‘Forbes Estates Lipa underscores global luxury trends propelled by the pandemic: less emphasis on material wealth accumulation and more focus on one’s total health and wellbeing.’
Robinsons Land Corp. virtually unveiled recently its first premier luxury horizontal enclave, the Forbes Estates Lipa.
A master-planned community, Forbes Estates Lipa affords its residents the elusive “luxury of space, time, and a life well-lived,” the development’s three brand pillars.
At the virtual launch, guests experienced an immersive walk-through of the estate, its amenities and features.
“This shows our buyers and our property owners that the value we imbued in the land is not just for residential. It has a strong commercial potential in terms of value appreciation as well,“ said AJ de Leon, head of Business Development for Forbes Estates Lipa, Robinsons Land, who led the walk-through.
De Leon presented the spacious and lush green Estate Park complex which covers approximately 3,700 square meters (sq.m.). It is composed of four different parks namely the Picnic Grove, Tranquility Garden, Pet Park and the Wellness Park.
The virtual tour also showcased the huge one-hectare parcel of land devoted for the main open space called the Forbes Club. It offers a host of sporting and leisure facilities including a Garden Lounge, Fitness Center, Grand Ballroom, Pool Deck, Children’s Play Park, Tennis Court and Multi-Sport Covered Court.
Forbes Estates Lipa has four types of residential offerings at the enclave. The most prime among the residential offerings are the Club Lots composed of 10 corner lots that surround the Forbes Club. The lots are situated on the development’s 20-meter wide main avenue.
Next to the Club Lots is the Park Loop composed of eight lots adjacent to the Estate Park, which gives residents a feel of having “an extension of your garden.”
The next are the inner or corner lots called Estate Lots, which have an average lot size of 500 sq.m. The Estate Lots have wide roads that have dedicated bike lanes and jogging paths that residents can enjoy.
In the Courtyard Lots, residents can have their own semi-private park. With only six residential lots to a courtyard, residents will enjoy the perfect mix of community and privacy.
The estate was designed to improve the physical and mental well-being of its residents.
The designers also made sure to respect nature by designing spaces that ensure principles of sustainability were incorporated in the estate master-planning.
Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture firm Crearis plans to incorporate native species of trees and shrubs, and an orchard and fruit-bearing trees to make the landscape more productive. The firm also designed the estate to manage storm water and allow the water to percolate through.
The development of Forbes Estates Lipa underscores global luxury trends propelled by the pandemic. There was less emphasis on material wealth accumulation, and more focus was given to one’s total health and wellbeing being the ultimate wealth. It was also built around the need to have a strong sense of community and the goal to go back to basics, heavily inspired by minimalism and slow living.
Forbes Estates Lipa was anchored on the three brand pillars of luxury of space, time and a life well-lived.
Luxury of space conveys the estate’s restraint to build structures that clutter and a celebration of open space; such as its one-hectare clubhouse, low-density living of only 10 lots to a hectare, minimum average lot cuts of 500 sq.m. and a generous spread of 40 percent verdant open spaces in the entire property.
Luxury of time is channeled through the clubhouse and park amenity concepts which were curated and designed for life’s different moments whether it’s making time to move, play, muse and commune.
This article was originally published in Malaya Business Insight.