Filinvest Land Inc. said Thursday its office business unit Filinvest Cyberparks Inc. (FCI) secured the lease for office space to host National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) main office.
FLI said in a disclosure to the stock exchange NBI would lease nine floors with a gross leasable area of 23,595 square meters in two buildings located within Filinvest Cyberzone Bay City (FCBC) in Pasay City.
FCI’s proposal emerged as the most compelling, having the lowest calculated quotation among 11 submissions from 10 participants, it said.
Its offered leased spaces were then post-qualified and resolved to be compliant with NBI’s requirements contained in the bidding documents.
NBI issued the notice to proceed on June 24, 2024 and conducted another site inspection headed by newly appointed director Jaime Santiago
The NBI will occupy new offices from the 3rd to the 9th floors of Building C and the 8th and 9th floors of Building D.
It will also have 464 parking slots to ensure seamless accessibility for NBI personnel and visitors.
“Following our recent lease agreement with the Department of Trade and Industry [DTI], we are now privileged to partner with the NBI,” said FLI president and chief executive Tristan Las Marias. Jenniffer B. Austria
“We are deeply honored by NBI’s decision to choose Filinvest as their office provider, and we are committed to supporting government in enhancing public services for the Filipino people,” he said.
NBI chief Jaime Santiago said the move would boost the bureau’s investigation, intelligence and forensic capabilities and will flawless service to the public.
FCBC is a four-building mixed-use development located along Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay City, making it highly connected to major thoroughfares such as EDSA, Roxas Boulevard and Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard.
It features amenities such as high-density telecommunications provision with four telco rooms, N+1 emergency back-up power, redundant provisions for power cabling, and fire safety density provision.
FLI’s office portfolio consists of 34 developments, of which 17 have been infused into Filinvest REIT Corp.
