VISTA CITY:
Vista Land’s fl agship communicity
I magine a community where everything is within reach and all systems go based on its natural flow, thus making it truly environment-friendly. This is the concept of a
communicity, a shared neighborhood complete with residential, retail, work, education, health care, recreational and environmental facilities.
Master-planned developments are an emerging trend in real estate nowadays, as homebuyers shift from looking for the traditional “dream home” to a more forward-thinking “dream neighborhood”, fueled by their need for a more efficient, convenient and sustainable lifestyle. This is where Vista Land’s concept of communicities comes in as a next step in the evolution of market trends.
For Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc., one of the country’s largest and most successfulreal estate companies, considering families’ changing needs and preferences for communities always comes first. Last year, the company launched its flagship communicity — the 1,500-hectare Vista City. Spanning across Muntinlupa, Las Piñas, Cavite, and Laguna, Vista City will serve as the prime example of how integration and synergy can power sustainable cities of the future.
Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc. chairman Manny Villar once described Vista City as a pioneering project created for the urban families of the 21st century. Being the largest development of its kind in Metro Manila, it also creates greater value for all the company’s stakeholders by significantly broadening business opportunities in a sustainable manner within the rapidly developing Metro South.
“The aim for Vista City is to attract residents in the upper, mid-range, and starter home categories, and a range of commercial locators and businesses, including the business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and IT-heavy sectors, health care entities, leisure facilities, and innovative educational institutions such as corporate universities and schools for new technologies,” Villar said.
Being a true communicity, Vista City will prove to be more than just a typical stand-alone community, as it will be a collection of interconnected communities, that allows each one to thrive in a more effective and optimal manner. Within Vista City are a number of distinct community areas, each playing a role in making it the country’s first true communicity. Wider living spaces catering to a broad range of markets can be found within Brittany’s Portofino, Crown Asia’s Ponticelli and Camella Cerritos.
Serving these communities’ lifestyle and leisure needs is a landmark of craftsmanship in the form of Evia Lifestyle Center, with its wide variety of retail, dining and entertainment shops and services. Soon, residents no longer have to travel far to work as Vista Hub, an innovative business district with IT parks and BPO buildings, breathes new energy into the locale’s economy. Meanwhile, events abound in the most desired venue south of the metro, Palazzo Verde (formerly Fernbrook Gardens).
The communicity is also designed to feature hotels and serviced residences, hospitals and medical centers, and a bustling center for knowledge at the University Town. In Vista City, business opportunities, culture, livability and innovation all move harmoniously as one.
In the context of the recent acquisition of retail center developer Starmalls, Inc. by Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc., the push for greater diversity in the developments of Vista City comes even closer to reality.
“Given the range of services that the Vista Group now has to offer, Vista City is the place where synergies among different community systems come to life. From giving community members accessible places to work in, parks to relax, and retail centers to shop or even set up shop,” Villar said.