Century Properties, one of the top real-estate firms in the country, unveiled recently the Gramercy Residences, its first condominium building that will rise inside the Century City.

Located at the former International School grounds, Century City will rise on the last remaining large piece of prime real estate in the very heart of the Philippines’ central business district, or what is now being called “MoMa,” or “Modern Makati.”

Top officials of the property company, led by its chairman, Amb. Jose Eduardo B. Antonio, chief operating officer John Victor R. Antonio, managing director Marco R. Antonio and creative director GP Reyes, formally introduced The Gramercy Residences, the first residential condo that will rise in the firm’s 4.8-hectare mixed-use Makati project called Century City.

Fully fitted, fully furnished and fully serviced units, a concept pioneered by the company, are among the biggest selling points of the project. It will also feature a six-level lifestyle and entertainment center from the ground floor.

Named after a private residential park in New York, the P5-billion Gramercy will have a minimum of 65 floors. Designing this residential masterpiece is the renowned Jon Adams Jerde, a Los Angeles-based award-winning architect and urban planner. Filipino interior designer Chat Fores created six interior-design themes for unit buyers to choose from.

There are 1,000 residential units that come in flat and loft configurations—from a 26-sq-m studio to a 154-sq-m three-bedroom loft.

Its so-called hyperamenities include the 6,000-sq-m, three-floor Sky Park, an amenity deck with three pools, three gyms, a day-care center, spa, DVD library and THX theater, café, book club, lounge, conference room, yoga and Pilates room set 36 stories above the ground, providing residents with unobstructed views of the Makati skyline.

The Gramercy’s groundbreaking will be held on the fourth quarter of 2007. The tower’s first phase will be completed in 2011.

Century City will comprise 60-percent residential spaces, 30-percent offices and 10-percent commercial spaces. Ownership starts at P2.5 million, or P18,000/month.

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1.       The first development to fully employ Jon Adams Jerde’s Virtual Landscaping—the science and art of combining audio, video and lighting technology with traditional landscaping in areas where people usually couldn’t experience nature because of limited space.

Imagine seeing lush greenery in the amenity deck of your condo, enhanced by the beautiful song of birds coming from an invisible audio system, or a serene picture of the immaculate sea projected by an LCD screen.  

2.       The Gramercy Residences, the first fully furnished, fully serviced, hyper-amenitized luxury condo in the Philippines with six interior-design options. 

3.       The world’s first Sky Park, a 6,000-square-meter, three-level amenity deck located 36 floors above the ground and traversing Century City’s residential towers. Together with the other pocket sky gardens that will be a common feature in all the buildings of Century City, The Sky Park will offer unobstructed, breathtaking views of the Makati skyline. 

4.       The first vertical “green” IT Park in Makati. Century City’s office buildings will sit in a one-hectare parcel of land that will become a Philippine Economic Zone Authority-accredited IT park. The office buildings are being designed to comply with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System in the United States.

                The first office building will have floor plates of 2,000 sq m, and about 120,000 sq m of leasable space. 

5.       The first 24/365 integrated development. Century City will introduce the 24 x 365 dynamic, in which shops, restaurants and bars will be open late, and most services will be accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.  

6.       The first nature-inspired Lifestyle Center. The retail component will be unlike any other mall. It will be a glassed-in complex shaped like curving canyons.

Clarification: Century City is a 3.4 hectare development within the former International School of Manila (“Property”) consisting of 4.8 hectares. Picar Holdings Inc. owns 1.3 hectares of the property and has the exclusive right to build a hotel.  

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