THE SM Mall of Asia recently received the Philippine Retailer’s Association’s Shopping Center of the Year Award during the  2008 Outstanding Filipino Retailers and Shopping Centers of the Year Night held recently in Ortigas.

In a statement, SM said this is the third time that an SM Supermall has been cited by the PRA since it launched the award in 2002. 

SM City Baguio was cited in 2005 and SM Mall of Asia also last year.

Envisioned as the premier destination mall in the Pacific Region, the SM Mall of Asia has raised the standards of shopping, leisure, and entertainment in the country. Located in the Bay City development on Roxas Boulevard in Metro Manila, it has a gross floor area of 400,000 square meters.

The complex consists of four buildings linked by elevated walkways with a total of 600 shops and 150 restaurants.

Since it opened its doors to a record one million customers during opening day in May 2006, the mall which SM Founder and chairman Henry Sy, Sr. has called “the greatest project of my life,” created a lot of excitement in the local shopping center scene.