Good Buys and Good Bye Cubao X ? An update
It would seem like not all stores or galleries are leaving Cubao Expo. I went to visit the place a few days ago to check if indeed the news on the webvine was correct.Those leaving, like Chunky Far Flung Gallery, did not renew their contract with the present landlord of Cubao Shoe Expo. There were establishments that did renew their lease. The Italian restaurant Bellini’s will still be there. Vintage Pop, Black Soup Project, and Alternative Art Gallery will still be staying. The book store Datelines will remain as well and it is probably one of the few bookstores in the Philippines , with the exception of F.Sionil Jose’ Solidaridad, that students and bibliophiles conduct planned visits or field trips. So a number of Establishments have opted to stay. I wonder … Under what collective name it will be now known? Cubao X ? Cubao Shoe Expo? or will it be a completely new name?
Rent seems to be one of big factors in the migration Most of the shops leaving belong to the part of Cubao Show Expo stalls that had second floors The vendors were also slowly becoming extinct in the part of the Cubao pond. According to some of the shop keepers the whole place was being renovated. And new galleries and businesses were coming in. Even a gallery from Soho. Lets see.
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ininvite nga ako ng Pablo para dun sa yard sale last Sat eh, kyalang nde ako nakapunta sayang naman… tsk tsk tsk. Suki ako ng CubaoX eh.. hehe
Heneroso, nandoon pa rin naman ang Bellinis, Vintage Pop, at Datelines