Robinsons Dumaguete (formerly Robinsons Place Dumaguete) is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

located in

Dumaguete Dumaguete, officially the City of Dumaguete ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Dumaguete; fil, Lungsod ng Dumaguete), is a 3rd income class component city and the capital of the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a p ...

, Philippines. It has a total gross floor area of over and located on almost of land area. It is the first and largest full-service shopping mall in

Negros Oriental Negros Oriental ( ceb, Sidlakang Negros; tl, Silangang Negros), officially the Province of Negros Oriental, is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Dumaguete. It occupies the southeaste ...

and is a major component of the Dumaguete Business Park and IT Plaza in Brgy. Calindagan. It features an activity center, two atria, and an

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area. The mall brings the outlet store brands such as Uniqlo,

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, Bench, Dumaguete famous Sans Rival shop, Hukad by Golden Cowrie,

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, Shakey's Pizza Restaurant, and iStore among others. Located in its vicinity is Go Hotels Dumaguete, a hotel chain also owned by Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC), and a public transport terminal which serves the commuting public coming from north and south of Dumaguete and the rest of Negros Oriental, as well as those from the neighboring provinces of

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, and some areas in

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History

Robinsons Place Dumaguete opened on November 23, 2009, making it the 27th shopping mall development of

Robinsons Malls Robinsons Malls is one of the List of shopping malls in the Philippines, largest shopping malls and retail operators in the Philippines. It was incorporated on September 9, 1997, by entrepreneur John Gokongwei, John Gokongwei Jr. to develop, c ...

, a division under Robinsons Land Corporation. It was constructed by Freyssinet Philippines, Inc. and is RLC's sixth mall development in the

Visayas The Visayas ( ), or the Visayan Islands (Bisayan languages, Visayan: ''Kabisay-an'', ; tl, Kabisayaan ), are one of the three Island groups of the Philippines, principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Luzon and Mindanao ...

, and second in

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after Robinsons Place Bacolod. The mall has been awarded by the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) as the ''Mall of the Year'' for 2012. In October 2015, the Department of Foreign Affairs opened a

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at the mall's second level. RPD launched the Lingkod Pinoy Center wherein some government agencies have put up offices inside the mall such as

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, SSS, Philhealth, LTO, PhilPost, Bureau of Quarantine and PSA. The mall is currently undergoing major redevelopment and expansion.

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