green city: Crimson Hotel, Bellevue Hotel, Vivere Hotel, Acacia Hotel, and Somerset Alabang.

Lastly, those looking for an exclusive lifestyle experience, the members-only Palms Country Club provides a new level of leisure with its superior club management, first-class amenities, and superb dining, in a private enclave within the city. 

 

3. Abundance of fresh air and expansive green, open spaces. Being outdoors and experiencing nature offers many health and wellness benefits. Not only does it boost one’s mood, it also helps improve one’s immune system. As a Garden City, being in Filinvest City means there’s no shortage of fresh air and verdant landscapes. A sizable portion of land is dedicated to green, open spaces for the community to enjoy – there are pedestrian-friendly roads, wide sidewalks, dedicated Bike Lanes and Shared Roads across the city. Its major public parks, the Spectrum Linear Park, Central Park, Filinvest Axis Park, Festival Mall River Park, and Festival Mall Water Garden, are all interconnected to make walking pleasant while enjoying the great outdoors. 

From leisure and wellness to exciting recreational activities, Filinvest City offers everything one needs to achieve an invigorating lifestyle.  To know more about this thriving community, visit https://filinvestcity.com/. For more updates, follow them on Facebook @FilinvestCityOFFICIAL and Instagram @filinvest_city. 

The Future of Work - Sustainable Office Building

Green, the color of nature, has become the color people look for and want - in the products they buy, their homes and even the place where they work. Green means environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Parkway Corporate Center in Filinvest City, Alabang wears “being green” as a badge of honor, presenting itself as a sustainable office space in a sustainable garden central business district. Filinvest City, is a complete and thriving CBD, has the distinction of being the first central business district in the Philippines to receive the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED v4 Gold for Neighborhood Development (LEEDv4 ND) from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and one of the largest neighborhood developments in Southeast Asia to pass the world’s most rigorous green building rating system.

Parkway Corporate Center boasts of premium amenities to make working in it as good for the health as it is good for business because the development was planned and designed for this purpose. 

As Metro Manila and the rest of the country prepare themselves to resume their routines that were rudely interrupted and disrupted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, they also brace themselves for the resumption of the old headaches - monstrous traffic jams, limited seats in public utility vehicles, and a very polluted atmosphere. Those who are fortunate would have the good luck to work at Parkway Corporate Center would have the luxury of being cocooned in a healthy working environment where they can take advantage of the development’s distinctive green building features such as its excellent indoor air quality, and breathable open spaces. According to research findings conducted by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), green buildings make employees healthier and happier. With more employees returning to their office set up in the midst of the emerging pre-pandemic hustle and bustle of Metro Manila, this is the ideal time to find sustainable office spaces in a prime location at a competitive price range. Parkway Corporate Center offers the complete package. It is located in a prime location and has the added advantage of being a green building, so employees can be productive and efficient but healthy as well.
 
Parkway Corporate Center is green not just because it is located in Filinvest City, but because it also has its own LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification from USGBC to prove it. The LEED certification is an honorable seal that not only validates Parkway Corporate Center as a sustainable office building but also establishes its tenant’s confidence in providing their employees a safe and healthy environment to work.

In addition, it offers premium amenities and access to major transportation hubs and roads that connect Parkway Corporate Center to cities north and south of Filinvest Cityit. It has the prime business spot in Filinvest and provides greater mobility and convenience. It is close to Festival Mall, five-star Crimson Hotel, Westgate, Asian Hospital and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. 

H1 Architecture and Design, one of the country's top architectural firms, designed its future-proof, premium-grade office tower that is now ready for occupancy. Modern features and amenities include high-speed elevators, an elegant lobby, modern business centers, a podium deck garden, and spacious parking spaces. All unsold units of Parkway Corporate Center are available for leasing, with price starting at 900 pesos per square meter. Units range in size from 36 to 252 sqm and may be combined. 
 
