Make SM Subic Special!

Comment from a reader on "Where Is Our SM Mall?" :

Mega Malls Ruin Communities

Where's Subic's SM Mall? Hopefully, it will never come. What makes Subic special? One thing is that we in Subic have something Manila and "SM cities": do not have: we have restaurants, bars, parks, etc. We have a community life outside of the mall. Malls in the Philippines ruin communities. (In Manila, even museums and art galleries are inside malls!) Malls turn Philippine cities into generic gathering places of junk food restaurants, arcades, China cheap crap stores, and dumping grounds for kids to get fat and lazy, and for vehicle traffic to accumulate. Instead of another Megamall, why not build the Philippines's biggest park? Why not a world class football pitch? Why not a great baseball or cricket field? It is nice to be able to drive to SM Clark 30 minutes away and visit a mall but it is even nicer to drive back to Subic and be in a real community again. Keep Subic Mega Mall Free!

[The Subic Bulletin] Are you sure you’re not the owner of one of our "protected" big joke Duty Free shops? The overwhelming opinion of readers is that the shops in Subic are PATHETIC. Overpriced, old stock, badly managed etc. We need competition here to get these businesses cleaned up.

Almost every kind of Junk Food restaurant can be found already in Subic or Olongapo, the only difference would be that the children are at great risk of being run over by a Jeepney when visiting the Magsaysay road fast foods.

So lets look at the other delights you want for Subic....The Philippines Biggest Park, is this so we can decentralize the glue sniffing problem out of Manila? We love open space in Subic and we are fortunate enough to have it in fact right now SBMA seems to be more interested in turning parks into concrete towers, so who do you propose we get to invest in this MEGA PARK?

Baseball, another dead end idea, the unused baseball field has just been demolished and has been turned into a row of shops right near the main gate, this complex was suppose to be a "sports hotel" but seems to have turned into a cheap market.

We can only seem to agree on one point. When SBMA gives permission to SM to build a mall they should force them to have a certain area of floor space for unique museums and places of education interest. I know the owners of Zoobic safari and Ocean Adventure would be more than happy to build displays that provide a tourist attraction inside the Mall, inside Subic, good idea.