KMC Solutions launches the first fully dedicated serviced office building in the Philippines

KMC Solutions, the country’s largest flexible workspace and staff leasing provider in the Philippines, is unveiling their newest serviced office location at the Armstrong Corporate Center in Salcedo village, Makati. The fully dedicated flexible workspace building signals a first in the office real estate industry, with 8 whole serviced floors, a ground floor café, and 7,400 sqm of leasable space committed to serving the clients and tenants of KMC. To celebrate this premiere, KMC will be holding a small and intimate launch event for their community at the Armstrong Corporate Centre itself.

They will be relaunching their hit musical event, KMC Sunset Sessions (formerly KMC After Hours) — a showcase of select up-and-coming local musicians, as well as host an online press conference to be both livestreamed to their social media pages on the same day on Thursday, September 30, 2021.

As the community’s health and safety continue to be a top priority, KMC ensures that the event still adheres to strict COVID protocols — only accepting invited guests who have been vaccinated, along with available antigen swab testing being accessible onsite.

As KMC adapts a hybrid format for their latest launch event, this round of KMC Sunset Sessions will be featuring an exclusive musical performance by Bea Lorenzo, a Manila-based music artist exploring new and stylistic approaches on R&B/Soul. While the physical event is being held in their latest Makati location with a small, limited audience and guest list, the online press conference and the musical performances will be livestreamed and are easily and safely accessible to a wider audience at home.

Armstrong’s Design for Success

Identifying this new demand for scalable short-term and optimal work environments amid the workforce’s struggles of working in distraction-filled environments at home, KMC has continued to move forward in providing more options for workers’ ever-changing needs during this time.

Built together with SDW Realty & Development as the building contractor, Tracy Ignacio, the Chief Operating Officer of KMC Solutions, says these are one of the things that are able to set their newest serviced office building apart, “We will be able to define the whole building culture (and processes) given that we’re the sole tenant. This was designed by our homegrown designers – from ground to penthouse and it is the first time we’ve partnered with SDW as our general contractor who fitted out the space.”

Traditionally, flexible workspaces enter an agreement with a building’s management to get permission to operate and occupy certain levels on their premises. This makes it ideal for office workers and business owners who are looking into alternative options for office space but still desire to be in prestigious, secure, and credible business addresses.

With KMC’s Armstrong building however, it is a first in the office real estate scene for flexible workspace operators to put up an entire building of their own. The Armstrong Corporate Center has 14 levels in total with over 7, 400 sqm of leasable space and over 900 sqm per floor level. This makes it the largest serviced office facility at present in the Philippines, with its flexible workspaces occupying 8 floors of the building. Aside from offering the usual range of serviced office solutions — which includes coworking space, private offices and customized built-to-suit — what sets KMC Armstrong apart from the past office spaces KMC has opened around the metro is the increased scalability of its workspaces.

The Future of Work

With more and more businesses looking to transition their workforce operations to a hybrid work setup, flexible workspaces such as the one in Armstrong Corporate Centre provide the perfect venue for companies to safely do this transition. Although the return to the workplace has been gradual and steady, interest in both commercial and residential property has increased once again. Industrial and high traffic zones are showing early signs of the Philippines’ real estate recovery and despite most of business’ move out of the traditional office space, there has been reinvigorated interest in serviced offices as swing spaces, scaled down options, or second workplaces for companies that want to de- densify their headquarters.

The new demand for hybrid workspaces has been proven with numerous businesses and clients having already moved into the Armstrong building’s office spaces. Companies like Asia Premier One Source Inc., Zuellig Pharma Asia Pacific, and Unifin Inc. have recently moved their onsite operations to serviced
offices of their own and are now operating in the newly launched building.

KMC Solutions has over a decade of experience in delivering forward-thinking office spaces and high-performing teams to 400+ global brands and local businesses across multiple industries in the Philippines. With 55+ flexible workspaces in over 20+ locations around Metro Manila, Cebu, Clark and Iloilo, their expansive geographical footprint enables their clients to work in the most efficient, effective, and safest way possible. As the country’s largest flexible workspace and staff leasing provider, they are uniquely positioned to provide clients with the “who” and “where” they need to establish or grow their business in the Philippines.