DoubleDragon
Corporation has opened CityMall-Surigao in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte in the Mindanao region -- its 45th operational mall nationwide, officially making it the No.4 largest mall developer and landlord in terms of number of operational malls and specifically in the community mall segment, is currently the No.1 largest community mall developer and landlord in terms of number of operating community
malls in the Philippines.
The current CityMall’s GFA forms part of the
1.29 million square meters of fully built and completed GFA in DoubleDragon's
diversified portfolio exceeding its 1 million square meters total GFA target by
2020 set and announced during its IPO listing in the PSE last April 2014, at
which point it had practically Zero leasable space.
CityMall-Surigao has a total GFA of 8,608
square meters that sits in a 1.05-hectare plot of prime commercial land. The
then-vacant land right beside the Surigao City Integrated Land Transport
Terminal was purchased for land banking way back 2015 and forms part of the
string of over 100 prime land spread out across Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao
that DoubleDragon acquired mostly from 2014 to 2016, when prime land prices was
still mostly less than one-fourth of the land prices today.
CityMall-Surigao's locator/tenant mix includes a full-size MerryMart Grocery, Jollibee, Chowking, Mang Inasal, Greenwich, Highlands Coffee, MerryMart Pharmacy powered by Carlos Superdrug, ALLWin Department Store, Fun Nation,
PrimeHub, Vazcon Salon, Potato Corner, JM Shawarma, Party Toppers by Surigao
Toopers, Keisha’s Jewelry, Master Siomai, Tori’s Buco, Redd’s Mango, RRJ,
Petrol, Mr. Lee, Bobson, FreeLife, RELX and Elixir Store, Car-San Auto, Anchiko Cakes & Pastry Shop, DTI Go Negosyo, Chef Mike Japanese Cuisine booth, JYG Food Enterprises, Yesha’s Kwek
Streetfood Cart, DO Marketing, Lemon District, Samantha’s Steamboat and Mister
Donut.
After the opening of CityMall-Surigao, three more CityMalls are slated to be completed in the fourth quarter this year
2023 namely CityMall-Bay Laguna, CityMall-Palo Leyte, and CityMall-Antique. For
next year 2024, a total of 4 more CityMalls are set to open namely CityMall-Gen
Trias Cavite, CityMall-Guiwan Zamboanga, CityMall-Ormoc and CityMall-Ozamiz
that would make DoubleDragon increase its operational mall portfolio to 52 by
the end of 2024.
DoubleDragon's current 45-mall network which
are now all operational to date was constructed and opened from the first
CityMall in 2015 to the 45th operating mall in a span of only 8 years as of
July 28, 2023. The 45 mall openings in 8 years include the over two years of
Covid19 pandemic.
The CityMalls that were opened before the Covid19 pandemic are now in batches, undergoing refresh makeover since
early this year and to be completed by the end of this year in line with the
goal of making the CityMalls in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao reach maturity
level and attain the optimal above-industry rental yields by 2025.
CityMall’s occupancy level post-Covid19
pandemic has steadily increased and is expected to reach 100% by end of 2024,
driven by the continued transition from traditional retail to modern retail in
the countryside.
“Within the first three years of DoubleDragon’s IPO in the Philippine Stock Exchange last April 2014, we purposely and rapidly acquired
majority of the Company’s landbank for CityMall when land prices in city
centers of prime provincial cities were still low. Today, we have seen exponential
value appreciation across the string of prime commercial properties which our DD team are thankful to have acquired a string of hundreds of prime
assets across the country early on,” said DoubleDragon chairman Edgar “Injap”
Sia II.
"We see building structures for the
recurring revenue business like fruit-bearing trees, where the buildings are
like the tree, and the recurring income that eventually follows are like the
fruits that keep coming for many decades. And while they produce the fruits
year on year, the property like the bark of the tree also becomes more and more
valuable," added Mr. Sia.