Suncity Group’s Philippine unit, Suntrust Home Developers, is now known primarily as a tourism-related company on the Philippine Stock Exchange. Suncity owns 51 percent of the subsidiary, which is developing the Westside City Project in Manila.
Westside City will include a casino with a total gross floor area of at least 182,000 square meters (almost 2 million square feet) with 400 gaming tables, approximately 1,200 slot machines, 400 five-star hotel rooms and other amenities. Phase I of the project is expected to open in late 2022.
Eventually, the resort will be integrated with shopping malls, theatres, restaurants and shopping streets, etc. to be built by Westside City Resorts World Inc., which also includes 2,000 additional hotel rooms, a shopping mall, a Grand Opera House, restaurants and theatre district, and an additional of approximately 2,000 car park spaces, according to Asia Gaming Brief.
“Suncity is laying down a solid growth blueprint,” said Suncity Chairman Chau Cheok Wa. “I am very excited to see the company achieving one milestone after another. Firstly, in Vietnam, Hoiana is ready to be unveiled to the public as early as summer 2020. Then, in Russia, Tigre de Cristal’s Phase 1 upgrade will be up and running later in 2020.
“And now, SunTrust is finally a listed tourism and integrated resort company in the Philippines—very exciting times ahead for Suncity indeed.”
As noted, Suncity’s Hoiana integrated resort in Vietnam, in development since 2016, opened for a preview on June 28. When Phase 1 is complete, it will include four hotels, suites and villas, the Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed Hoiana Shores Golf Club, a wide array of F&B and retail brands and both gaming and non-gaming entertainment, all with a panoramic sea view.
