SM City Pampanga is a shopping mall owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings. It is located along the

Jose Abad Santos Avenue Jose Abad Santos Avenue (JASA), also known as the Olongapo–Gapan Road and the Gapan–San Fernando–Olongapo Road, is a two-to-thirteen-lane major highway spanning the provinces of Bataan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, and Zambales in Central Luzon, ...

(formerly Olongapo-Gapan Road) in

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and

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

in the province of

Pampanga Pampanga, officially the Province of Pampanga ( pam, Lalawigan ning Pampanga; tl, Lalawigan ng Pampanga ), is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Lying on the northern shore of Manila Bay, Pampanga is bordered by Tarlac ...

. It has a land area of and a total gross floor area of . It is the first

SM Supermall SM Supermalls, also simply known as SM, owned by SM Prime, is a chain of shopping malls in the Philippines that as of November 18, 2022 has #Exiting malls, 82 malls located across the country and #Future malls, 20 more scheduled to be opened for ...

Central Luzon Central Luzon ( pam, (Reyun ning) Kalibudtarang Luzon, pag, (Rehiyon na) Pegley na Luzon, tgl, (Rehiyon ng) Gitnang Luzon, ilo, (Rehion/Deppaar ti) Tengnga ti Luzon), designated as Region III, is an administrative region in the Philippines, ...

and is currently the second largest shopping mall in the Northern and Central Luzon. The shopping mall is composed of the Main Building, Annex 1, Annex 2 and Annex 3.

Location

SM City Pampanga is located along

(formerly Olongapo-Gapan Road), corner

North Luzon Expressway The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network, partially as N160 of the Philippine highway network, and R-8 of the Metro Manila arterial road network, is a limited-access toll expressway that connects M ...

, Barangay San Jose, City of San Fernando, and Barangay Lagundi,

. The mall's east wing (Building 4) is located along the Jose Abad Santos Avenue, Barangay Lagundi, Mexico, Pampanga. On the rest of the mall complex, (Annex 1, Main Mall and Annex 2) is located on the same road but this time part of the City of San Fernando. The mall is adjacent to both the San Fernando Exit of the

and to the Robinsons Starmills Pampanga.

Physical Details

The mall opened in November 2000. An annex (building 2) was added in October 2002. Annex 3 (building 3), added 99,439 square meters to the mall's gross floor area. The newest annex (Building 4) opened in October 2007 with an additional 16,700 square meters of floor area.

Features

Sky Ranch

Sky Ranch Pampanga opened on November 30, 2014 and it is the second branch of the said amusement park after its first branch in

Tagaytay Tagaytay, officially the City of Tagaytay ( fil, Lungsod ng Tagaytay), is a 2nd class component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 85,330 people. It is one of the country's most po ...

Drive-in cinema

Upon the closure of cinemas since March 2020 amidst the

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, SM Cinema opened up a drive-in-cinema dubbed as ''SM Cinema: Movies at Sundown'' on July 31, 2020 located at the mall's amphitheater, with the ticket prices starting at 400 pesos, and must be purchased through SM Tickets website. The first film to be shown in this drive-in-cinema is the biggest

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, '' Train to Busan 2: Peninsula''.

Incident

*On September 20, 2011, before noontime, Two minors, both male, were critically injured in a shooting incident. *On April 22, 2019, an

earthquake An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...

almost made one of the logos fall down.

References

{{SMPH Shopping malls in Pampanga Shopping malls established in 2000 SM Prime Buildings and structures in San Fernando, Pampanga