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The Ayala Center is a 50-hectare (120-acre) mixed-use major commercial development operated by Ayala Land located in Barangay San Lorenzo within the Makati Central Business District in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. The complex comprises three shopping malls, three department stores, each with its own retail shops, restaurant arcades and cinemas, several hotels, eight residential towers, five office towers, four parking buildings, and leisure amenities such as the Greenbelt Park, Glorietta 3 Park, and the Ayala Museum, showcasing exhibits on Philippine history and art.
The Ayala Center is surrounded by Ayala Avenue, Dela Rosa Street, and Legazpi Street to the north, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA/C-4) to the east, Arnaiz Avenue to the south, and Paseo de Roxas to the west. The Ayala station of MRT Line 3 serves the area.
History
Ayala Center's predecessors were the Makati Commercial Center and Greenbelt, originally an open-space park called Greenbelt Junction in the 1970s.
The Makati Commercial Center, built in 1960, consisted of several small arcades (Maranaw Arcade, Makati Arcade, Angela Arcade, Lising's Commercial, Mayfair Center, Bricktown, Anson's), theaters (Rizal Theater and Quad Cinemas), freestanding retail outlets (including Makati Supermart, Sulo Restaurant, Automat Restaurant, Rustan's, Shoe Mart and Mercury Drug), open parks, and hotels (including Manila Garden Hotel and InterContinental Hotel Manila). It was later renamed The Center Makati in the 1980s.
On the other hand, Greenbelt evolved from an open-space park known as Greenbelt Junction, which in the 1970s had an aviary and surrounding low-rise structures with dining establishments. Additional developments in the 1980s include the Greenbelt Square, Fair Center, Greenbelt Arcade, a McDonald's branch, and Greenbelt Mall, which were later combined to form the old Greenbelt 1.
In the 1990s, the Ayalas redeveloped The Center Makati by merging the existing Makati Commercial Center with the Greenbelt complex into a new 50-hectare (120-acre) development and was renamed Ayala Center in 1991. Its redevelopment has been ongoing in phases since the late 2000s, which includes the renovation and expansion of Glorietta and Greenbelt malls and replacing old buildings and open parking spaces with new office buildings, residential towers, hotels, and the One Ayala complex, respectively.
Facilities and tenants
= Shopping malls
=Glorietta
Greenbelt
One Ayala
= Department stores
=Rustan's
SM Makati
The Landmark
Adora
Marks & Spencer
Debenhams (closed as of May 2021)
= Parking facilities
=Aside from the basement parking beneath Glorietta (interconnected with Park Terraces and Terraces Square), Greenbelt, and One Ayala, respectively, the following are the carpark buildings located at the complex:
6750 Steel Carpark
Park Square
Paseo Steel Carpark
The Link
= Hotels
=InterContinental Manila (closed in 2015)
Dusit Thani Manila
Holiday Inn & Suites Makati
Makati Fairmont Hotel and Raffles Suites and Residences
New World Renaissance Hotel
Peninsula Manila
Makati Shangri-La
Ascott Makati (formerly Oakwood Premier)
Seda One Ayala (under construction)
= Office buildings
=6750 Ayala Avenue
Glorietta 1 Corporate Center
Glorietta 2 Corporate Center
One Ayala Tower 1 (One Ayala East Tower)
One Ayala Tower 2 (One Ayala West Tower)
One Ayala South Tower (under construction)
Incidents
= 2000 bombing
=On May 17, 2000, at 5:02 p.m. PHT, Glorietta was bombed, injuring 12 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade. This bombing was said to be a precursor to the May 21, 2000 SM Megamall bombing and the December 30, 2000 Rizal Day bombings.
= 2007 explosion
=The 2007 Glorietta explosion ripped through the Glorietta 2 section of the Glorietta shopping complex at Ayala Center in Makati on October 19, 2007, killing 11 people and injuring 120. Despite conflicting reports, it was concluded that the explosion was caused by a faulty liquefied petroleum gas tank in a Chinese restaurant.
See also
Ayala Corporation
Ayala Center Cebu
Makati Central Business District
References
External links
Ayala Malls, Official Website
Inquirer.net, List of dead and injured in Glorietta blast
Inquirer.net, View interactive map and photos of Glorietta blast
GMA NEWS.TV, Partial list of casualties in Glorietta blast
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Makati
- Ayala Tower One
- Kota Cebu
- Indonesia
- Pusat Pengobatan Sheba
- Miss Earth 2023
- Indo Komoditi Korpora
- Magalang
- Pusat Pengobatan Hadassah
- Kota Lipa
- Ayala Center
- Ayala Center Cebu
- Greenbelt (Ayala Center)
- Ayala
- Ayala Malls
- One Ayala
- Ayala Malls Central Bloc
- Cebu IT Park
- Ayala station
- Ayala Avenue
