PERSPECTIVE OF Three E-com Center

LEADING property developer SM Prime Holdings Inc. is set to break ground this month for its newest landmark, Three E-comCenter, the latest project of the company’s Commercial Properties Group (CPG).

This 15-story commercial building will rise within the prime business location of SM’s flagship master-planned development, the 67-hectare Mall of Asia (MOA) Complex in Pasay City. Similar to its predecessors, ThreeE-comCenter boasts of a dynamic architectural design by Miami-based architectural firm Arquitectonica featuring semi-circular twin towers with a total GFA of 111,727 sq m.

ThreeE-com is designed to efficiently cater to the daily needs of its tenants offering retail units on the ground and a portion (If the fifth floor called ThreeE-com Prism Plaza. The three-level parking podium is located at the second to fourth floors and offices are from the fifth to the 15th floors.

ThreeE-comCenter will ‘cater to the growing demand for office space from the outsourcing industry as well as shipping, logistics and other businesses. The development of this project will continue to establish the E-comCenters as a premier address in Metro Manila given its ideal location and well-planned environment.

“The BPO sector has been one of our major economic growth drivers and it has not exhibited signs of slowing down. This gives us the confidence and motivation to continue pursuing projects like this,” said Dave Rafael, senior vice president, SM Prime Holdings Inc. Commercial Properties Group.

The groundbreaking event follows the near completion of FiveE-comCenter, which will formally open in April 2015. 

FiveE-com is one among six E-com buildings to rise at the Mall of Asia Complex offering office spaces for BPOs and regular office tenants. FiveE-Com is further linked via bridgeways to predecessors One and TwoE-comCenter and to the Mall of Asia North Parking Building.

It is a 15-story building composed of a basement and a two-level podium parking, with offices from the fourth to fifteenth floors. The fourth floor Prism Plaza features a landscaped deck and pond which will have both retail and office spaces. The GFA is estimated at 126,907 sq m, with a floor area of approximately 7,500 sq m. The external building wrap-around facade is composed of a curtain wall, punched windows and aluminium composite materials.