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Mitsukoshi BGC is a shopping mall in
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in
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,
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. It is the first outlet of the Japanese retail chain
Mitsukoshi is an international Department stores in Japan, department store chain with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Its holding company, Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, is a member of the Mitsui, Mitsui Group. History It was founded in 1673 with the (sho ...
in the Philippines.


History

In 2018, Japanese firm Mitsukoshi, Ltd. announced that it would open the first branch of its retail chain in the
Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
. The retail outlet, named Mitsukoshi BGC, would be developed as a joint project between Japanese companies Nomura Real Estate Development and
Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings () is a holding company with the Mitsukoshi and Isetan department stores as its wholly owned subsidiaries. Operations In August 2007, Isetan Co. Ltd. and Mitsukoshi Ltd. announced that the two companies "have agreed to merge and form a new ho ...
with Philippine firm Federal Land. The project includes the adjacent Seasons Residences. Mitsukoshi BGC partially started operations with its soft opening on November 18, 2022. The grand opening for the mall was held on July 21, 2023.


Architecture and design

Mitsukoshi BGC is the podium structure for the four-tower The Seasons Residences residential complex. The mall structure covers four storeys, which includes a basement level. The Seasons, including the podium hosting the mall, was designed by Japanese firm Torafu Architects in collaboration with artist Asao Tokolo. The façade, which is a product of the collaboration, features a geometric design that is a derivation of the Japanese hemp leaf.


Facilities and tenants

Mitsukoshi BGC deviates from the standard
department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...
model of the Mitsukoshi brand and instead follows a
shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...
format with 120 tenants when it first opened. Marketed as a "lifestyle mall", Mitsukoshi BGC primarily features stores and outlets under Japanese brands. In its basement, it hosts the Itadaki Food Court and Mitsukoshi Fresh, a ''depachika'' or food market.


References

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