Ayala Center

For the shopping mall in Cebu City, see Ayala Center Cebu.

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.^[1]

Ayala Center

Logo since 2010, after a major rebranding scheme
Glorietta and surrounding buildings
Project
Opening date	1991; 34 years ago (1991)
Developer	Ayala Land
Owner	Ayala Land
Website	Ayala Malls
Physical features
Transport	3 Ayala  E  Ayala One Ayala  10   11   12   17   38   40   42   45   48   59  Glorietta  10   12   17   38   40   42   45   48   59  EDSA Ayala  EX01   L01   N01   NR01   NR17   W01   WR01   WR18   L16  Glorietta  L17  One Ayala
Location
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Coordinates: 14°33′07″N 121°01′23″E
Country	Philippines
Region	Metro Manila
City	Makati
Location	San Lorenzo, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines

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.^[2]

History

Aerial view of Glorietta in Ayala Center (2008)

Ayala Center's predecessors were the Makati Commercial Center and Greenbelt, originally an open-space park called Greenbelt Junction in the 1970s.^[3]

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 The Quad), 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).^[4][5] It was later renamed The Center Makati in the 1980s.^[6]

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.^[7][8] 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 Greenbelt.^[9]

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^[1][10][11] 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.^[12][13]

Facilities and tenants

Shopping malls

• Glorietta
• Greenbelt
• One Ayala

Department stores

• Rustan's
• SM Makati
• The Landmark
• Adora
• Marks & Spencer

• 
  Glorietta
• 
  Greenbelt
• 
  SM Makati
• 
  The Landmark
• 
  Ayala Malls One Ayala
• 
  Makati Avenue

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

• 
  The Link
• 
  Park Square

Hotels

• Ascott Makati (formerly Oakwood Premier)
• Dusit Thani Manila
• Makati Fairmont Hotel and Raffles Suites and Residences
• Holiday Inn & Suites Makati
• New World Renaissance Hotel
• Peninsula Manila
• Makati Shangri-La
• Seda One Ayala (pending start of operations)

Hotel InterContinental Manila was closed in 2015 and demolished shortly thereafter to make way for the redevelopment that is One Ayala.

• 
  Dusit Thani Manila
• 
  Makati Fairmont Hotel
• 
  Makati Shangri-La, Manila
• 
  InterContinental Manila
• 
  Raffles Makati
• 
  Holiday Inn Manila (foreground) with Park Terraces, Makati Fairmont Hotel, and Raffles Makati on the background. Also shown is the Glorietta 1 Corporate Center (right).

Office buildings

6750 Ayala Avenue

• 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

See also

Facade of Ayala Center Station

• Ayala Corporation
• Ayala Center Cebu
• Makati Central Business District