Inspiring Completeness

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2012
EXPLORE A WEALTH OF POSSIBILITIES
Inspiring
Completeness
Skyline of the South
A distinct mix unique to the City
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Where the green-minded thrive
A golden opportunity
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CITY LIVING
Where the green-minded thrive
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Filinvest City:
Where all roads lead to
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A Golden Opportunity
A leisurely 15-minute drive away from Makati, Filinvest City is a prime
development of Filinvest, a leader in property development for over fifty
years. Guided by the Gotianun family’s tradition of integrity, quality and
service, it forges ahead with renewed dynamism. Filinvest is committed
to making the Filipino dream to have a home of their own come true.
Filinvest City is a self-sustaining and fully integrated garden city, setting a
new benchmark in urban center development – delivering its envisioned
growth for the neighboring locale and confirming itself as a catalyst of
progress for the entire Metro Manila.
For more information on Commercial Lots
846-0278 local 7023
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Inspiring Fun
Come and create happy memories with us!
Festival Supermall
Carousel Court
OCT
BRIDAL FAIR FOR SOUTHERN
BRIDES
18-21
An exhibit for all soon to be
couples out there. Come and
meet promising wedding
suppliers, fashion designers, make up
artists and other wedding services providers.
OCT
MOSSIMO KIDS FASHION
SHOW
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Mini Trade Hall
OCT
bazaar
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Shop and choose from a wide
array of perfumes, clothes,
shoes, cell phone accessories
and a lot more. Bazaar runs until December
31, 2012.
Filinvest Tent
NOV
EVENT SUPPLIERS’ EXPO
An exhibit of suppliers and
contractors for Events - from
caterers, to lights system
providers, from bazaar
organizers to cars and transport providers.
15-17
Westgate
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A fashion show that will feature
selected kids competing to be
the next face of Mossimo Kids.
OCT
KIDDOS SCARE-RIFIC
HALLOWEEN
OCT
Spooktakular Halloween
Come in your costume and join
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prizes. Show starts at 5pm,
Cul de Sac, Westgate.
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Join Kiddos Club’s Immortal and
Fantasy - themed Halloween
Costume Contest and win
exciting prizes.
OCT
31
STORYBOOOK HALLOWEEN
COSTUME CONTEST
Be your favorite storybook
character! Join the spookiest
Halloween celebration in the
South and get a chance to win 10,000 pesos
in cash.
Enjoy your dinner with a chilling
ambient sound from Thursday to
Saturday these ‘Ber months at
Westgate.
Get your dose of awe and wonder every
weekend as Westgate brings you Magic
Sundays. Show starts at 7pm.
The South’s newest and biggest events venue
Artist’s perspective
Located along Spectrum Midway Avenue, the FILINVEST TENT offers 2,000 sqms. of unobstructed,
fully covered, and airconditioned events venue. Its first class amenities include a grand pre-function
lobby, tasteful VIP lounge, food preparation area, and well appointed restrooms. With reputable
caterers, hotels and service providers as partners to handle your event requirements, The Filinvest
Tent Team guarantees the success of your events.
For bookings, please call Shiela Racoma of the Exhibits Department at 850-3517 to 19 local 264
and 276.
NOV
24-25
Christmas Carnivale
Christmas is more fun when
spent with loved ones. Start
the holiday fun early at the
Christmas Carnivale with your
family.
The Promenade
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Rent a bicycle at ASEAN
Drive at the Promenade and
have fun biking along a wide
tree-canopied road.
Open everyday until 6PM.
CITY LIVING
Where the
green-minded thrive
If you’d rather work in a dark, stuffy box,
then this isn’t where you’d go.
N
o, you’re not going on vacation. You’re not headed out of town.
That is why being a jogger or cyclist is such a pleasure here.
You’re simply coming to Filinvest City, a mere 15-minute drive
Because communing with nature is as easy as taking one leisurely
from the heart of Makati.
step at a time. Walking around is not just quality “me-time”, it’s
A premier central business district that serves as a gateway
between Metro Manila and the booming south, Filinvest City in
Alabang is not just home to exciting commercial and leisure
attractions, stylish condominium developments, and intelligent
corporate offices. It is also a uniquely relaxing haven that combines
the best of nature with the comforts of home, which allows the
modern Filipino to enjoy the ideal live+work+play lifestyle.
