SM City Grand Central

For the third SM mall in Caloocan in Deparo Road, see SM City Caloocan.

SM City Grand Central is a shopping mall owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings, the Philippines' largest mall operator. It is located along Rizal Avenue Extension, Caloocan, Metro Manila. It is built on the former site of the Ever Gotesco Grand Central that caught fire in 2012, and is the mall's third acquisition from Ever Gotesco Malls, having previously acquired Ever Gotesco Ortigas (and reopened as SM City East Ortigas) and its standalone mall near the Monumento roundabout, establishing SM Hypermarket Monumento.

SM City Grand Central

The facade of SM City Grand Central in 2025
Location	Rizal Avenue Extension, Caloocan, Philippines
Coordinates	14.65529228°N 120.98482063°E / 14.65529228; 120.9848206314°39'19.05221"N, 120°59'5.35427"E
Opening date	As Ever Gotesco Grand Central: August 1988; 37 years ago (1988-08) As SM City Grand Central: November 26, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-26)
Closing date	As Ever Gotesco Grand Central: March 17, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-03-17)
Developer	SM Prime Holdings
Management	SM Prime Holdings
Total retail floor area	102,790 m2 (1,106,400 sq ft)
No. of floors	5 upper + 1 basement[a]
Parking	700
Public transit access	Monumento  8   14   19   35   42  Monumento
Website	SM City Grand Central

It is the 2nd SM Supermall in Caloocan and the 78th overall.

History

Ever Gotesco Grand Central prior to the 2012 fire

SM City Grand Central was known as Ever Gotesco Grand Central from August 1988 until the building burned down on March 17, 2012.^[1] Final demolition came from 2012 to 2013. In 2015, SM bought the rights to renovate the mall and named it SM City Grand Central. The newly built mall was opened to the public on November 26, 2021.^[2]

Features

The mall has a floor area of 102,790 m² (1,106,400 sq ft) with six floors.^[2] It features SM Store and SM Supermarket. It also hosts Ace Hardware, Our Home, Watsons, Surplus, Sports Central, Pet Express, Miniso and others. It has four state-of-the-art cinemas and two director's clubs, as well as Cyberzone.

It offers Skylight Park indoor garden and Chapel of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, a Roman Catholic chapel. The mall has parking space for 700 cars.^[3] The mall is directly linked to Monumento LRT station.

Gallery

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  Parking entrance at L. Bustamante Street
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  Atrium
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  Chapel of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary
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  5th Floor, featuring the Skylight Park indoor garden

Notes

1. The basement level is known as the Lower Ground Level.

External links

• Media related to SM City Grand Central at Wikimedia Commons