SM City Bacoor

SM City Bacoor is a shopping mall in Brgy. Habay in Bacoor, Cavite in the Philippines, developed and owned by SM Prime Holdings. It is the first SM Supermall in the Luzon region outside of Metro Manila, and the first in province of Cavite. The mall is located at the major intersection of Aguinaldo Highway, the road that leads to the highland region of the province, and Tirona Highway, which leads to the coastal area of the province. The four-level building has a total floor area of 120,202 m² (1,293,840 sq ft) on a land area of 84,000 m² (21 acres). A few years back, one of the restaurants in the mall caught on fire which ablazed and spread in the building.

History

SM City Bacoor and SM City Fairview are two SM Supermalls opened in 1997. The construction of the mall started in 1996 as a three-level shopping complex, but it ultimately became a larger four-level complex, opened on July 25, 1997.

Mall features

The mall's interior and exterior designs are similar to SM City Fairview and SM City Iloilo, particularly the wave design of their roofs. It was the biggest mall in Cavite for 14 years, till it was surpassed by its sister mall, SM City Dasmariñas in 2011 with its gross floor area (GFA) larger by 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft). However, it still remains as one of the largest landmarks in the province and the biggest building erected in the city of Bacoor.

Bacoor

Bacoor, officially the City of Bacoor (Filipino: Lungsod ng Bacoor), is a first-class urban component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is a lone congressional district of Cavite and is the province's gateway to Metro Manila.

Etymology

Some accounts indicate that the city of Bacoor, also named Bakood or Bakoor, was founded as pueblo or town in 1671. When Spanish troops first arrived in Bacoor, they met some local inhabitants in the process of building a bamboo fence (bakod in Filipino) around a house. The Spaniards asked the men what the name of the village was but because of the difficulties in understanding each other, the local inhabitants thought that the Spaniards were asking what they were building. The men answered "bakood". The Spaniards pronounced it as "bacoor" which soon became the town's name.

History

Spanish period

Bacoor was one of the flashpoints of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872. Bacoor's parish priest at that time, Fr. Mariano Gómez, was one of the GOMBURZA trio implicated in the mutiny for advocating secularization of priesthood in the Philippines. He and the rest of GOMBURZA were executed at Bagumbayan in 1872. The death of the GOMBURZA served as the inspiration for Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo, which in turn influenced the ignition of the Philippine Revolution.