SM City CDO Uptown

SM City CDO Uptown is a shopping mall in the Carmen district of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. It was originally opened as SM City Cagayan de Oro on November 15, 2002, becoming the first SM Supermall in Northern Mindanao. The mall occupies a 5.2-hectare site and originally opened with approximately 111,837 square meters of gross floor area. Its development extended the SM Supermall network into one of the principal urban centers of Mindanao and established the property as a major retail, dining, services, and entertainment destination for Cagayan de Oro and surrounding communities. The property is owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings, the Philippine property company behind the SM Supermalls network. Its principal facilities include a main mall building, a multilevel parking structure, and the Northwing expansion. The main mall provides a broad mix of department-store, supermarket, home-improvement, electronics, hardware, toy, apparel, specialty-retail, restaurant, and entertainment uses. Identified anchors and major facilities include SM Store, SM Supermarket, Cyberzone, SM Appliance Center, Ace Hardware, Our Home, Toy Kingdom, and SM Cinema. The cinema component has four auditoriums, while the wider complex also includes service centers, restaurants, indoor parking, and outdoor parking. The mall has evolved through changes to its building configuration and tenant allocation. Parts of the former car-park retail area were relocated as the property made room for updated or expanded facilities, including the Ace Hardware and SM Appliance Center locations. The car-park building has also been used for apparel retail and leisure-oriented activities, including a kart-racing track on its roof deck. These changes reflect the mall's effort to update its tenant mix and adapt circulation, parking, and entertainment functions to changing customer needs. In June 2022, the property was renamed SM City CDO Uptown. The new name distinguishes it from SM CDO Downtown, another SM property in the same city, and reinforces its location in Cagayan de Oro's uptown area. The mall also became the first SM mall to display the company's new logo. That same period brought the opening of the four-storey Northwing on June 30, 2022. The Northwing added approximately 24,000 square meters of gross floor area and about 8,000 square meters of gross leasable area, with retail and restaurant uses on the first floor, wellness-oriented services on the second floor, and parking above. The Northwing was designed around more open and breathable environments, including open-air dining areas, drive-through outlets, and landscaped pockets. Its format broadens the complex beyond a conventional enclosed shopping center by supporting casual dining, wellness services, and outdoor-oriented visits. A substantial renovation and expansion of the original main building has also been underway, involving demolition and rebuilding in sections, revised entrances, new connections between the main mall and Northwing, changes to the locations of major anchors, and potential additional second-floor and food-court space. Across from the mall, SM Development Corporation's Vail Residences represents a related residential development in Cagayan de Oro and the first SMDC project in Northern Mindanao. The project is planned in two phases, consisting initially of low-rise residential buildings and later a twin-tower development with ground-floor retail. Together, the mall and adjacent residential project illustrate the broader mixed-use direction of SM's property development in the city. SM City CDO Uptown remains an active regional retail property, although its final post-renovation configuration and completion timing are not specified in the available reference material.

SM City CDO Uptown began operations as SM City Cagayan de Oro on November 15, 2002, in Carmen, Cagayan de Oro. With an opening gross floor area of approximately 111,837 square meters on a 5.2-hectare site, it became the first SM Supermall in Northern Mindanao. The project brought SM Prime Holdings' integrated shopping-mall format to a major regional center in Mindanao, combining department-store and supermarket anchors with specialty retail, dining, services, parking, and cinema entertainment. The original main mall occupied approximately 87,837 square meters of gross floor area. Its tenant and anchor mix included SM Store, SM Supermarket, Cyberzone, SM Appliance Center, Ace Hardware, Our Home, Toy Kingdom, and four SM Cinema auditoriums. The property also provided indoor and outdoor parking and a range of restaurants and service businesses. Its architectural treatment was described as sharing similarities with other SM properties, including SM City Pampanga and SM City Davao. Over time, the mall's physical layout was modified. Retail uses in parts of the multilevel car-park building were moved into the main mall to support changes to the anchor and tenant plan. The former car-park retail area had included apparel stores and a roof-deck kart-racing track; later changes made room for facilities such as Ace Hardware and SM Appliance Center. Some stores were also moved to the Northwing while renovation work affected sections of the original building. A major expansion phase was represented by the Northwing, a four-storey building with approximately 24,000 square meters of gross floor area and 8,000 square meters of gross leasable area. The Northwing opened on June 30, 2022. Its first floor was planned for restaurants and shops, its second floor for wellness uses such as salons, spas, and optical centers, and its upper floors for more than 300 parking spaces. Drive-through outlets, open-air dining areas, and landscaped pockets were incorporated to provide more breathable and leisure-oriented environments. In June 2022, the original mall name was changed to SM City CDO Uptown. The change separated the property from SM CDO Downtown, another SM Supermall in Cagayan de Oro, while retaining the local shorthand SM Uptown. The property was also the first SM mall to use the company's new logo. The renaming coincided with a broader effort to update the complex and clarify its role within the city's two-mall SM network. Renovation and expansion works on the main mall have included demolition and replacement of portions of the original structure, planned new bridges between the main mall and Northwing, entrance modifications, a refreshed exterior, and changes to the locations of the SM Store and SM Supermarket. The available reference material does not establish a final completion date or the final size of the expanded main building. The property is also associated with the adjacent Vail Residences development by SM Development Corporation. Described as SMDC's first project in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao, Vail Residences is planned in two phases, with an initial group of four-storey buildings followed by a taller twin-tower phase containing ground-floor retail. The residential project extends the surrounding SM development beyond shopping and entertainment into mixed-use urban development. SM City CDO Uptown remains an active shopping mall serving Cagayan de Oro and the wider Northern Mindanao market.

