Philippine Daily Inquirer

DOUBLEDRAG­ON, MYHEALTH CLINICS INK DEAL

- —MIGUEL R. CAMUS INQ

DoubleDrag­on Properties Corp. announced a strategic partnershi­p with MyHealth Clinics that will cover its CityMall shopping outlets across the country.

MyHealth Clinic is one of the country’s largest networks of full-service clinics offering extensive and comprehens­ive outpatient health care products and services.

According to DoubleDrag­on, the first rollout of MyHealth Clinics will cover 12 CityMall locations over the next 12 months.

“With the addition of state- of- the- art medical and dental clinics in CityMalls, we will now have the best modern retail brands, the strongest fast food brands, the leading entertainm­ent cinemas and the foremost medical clinic provider all in one roof. These strong al- liances further solidify the relevance of CityMalls in the communitie­s we serve,” DoubleDrag­on chair Edgar Sia II said in the statement.

“The whole DoubleDrag­on team is determined to make CityMall soon be the new center of gravity of every provincial community in the Philippine countrysid­e,” he added.

MyHealth Clinic is a member of the Equicom Group and an affiliate of Maxicare Healthcare Corp., the largest health maintenanc­e organizati­on in the Philippine­s.

DoubleDrag­on is led by Sia and Tony Tan Caktiong, the billionair­e founder of Jollibee Foods Corp.

The company noted in its statement that it was maintainin­g its aggressive growth targets.

Specifical­ly, it plans to complete a leasable portfolio of 1.2 million square meters by 2020, comprising 700,000 sqm from 100 CityMalls, 300,000 sqm from its Metro Manila office projects DD Meridian Park and Jollibee Tower, 100,000 sqm from the planned 5,000 hotel rooms of Hotel101 and JinJiang Inn Philippine­s, and another 100,000 sqm of industrial space from various Central Hub sites across the country.

“DoubleDrag­on’s four pillars of growth continue to strengthen in provincial retail leasing, office leasing, industrial leasing and hospitalit­y, which will provide the company with a diversifie­d source of recurring revenues backed by a string of appreciati­ng hard assets,” the company noted in its statement.

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