"The Pride of Cagayan de Oro" |
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| Location | Limketkai Drive, Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines |
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| Developer | Limketkai Sons, Inc.[1] |
| Management | Finance Manager, Henry Jumawid |
| Owner | Limketkai Sons, Inc. President & CEO, Alfonso Lim EVP & COO, Albino Limketkai |
| Architect | Gozar Planners Architect |
| No. of stores and services | 250 shops, 330 dining establishments |
| No. of anchor tenants | 44 |
| Total retail floor area | 250,152 m2 (2,692,610 sq ft) |
| Parking | 1,200 parking slots |
| No. of floors | 2-3 |
| Website | Limketkai Center-Limketkai Mall Official Website |
Limketkai Mall also called Limketkai Sons Mall formerly called Limketkai Center [2] located in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines is a shopping mall[3] occupies a 250,152 m² (2.7 million ft²).[4] This enormous shopping and entertainment complex is the 16th largest mall in the world, 5th largest mall in the Philippines, and the largest mall in Mindanao that features 500 stores and restaurants. This mall has the highest visitor attendance with 97,000 visitors per day on average weekdays and spectacular estimation 110,000 visitors per day on average weekends. Alfonso Lim and Albino Limketkai are the CEO and owner of this giant shopping center.
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The mall is situated at the heart of Metro Cagayan de Oro-the 4th largest Metropolitan Area in the Philippines. The area is formed through boundaries of CM. Recto Avenue and Osmena Street thorough Limketkai Drive. It is settled in front of Mindanao University of Science and Technology that’s about 1 kilometer from Ayala Mall Centrio and 7 kilometers away from the city airport.
The mall has the total area of 320,000 m² (3.4 million ft²), this makes the 16th largest shopping mall in the world. In addition, the shopping center is on proposal as the business district with addition area of about 20.3 hectare. The mall consists of 4 [[concour011-06-16}}</ref>[5] Outside the mall is the Rosario Arcade, a hang out area that houses bars, pizza places, coffee shops, and fine-dining restaurants; featuring Italian, Chinese, Thai and American cuisines all in one place. Also, they cater live music from nightly live bands.
Aside from these numerous tenants, the mall also features an activity complex which has an area of 3,500 square meters. This convention center showcases a concert hall with about hundreds of local and international concerts events held. The atrium has a seat capacity of 3,000-3,500 people in a theater type setting. This atrium is the largest convention hall in Northern Mindanao.
Limketkai houses four cinema theaters, one of which is a 3D theatre.[6] Worlds of Fun complex also outfits play grounds and machine games town with an attendance of 20, 000 visitors playing a day. This amusement center accommodates KTV Rooms and Videoke, Kiddie Rides, Carnival Rides, Arcade Games, Racing Games, Shooting Games, Basketball Games. The mall caters amusement casino, the Bingo Philippines. This gaming corporation was the oldest in Northern Mindanao since 1996.
The hotel is under construction which will be completed by 2013. Hotel Limketkai is a part of business district project together with The Gateway Towers and the Limketkai Office Building.[7] This premium hotel features 200 guest and 70 luxury suite rooms. A 60-foot (18.3 m) outdoor pool is also one of the hotel's features.
In 2008, the proposal of the annex of the mall been submerged into billion that get through only for the hotel.[8] Hotel Limketkai is at the cost of 1.2 billion or a gross amount of 1.8 billion of construction in the Gateway Towers.
Subsequently, in the time when the hotel is topped-out structured. The mall-east concourse was currently under-construction by its connecting junction which will make additional floor-retail area. The connection would concluding as duty free fiesta shopping complex designed elevated Aseana retail shopping with call center and Cinemax complexes.[9] Recently, Limketkai Sons used signed contract for the generation of the business district on the 320,000 square metres (3,400,000 sq ft) including the Limketkai Mall where the series of buildings would also attach to the shopping mall. Accordingly, Gozar Planners Architects have on hold three high-rise buildings as part of district.
By 2013, the hotel would be open while the proposed infrastructure constructed. This business district will contains headquarter of the Limketkai Sons company.
Comprising shopping mall, office, hotel, residential and convention center will be settled soon in the 320,000 square meters, making it largest business district in Mindanao by 2014, during which Paseo del Rio de Cagayan where under-construction at that time.
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