An urban epicenter meticulously planned to incorporate nature’s
living tapestry into the bustling fabric of modern business and living,
Filinvest City is home to more than 7,000 trees including 3,000 date
palms, with long trunks crowned by leaves that grow as long as 20
feet.
These date palms line the city’s main thoroughfares, bringing
shade to pedestrians and a verdant backdrop to the city’s skyline,
transforming Filinvest City into a veritable oasis. Add majestic acacia
also time spent marveling at the beauty of Mother Earth and her
trees as well as yellow tinged Poincianas or copper pod trees to
creatures. It’s also a shining example of how progress can co-exist
the mix and what you get is a living, moving and oxygen-producing
harmoniously with nature, without taking it over or destroying it.
painting, courtesy of nature.
This means that workers and residents in Filinvest City don’t need
All these and more are what await everyone at Filinvest City.
Avenues that are not just roads but also paths to relaxation. Shade
to go very far to relax their eyes and minds. All they need to do is
that not just protects from the heat but also provides a home. Fresh
take a short stroll. The myriad of brilliant colors is sure to provide a
breeze that not only cools the body but also rejuvenates the soul.
much-needed respite to eyes fatigued from hours of staring into a
A bustling business city offering the most modern developments…
bright computer screen and the freshness of the breeze can renew a
nestled within a beautiful garden.□
tired mind, allowing one’s creative juices to start flowing once again.
But trees aren’t the only ones to find sanctuary in Filinvest City.
Beautifully colored birds as well as turtles and fishes have also
found a home here, under the canopy the trees provide and along a
living creek that gaily bubbles along with the heartbeat of the city.
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Enjoy life’s journeys at the city that inspires possibilities
FILINVEST CITY
Where all roads lead to
T
he journey through life varies from
Filinvest City is a world-class Central Business
day to day and from person to person.
District (CBD) that boasts of all the technological
There’s the hectic, almost frenetic
advantages a bustling business city might need. In
pace of the rising-to-the-top corporate
fact, Filinvest City has been the address of choice
executive. The hurried but contented pace of the
of several renowned Filipino and international
urban jogger. The rambling, leisurely pace of
corporations as well as the site of dozens of fast-
the pleasure seeker. And finally, the stops-and-
rising ones.
marvel pace of the nature lover. And then there’s
Providing a colorful contrast to the business
the corporate executive who’s also an urban
side of Filinvest City is the presence of several
jogger who’s a part time pleasure seeker and a
developments and establishments offering the
weekend nature lover.
best in retail, leisure, and entertainment. From
But whatever pace one chooses to enjoy life’s
the dramatic expansion of the Festival Mall and
many journeys, they’ll find that all roads lead to
the varied choices at the Westgate Hub to The
one place: Filinvest City, the premier business and
Grilles that has just opened at South Station,
leisure city of the South.
from the Filinvest Tent, which will host the
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Meticulously
maintained parks
and well thoughtout pedestrian
paths, fill people
with renewed
energy to take on
the demands of
work and home.
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biggest happenings this side of the Metro to the
people to a delightful place where they can enjoy
convenient roads like the Skyway or the newly-
Palms Country Club, the 3-hectare ultra-premium
the fresh breeze and commune with nature, filling
widened South Luzon Express Way (SLEX). Either
private membership club and most sought after
them with renewed energy to take on the demands
route promises a ride that is smooth and quick,
destination for relaxation, the lifestyle options here
of work and home.
with several entry and exit ramps along the way.
have never been better, livelier, or more exciting.
And then there’s the quieter side of Filinvest
And the best part is, it takes so little to get the
National roads, like the Circumferential Road
most out of the life that Filinvest City is ready to
5 (C5), which stretches from Quezon City to
City, where urban joggers and nature lovers come
offer. That’s because getting to Filinvest City is as
Paranaque City has also dramatically cut down
together to draw inspiration from the beautiful
smooth as it is easy.
travel time from places like Marikina, Fairview
surroundings. Meticulously maintained parks and
well thought-out jogging and biking paths, lead
For those coming from the North, the express
way of getting to Filinvest City is through
and Monumento.
