Evia Lifestyle Center, the south’s premiere
lifestyle shopping and dining mecca, just added a new dimension to its approach
to modern mall-going by opening an exciting new hub for inventive breakthroughs
and learning – The University of the Philippines @Lab Innovation Hub.
The family of Vista Land Chairman Manny
Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar, along with officers from the University of
the Philippines (UP) recently launched this new Innovation Zone as the first
phase of development for the upcoming UP Alabang Campus in Vista Alabang.
Evia Lifestyle Center currently houses this groundbreaking
Innovation Zone and Incubator Hub that will, in the words of former Senate
President Villar, assert UP’s role as “the most dynamic University and the
leader in education in the country”. The hub, nicknamed UP @Lab (a play on
words that simultaneously mean “ablaze <alab>, a futuristic hub
<@Lab> and its location <ALABang>) is designed to be the first
spark that will initiate the academe and industry partnerships that UP aims to
create by putting up a campus in Alabang.
"UP @Lab is a dream brought to life by
the Villars for UP’s student-locators because it brings us closer to accessing
industry funding that makes our inventions and ideas a reality", said Dr.
Luis Sison, Project Leader of Diliman-based DOST-UP Enterprise and Innovation
Hub.
"This first building block of UP Alabang
allows us to solve issues that plague fledging start-ups, such as limited
access to industry and business expertise that have hindered the progress of
technology innovation and development in the country", said Dr. Aura
Matias, former Dean of the UP College of Engineering. "True to its name,
UP @Lab shines as a beacon of hope for technology development in our
country", she added.
UP @Lab is located in Level B1 of the Evia
Lifestyle Center. It is a fully-equipped innovation hub complete with four
start-up offices, two meeting rooms, and an open workspace area for visiting
locators. The hub will be run by the same team behind UP Diliman’s DOST-UP
Enterprise Center as a starting point for eventual operations in UP
The new UP Alabang campus in Vista Alabang’s
upcoming University Town, will house two new tech-driven centers for innovation
for the country’s premier university - the UP School of Technology
Entrepreneurship, and the UP Alabang Enterprise Center. The campus complex will
be co-developed by UP and Vista Land as part of a donation and development
agreement signed last June by university officials and the Villar Family. The
Villars donated five hectares of land in the upcoming University Town of Vista
Land's “communicity” development Vista Alabang in Daang Hari. The agreement
also includes a donation of PHP 300M worth of buildings and equipment to
be used in the creation of the campus.
Aside from becoming the latest education hub,
Evia Lifestyle Center continues to provide an impressive array of choices for shopping
at Vista Group’s concept stores – AllElectrics and AllToys, global fashion brands
like H&M and Uniqlo, local favorite go-to stores like Bench and Bayo and
shoe stores such as Res Toe Run and Payless ShoeSource. Various dining options
are also available at favorite resto brands located at the Piazza like Mama
Lou’s, Merlion Cuisine, Mesa, and TGI Fridays. Shoppers can also enjoy a unique
dining experience at Another Story, a place that transports one to the realm of
imagination and make-believe. Evia Lifestyle Center is also home to Vista
Cinemas, which boasts of its MX4D and Dolby ATMOS technologies, and its
state-of-the-art VIP Theater.
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