Festival Mall, the flagship mall of Filinvest Lifemalls – is one of the country’s largest shopping malls and the largest mall in southern Manila. Located in Filinvest City in Muntinlupa, Festival Mall has more than 1,500 shops and restaurants within approximately 340,000 square meters of floor area. It is highly accessible – three roads directly link it to the South Luzon Expressway, and has three city road entry points.
In meeting the growing needs of the progressive city of Muntinlupa, Festival Mall continues to move with the times – by providing the community with the most complete, convenient, and relevant shopping, dining, entertainment, and leisure offerings in the south.
“Our strategic location at Filinvest City – the business and leisure gateway in the south, and of the neighboring provinces of Laguna, Cavite, and Batangas makes Festival Mall the top choice of foreign and local retailers to build their first and flagship stores in the south. Our solid partnerships with our mall tenants enable us to complete our offerings and offer a variety of choices for the Alabang community and its neighboring areas,” said Josephine Gotianun–Yap, President and CEO of Filinvest Land Inc.
Among Festival Mall’s family of locators are recognized brand leaders in their categories. Serving the essential shopping needs of the community are its anchor stores that are the biggest in the south: Landmark Supermarket and Department Store, Robinsons Department Store, Shopwise, Savemore Supermarket, Handyman, and Ace Hardware. Power Mac Center, a technology store that specializes in Apple products and accessories, has the largest store and service center in the area.
When giant supermarket and department store chain Landmark – with a strong foothold in the Makati CBD and North Manila – decided to expand its operations in the south, it chose its home to be in Festival Mall. Landmark occupies five levels of retail space at the mall’s expansion wing.
“With our recent mall renovation and expansion, Festival Mall has become the fifth largest mall in the country. We can accommodate the space requirements of our mall tenant partners, and provide them with high traffic for their businesses to grow,” said Joy Polloso, Senior Vice-President, Filinvest Commercial Centers and Retail Management.
Festival Mall’s impressive list of fashion retailers are European clothing leader H&M, foreign brands: the first-in-the-south Cole Haan and Pandora; Promod, Parfois, Cotton On, Yves Rocher, The Face Shop, Keds, and Geox, among others. Top French sports brand Go Sport opened its first Southeast Asian store here.
The established and successful local brands are: Bench, Penshoppe, Kashieca, Unica Hija, Regatta, Kamiseta, and Bayo.
A testament to Festival Mall’s reputation as the preferred home for global brands to test their first entry in the Philippine market is Decathlon, the world’s largest sporting goods retailer based in Lilles, France. After its first year of operations, Decathlon saw the opportunity of Festival Mall’s high traffic and expanded its store space by almost a quarter of its original size.
Known as a food destination, Festival Mall offers a variety of local and global dining brands and brings in the first concepts to the south: Nono’s, Hakata, Blugre, Tim Horton’s, Tori Ichi, Black Scoop, The Cook, Kkokko, Boteyju, Jose, and Juan’s Bistro, as well as unique concepts such as Antonio Uno, Petit Bistro, Jaeu, Skewered, and Toucan Brazilian BBQ Buffet, among others. Festival Mall houses almost all of the super brands in the fast food industry, offering quick and affordable meals to serve a wider market. Popular American fastfood restaurant Popeyes will soon join this list.
One of Festival Mall’s main attraction is its recreational offerings – it is the only mall in the south with the biggest indoor recreation centers. It has a Grand Carousel at the main mall; Pixie Forest for kids, and X-site roller coaster rides for the teen market. The expansion wing has indoor interactive playgrounds for children: Kidzoona, Kicca, I-Detective sleuthing games, and VR Land, a virtual reality arcade featuring the latest digital gaming entertainment. Located on the same floor are Festival’s Gold Class cinemas equipped with the latest Dolby Atmos technology. For fitness, it has the famous G-Force Dance Studio and Perigon Cycling Studio.
“Our brand promise is to give our customers the best recreational value and to help promote their general well-being through our complete and relevant mall offerings,“ added Polloso.
In line with the Filinvest Group’s mission of creating environments that inspire and promote a happy life, Festival Mall is committed to provide the best shopping and recreational experience, addressing the various needs and preferences of the communities that it serves, and the market’s ever changing lifestyles.