Residents of the South have an even easier
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(1) Business community in a relaxed
campus setting at Northgate Cyberzone;
(2) Filinvest City is home to beautiful
architecture, just like the Asian Star
Building; (3) The south’s premiere IT park Northgate
Cyberzone, with its highly-accessible location, enjoys
the convience of being in Filinvest City; (4) Civic Plaza
is where hospitals like the Asian Hospital & Medical
Center and other government offices are located; (5)
Whether you are on a tight budget, or you are in the
mode to splurge, at Filinvest City, there’s always a
place for retail therapy anytime; (6) Vivere Suites and
Insular Corporate Centre in Filinvest City beautify
the Alabang skyline.
time getting to Filinvest City, as they have the
of, or within this modern CBD. Which means
luxury of using alternate routes like East and
whatever road you pass by to whatever you
West Service Roads or even Daang Hari, which
want to do is not only easy, it’s also fast and
also allows residents of nearby villages to gain
traffic-free.
easy access to Filinvest City.
Filinvest City also has a privately run traffic
Filinvest City believes that life should be
run at the pace and at the place you set for
management system, which makes sure that
yourself. That’s why every road leads there and
there is free flowing access to Filinvest City
every road is made easier to travel. Because,
any time and from any access point. That’s
at Filinvest City, your journey should be as
why there is virtually no traffic going into, out
enjoyable as your destination. □
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At Filinvest City,
your journey
should be as
enjoyable as
your destination.
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gold. It bears immense value. It is something you can leverage, something you can
mine. And it can make or break your future,
depending on how wisely you use it. To a man with
a polished investment mind and impeccable timing,
that saying may never be proven truer than now,
with just the right opportunity.
That nugget of opportunity comes in the form
of a world-class Central Business District that
has become the home for thriving businesses,
both local and international. A vibrant, energetic
business hub known as Filinvest City.
A GOLDEN
OPPORTUNITY
slate, putting together the pieces of Filinvest City
opportunities are constantly multiplying. Where
became a city builder’s dream. Over a relatively
the possibilities grow ever larger every day.
short period of time, anything that an ultra-
Time does tell
modern, business-oriented city could need was
carefully put in place. From the latest in fiber optic
telecom systems that changed the way business
Time makes all things grow
was done, to underground power and communi-
Almost 20 years ago, life in what was then known
cation lines that ensured these services are
as the Alabang Stock Farm was laidback. But
delivered with consistency and security, Filinvest
amidst all that empty space lay a tremendous
City soon took its place among the most highly
potential to be something more, something truly
touted business districts. Here centrality doesn’t
amazing. Its fortuitous location, serving as a
necessarily mean congestion, and high-rises exist
gateway between the bustling Metro Manila and
side-by-side high trees and greenery.
the booming south, made it the natural center to
which everything gravitated.
With the Alabang Stock Farm as a virtual blank
And, as Filinvest City was slowly being put
together, fate and circumstance conspired to
make it even more desirable to both commercial
and residential investors.
With all these pieces
falling into place, it’s no
The numbers say it all. Those who had the foresight to invest in 1995 bought land at an average
of PhP 35,000 per square meter; now that amount
has more than doubled, with 2012 rates going
anywhere from PhP 62,000 to PhP 150,000 for
every square meter. The last two years alone
are a testament to the robust business climate
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n the world of investment, time truly is
Property value
in Filinvest City
is expected to
increase even
further in the
next few years.
wonder countless multinational companies and some
of the top Philippine corporations have made Filinvest
City their preferred business
address. From top insurance
companies like Insular Life,
some of the biggest auto
companies like Toyota and
Ford, and even booming
companies like Convergys
and other BPO’s at the
Northgate Cyberzone IT Park,
have all eventually found their
way here, where business is
energized in a future-ready,
yet surprisingly refreshing
work environment.
And this brings us to
where Filinvest City is today.
A buzzing, humming business
city. Where efficiency
From a stock farm in 1995, Filinvest Alabang Inc. spearheaded the
planning of a city it is today, an ultra-modern business metropolis.
translates into ease of
working and living. Where
in Filinvest City with offices rental rate seeing a
remarkable 30% increase - from an average of
PhP 400/sqm in 2010 to PhP 520/sqm in 2012.
With the construction of numerous new
properties already underway, and even more
upcoming developments, property value is
expected to increase even further in the next few
years.
Strike now and strike gold
The opportunity to take part in the continuing
development and growth of a burgeoning
business city does not come every day. Nor is it
for the faint of heart or the weak of will. To reap
a golden harvest, one must strike fast and strike
first.
The rush for the golden opportunity that is
Filinvest City has started, and the time to strike is
now. □