In the early 1990s when Pampanga was reeling from the double whammy of the Mount Pinatubo explosion and the shutdown of US military bases, Jaime “Jack” Uy, together with younger brother
“Angeles was like a ghost town at that time, full of debris and lahar,” he says. At their old family house, eight truckloads of mudflow had to be hauled off.
But when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted and triggered stringent and recurring lockdowns, occupancy rate slid to 10 percent. At any given time, there were four or five hotels in Angeles being auctioned off, recalls Justine Uy, Best Western Plus Metro Clark general manager and also Uy’s son. Uy didn’t want to waste the training already given to the employees. With a bigger and better property , their headcount grew to 125 from 40.
As lockdown protocols have been eased, the Uys have seen a recovery in the business. They want to do their share in revitalizing tourism. There are now 36 of such Savers Malls across the country, although the largest one is still in the Uys’ Angeles hometown. This is the only one that sells the most expensive TV in the Philippines, a 120-inch Sharp unit that features the latest 8K Android technology. Currently the world’s largest LCD TV, the suggested retail price is about P3.39 million .
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