MREIT and e27 Plan a McKinley Hill Startup Hub for 2026
A 2,000-square-meter flexible workspace pilot in Taguig points to a more permanent regional playbook for founder support, investor access, and township-based innovation hubs.
Source-backed regional brief from BusinessWorld Online
MREIT announced a partnership with Singapore-based e27 to develop a startup hub inside a planned Digital Park in McKinley Hill, Taguig City. The pilot is expected to include around 2,000 square meters of flexible workspace for startups and emerging businesses when it opens in 2026.
The reported model goes beyond desks. MREIT and e27 described a phased approach involving partner identification, investor and accelerator collaboration, startup-investor sessions, networking activities, and other founder-support programming.
For Philippine founders, this matters because ecosystem support is becoming more place-based and continuous. A permanent hub can create weekly mentorship, investor access, and skills development that are harder to sustain through one-off events alone.
For Cebu and Visayas ecosystem builders, the more interesting signal is portability. MREIT said similar hubs are planned in other Megaworld townships, including Iloilo Business Park. If that model works, regional startup density could grow through mixed-use districts that already combine offices, schools, residents, and corporate tenants.
The caution is execution. A startup hub becomes meaningful only when programming, operator trust, and investor participation are consistent. Founders should evaluate hubs by access quality and customer pathways, not furniture or launch-day photos.