The newly inaugurated mall of the SM group at the Bonifacio Global City - the same commercial center graced by Hollywood fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker last week - was “illegally” built, according to the state agency tasked to commercially develop the country’s military bases.
Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), which owned the property where SM Aura Premier was built, said excavation for the property was done “without permission,” adding that “a poorly built retaining wall is jeopardizing the lives of nearby residents.”
“SM occupied the property forcibly after its request [to construct a road in front of the mall] was denied by the BCDA,” the agency’s president Arnel Paciano D. Casanova said.