Bay City walk: SM Mall of Asia “MoA” – World’s 5th largest shopping mall (12.12.’23: 4K-UHD)

Bay City walk: SM Mall of Asia “MoA” – World’s 5th largest shopping mall (12.12.’23: 4K-UHD)

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■ SM MALL OF ASIA::
SM Mall of Asia or MoA, is a large shopping mall in the Philippines, located at Bay City, Pasay, Philippines, within the SM Central Business Park, a reclaimed area within Manila Bay, and the southern end of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA).

Owned and developed by SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall chain owner and developer in the Philippines, it has a land area of 67 hectares, a gross floor area of approximately 589,891m2 and offers 46,647m2 of floor area space for conventions and social functions. The area attracts a daily average foot traffic of about 200,000 people.

The mall is currently the largest shopping mall in the Philippines and the fifth in the world. When it opened in 2006, it was the largest shopping mall in the Philippines until SM North EDSA was redeveloped in 2008, and was relegated to third place by the expansion of SM Megamall from 2011 to 2015 when SM Seaside City opened to the public before returning to this spot in 2017. It later became the largest shopping mall in the Philippines starting 2021, following the opening of IKEA Pasay City, the first IKEA store in the country and the largest IKEA store in the world, at the mall’s complex.

Following the mall’s opening in 2006, it caused several smaller shopping malls nearby to close, such as the Pearl Plaza and the Uniwide Coastal Mall, both located in Barangay Tambo, Parañaque. However, this is changing with the rise of other malls and similar structures such as the Ayala Malls Manila Bay and W Mall.

MOA GLOBE PUBLICITY STUNT:
On November 13, 2021, the iconic globe was reportedly stolen by a helicopter that was recorded by a delivery rider at 11pm on the previous day. The Pasay City police issued a statement that the globe was not stolen and was just “undergoing maintenance for marketing strategy”. The globe was covered in scaffolding. The mall management released a statement a day later that the globe is “back” and revealed that the supposed theft was staged as part of a publicity stunt to promote the Netflix film, Red Notice. The marketing promotion caused the globe to be a trending subject on Twitter including internet memes with scenes from the animated film Despicable Me (2010), the Netflix survival drama series Squid Game, and the music video of Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus.

FEATURES:
The mall includes branches of all of the standard anchor stores found in most of the SM Supermalls. The first-ever branch of Taste Asia, one of the SM Supermalls’ food court brands, is located right outside the mall’s supermarket, the sprawling SM Hypermarket.

The mall’s open-air Music Hall directly facing Manila Bay has also held numerous events, contests, and concerts since the mall’s opening in 2006.

The mall also provides office space. Dell International Services, a subsidiary of Dell, Inc. once occupied a 13,470m2 area at the second floor of the North Parking Building of the mall. Eventually, in 2015, Teleperformance took over that space until 2019, as the company moved its operations to the MOA Annex Building. Currently, the site has been replaced by the mall anchor Cyberzone for IT-related shops, one of the biggest Cyberzones in the country since the opening of SM North EDSA.

1) MoA Food Hall: Opened on February 12, 2020, the new Food Hall is located in the 3rd Level, across SM Skating Rink at the main mall. Replacing the former SM Food Court at the second floor, it features budget to upscale dining choices.

2) SM Game Park: A replacement of SM Bowling Center, the flagship branch of SM Game Park is located on a 1,947m2 space at the 3rd Level of the South Entertainment Mall. It was opened in November 2023, after delays. Similar to its branch in SM Southmall and SM City Fairview, it features bowling, billiards, other sports facilities, a mini-arcade, KTV, and a sports bar.

3) SM Skating Rink: The mall features the Philippines’ first Olympic-sized ice skating rink which is located on the third level of the mall’s main building. It covers an area of 1,800m2 and has a spectators area which can seat up to 200 people and accommodate up to 300 people. Several ice skating competitions have been held at the mall’s ice skating rink such as the Skate Asia 2007, the first time an international competition at that scale was held in the Philippines. The ice hockey competition of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games was also held in the venue.

4) Others features: SM Cinema, IMAX Theater, The Galeón museum.

■ REFERENCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_Mall_of_Asia
https://www.google.com/maps/place/SM+Mall+of+Asia

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