To know more, visit parkwaycorporate.com

SMDC’s Shore Residences: A Confluence Between the Paradise of your Dreams and the most Lucrative Property in your Portfolio

Picture a coastal-inspired home that’s more akin to a five-star vacation resort than your regular concrete structure — a home where you are welcomed everyday with a grand lobby, lush greeneries, and multiple turquoise-watered swimming pools; a home where your sights are filled with the blues of a majestic bay, your ears with the sounds of calm waves, and your heart with anticipation for a vibrant food, commerce, and entertainment hub. 

Whatever scene you imagined is just a small taste of what life is like at the Shore Residences Complex, a master-planned mega district by SM Development Corporation (SMDC) composed of three residential developments.

Shore Residences combines resort-style living with all the conveniences and luxuries an address within the Mall of Asia (MOA) complex could offer. Dive a little deeper and find out why a lifestyle upgrade or an investment in this prime location is an opportunity you just cannot miss.

Welcome to paradise

A life in Shore Residences is a high life, primarily because it’s a life of endless summers. The grand lobby, for instance, embodies a tropical design that almost literally transports you to the seaside.

The vast entrance hall is defined by seashell white marble flooring, whimsical curves and textures, and accents of colors of the ocean. With cabana-like sofas, premium woven furniture, and coastal embellishments, one may easily mistake Shore Residences’ lobby as the lobby of a five-star resort.

Wrapping up your everyday vacations, of course, are the hotel-like services in the complex. Like any other SMDC development, Shore Residences boasts of hotel-like services, geared towards curating an affluent lifestyle for residents. The cordial welcome of the doorman, the tireless hospitality of the front desk staff, and the well-appointed interiors at Shore Residences all come together to ensure you come home to a paradise you can call your own.

Where luxury lives

Luxury lives in every corner at Shore Residences with a plethora of in-water and out-of-water activities offered in the complex.

From charming, wharf-inspired decks, to riverfront lounge pools, to palm tree courtyards and beach entry pools that come with a feature island— Shore Residences is the pinnacle of “resort-inspired” SMDC developments. Residents of all ages can enjoy the several aquatic activities in the complex that not only serve as bonding opportunities for the family, but are also scientifically-proven as beneficial to one’s mental health.

If you don’t fancy water-based drills, there are plenty of scenic areas for you to get your endorphins fix around the mega district. Beautifully-landscaped gardens abound the complex that give you vast, open spaces to walk, run, or meditate. Shore Residences also has fully-equipped indoor gyms, jogging trails, and a basketball court where you could tick off your fitness goals one by one.

When it comes to social activities, on the other hand, you and your loved ones could gather and celebrate the most momentous occasions in the opulent function rooms in the development, with panoramic views of the resort-inspired amenities as your backdrop.

 

An idyllic time for maximum returns

As the country recovers from the global health crisis, several real estate experts see encouraging forecasts in the residential property sector. This shared sentiment is a clear sign that there might not be a better time to enter the market than today.

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Philippines, for one, sees increasing demand from professionals looking for homes closer to places of work. This bodes well for investors of Shore Residences, should they capitalize on the steady rental market that many business hubs in the MOA Complex help provide. 

Santos Knight Frank, on the other hand, see new infrastructure developments as the key to success when it comes to auspicious returns in real estate investment. 

A testament to this is a research that discusses how from the period of 2008 to 2019, developments surrounding the MOA Complex have increased in value four times in just ten years’ time. Imagine what a decade holds for you if you invest in Shore Residences now?

Whether you’re trying to find a home where your kids can grow with life’s best comforts, or you’re in need of a vacation space that’s not too far from the hustle and bustle of the city, or you’re looking for a sound investment opportunity that will yield returns for years to come, there’s a little bit of something for everyone in Shore Residences. 

To learn more about SMDC’s Shore Residences, follow SMDC on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.

About SM Development Corporation (SMDC)

SMDC is the largest and fastest growing real estate developer in the Philippines. Championing perfectly integrated commercial and residential environments, SMDC provides every Filipino and its investors access to a sustainable and attainable cosmopolitan lifestyle. Through masterfully planned and award-winning, complete developments, SMDC has been providing the dream homes of Filipinos in Metro Manila and other key cities in the Philippines