SM City Rosales back in business
THE usual throng of shoppers that troop to Carmen, Rosales is back since SM City Rosales reopened its doors last Friday, November 27.
The mall’s reopening after less than two months is a positive sign that business and employment opportunities are back in the area, said Rosales Mayor Ricardo Revita.
“SM’s top management assured me that they will continue to do business in Rosales. They were here all along and with the reopening, they have fulfilled their commitment to us,”̈ said the mayor of this largely agricultural town.
The mall was among those that went almost completely underwater when most parts of the province were flooded in early October.
Voltaire Siapno, owner of Siapno-Tada Optical, Inc., one of SM City Rosales’ homegrown tenants, said he was impressed with SM’s commitment to tenants “like myself that we can start doing business again in about 45 days after the devastating flood.”
“SM’s management even made sure that we could open before the Christmas season so that we could immediately recover some of our losses,” he added.
SM Prime Holdings President Hans T. Sy said SM has “speeded up the reopening so that employees who depend on it for their livelihood can go back to their work immediately.”—LM
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