• 2022

  Property renamed SM City CDO Uptown

  [1]SM City CDO Uptownen.wikipedia.org

  The mall adopted its current name to distinguish it from SM CDO Downtown in the same city and became the first SM mall to use the new SM logo.

• 2022

  Northwing opened

  [1]SM City CDO Uptownen.wikipedia.org

  The four-storey Northwing opened on June 30 with shops, restaurants, wellness services, drive-through outlets, open-air areas, and upper-level parking.

• 2002

  Original mall opened

  [1]SM City CDO Uptownen.wikipedia.org

  SM City Cagayan de Oro opened on November 15 as the first SM Supermall in Northern Mindanao, with approximately 111,837 square meters of gross floor area.

• Main-building renovation and expansion

  [1]SM City CDO Uptownen.wikipedia.org

  A continuing redevelopment program began affecting the original main building, including structural replacement, new connections to the Northwing, entrance changes, and possible additional retail and food-court space.

A full-service regional shopping and entertainment destination serving Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao, combining mass-market retail anchors with dining, cinemas, services, wellness businesses, parking, and newer open-air lifestyle spaces.

• Shopping mall · 2002

  Main Mall

  The principal enclosed retail building, with approximately 87,837 square meters of gross floor area. It combines department-store and supermarket anchors with electronics, home, hardware, toy, fashion, specialty-retail, restaurant, service, parking, and cinema functions. The building has been undergoing renovation and reconfiguration, including changes to anchor locations, entrances, internal circulation, and connections to the Northwing.

• Lifestyle and retail expansion · 2022

  Northwing

  A four-storey expansion building with approximately 24,000 square meters of gross floor area and 8,000 square meters of gross leasable area. Its lower levels contain restaurants, shops, and wellness services, while the upper floors provide parking. Open-air dining, landscaped pockets, and drive-through outlets are central features of its more relaxed lifestyle-oriented design.

• Cinema and entertainment · 2002

  SM Cinema

  The mall's cinema offering consists of four SM Cinema auditoriums, providing movie entertainment within the wider shopping, dining, and leisure complex.

• Retail anchors · 2002

  Retail and service anchors

  The property hosts major SM and third-party retail anchors including SM Store, SM Supermarket, Cyberzone, SM Appliance Center, Ace Hardware, Our Home, and Toy Kingdom. Together they cover apparel, groceries, consumer electronics, appliances, hardware, home furnishings, toys, and technology-oriented specialty retail.

• 2022

  Rename the property as SM City CDO UptownStrategy

  Background

  The city gained another SM property, SM CDO Downtown, creating a need to distinguish the two locations and clarify the older mall's uptown position.

  Action taken

  SM changed the mall's name from SM City Cagayan de Oro to SM City CDO Uptown in June 2022 and introduced the new SM logo at the property.

  Aftermath

  The renamed mall continued operating as the SM Supermall serving the city's uptown area, while the Northwing expansion opened during the same period.

  Source

• 2022

  Open the Northwing expansionProduct launch

  Background

  The established mall required additional retail, dining, wellness, and parking capacity and sought to respond to changing preferences for open-air and more breathable spaces.

  Action taken

  SM opened the four-storey Northwing on June 30, adding restaurants, shops, wellness services, drive-through outlets, landscaped areas, and more than 300 parking spaces.

  Aftermath

  The Northwing broadened the property's lifestyle and dining offer and became a separate expansion component connected to the original mall.

  Source

• Redevelop the original main buildingGeneration change

  Background

  Parts of the original structure and tenant layout required modernization as the property expanded and the Northwing became part of the wider complex.

  Action taken

  The operator began demolition and rebuilding in sections, moved selected tenants, planned two new bridges to the Northwing, revised the main entrance, refreshed the facade, and considered additional second-floor and food-court space.

  Aftermath

  Construction remained ongoing in the available reference material, so the final completed configuration and timing are not established.

  Source

1. 1SM City CDO Uptownen.wikipedia.org
2. 2SM Supermalls official mall pagesmsupermalls.com