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Dumaguete needs a new mall

Discussion in 'Dumaguete City' started by shadow, Oct 11, 2013.

  1. shadow

    shadow DI Forum Luminary

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    This was published in the Negros Chronicle. Some of it is dreaming, some is with rosy glasses installed, and other parts are right on the money;

    It’s now inevitable, Dumaguete, the ever booming and growing community needs
    another big mall, because malling has now become part of the city life in Dumaguete.

    The monstrous traffic, the congestion in parking spaces, the irrational drivers, still the remaining few narrow streets, are clear ingredients that we NEED TO DISPERSE becaue the central downtown area has become very, very crowded and congested.

    We used to have visionaries at city hall. Now they are all gone. We have yet to hear a city councilor, or mayor, or vice mayor to see a vision of Dumaguete ten years from now. It will just be too unimaginable if we do not open new frontiers out there in the very vacant and vast area of the metro.

    It will be less viable for new stores like Robinsons to be opening in downtown areas where there is not enough parking space.
    Our parking boys for motorbikes have become experts in orderliness, thanks to them. I just love to see the orderly parking of motcycles downtown. But they’re just too many and too crowded.

    Thanks too to the visionary in the late Tuting Perdices who cemented virtually all city roads. That is his lasting legacy. For the health conscious buffs, thanks to the late Dodo Macias who built the Perdices Oval complex. It is now a daily hub of running, hiking, swimming, ball gaming enthusiasts. No small city like ours has something like what we have. Plus a bonus convention center and hotel all in one.

    If ever any PDAF were involved , the money certainly was well-spent. No conceivable corruption in sight on these items at least.

    Thanks, too, to Mike Romero who simply lighted all the streets with bright sodium lights. Dumaguete looks more like a city now. Imgine a city without those sodium lights! Surely, you can see where some of his CDF went!

    Robinsons place is a success. This is what we mean by opening new frontiers. Just imagine without Robinsons in the south, where would those cars be parking! And those people!
    So we need another Robinsons in the North. Thanks to Cangs Inc who wisely opened a big department store that serves a lot right in the center of the city, and away enough from the traffic nightmare area.

    It will be unwise of SM not to open a mall here. There is still room for one more with the size of Rob. Sundays, parking is impossible at Rob. Weekend nights too at Hayahay. Can’t our investors see that? A little improved innovation will surely disperse the crowd. The streets will be less congested.

    If you have passed by Gaisano in Carcar, and now in Dumanjug, Cebu in one of your land trips to Cebu, these sizes are just good enough for Dumaguete. Just provide a big parking space like what Carcar and Dumanjug did, and people will just flock there.


    I can't seem to post the second half of the article, the article is here;

    www.negroschronicle.com
     
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    That was in the humor section?

    I believe I'll let Mr. Henry Sy decide if it would be unwise to open a mall here. He seems to know what he's doing.
     
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    Toledo is only a little bigger in size than Dumaguete, they went from nothing five years ago to the 2 Gaisanos they have now, the two stores being maybe 2.5km apart.

    considering that Dumaguete is a tad more important than Toledo in that it is the capital of an entire region, Negros Oriental, has a reasonably prestigious university, and is I think probably more of an employer that attracts more people into town as commuters, than Toledo does. So I don't think it having another mall is such a stupid idea at all.
     
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    Hey dont worry. their building a SM mall in the near future. Ive been hearing that for 6 years now
     
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    It's strange that the Philippines is building malls while malls are being shut down in the U.S.
     
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    Broadside DI Forum Patron

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    It's par for the course, given that the time difference between the two countries is 12 hours and 40 years.
     
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    Ime sure if SM Etc. thought there was a market they would have built a mall in Duma,
    But obviously they don't.
     
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    The malls in the states have competition from "power centers". The power centers are populated by big box stores. Their overhead is much lower in power centers. Many of the big box stores are relatively new in the retail business, Home Depot, WalMart, Office Depot, etc. Their relatively new marketing strategies have almost put the old line retailers out of business, KMart, Sears, Penny's, Montgomery Ward, TG&Y, etc.
    It is unlikely this will follow suit in PI as transportation and land costs will preclude the big box take down of the malls.
     
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    There is a market for a SM in Dumaguete, and plenty of it. The problem is SM has had problems getting land that would accomadate them close enough to major hubs and getting City approval. Robinsons has been having a very strong hand it keeping SM out and trying to make sure they can't get a reasonable location. An SM City would cripple the current Robinsons which is falling down in parts, massively overpriced costs to rent a space, and very few options for shopping and diversity. Robinsons would be forced into having to do massive upgrades to compete and lower rental prices.

    But where would SM build in Dumaguete that keeps it close to the majority of the city? Your looking at since a motorcycle city aiming not more then 10 minutes from downtown.
     
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    Valencia is not the only place shoppers come to Duma from....they also come from the north - by Ceres Liner bus loads! LOL!! Duma could support another mall, if it was bigger and more reasonably priced than Robinson's is - just my opinion. Toyota is building a hige new dealership north of the airport in Sibuland....SM or the others should look to the north - not south!! just my HO.
    Don
     
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