Английская Википедия:Greenbelt (Ayala Center)

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Greenbelt is a shopping mall located at Ayala Center, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines, near Glorietta. It is owned by Ayala Malls, a real-estate subsidiary of Ayala Land, which is an affiliate of Ayala Corporation. It opened in 1988 and is one of the Ayala Corporation's flagship projects. The mall offers a mix of high-end retail shops, restaurants, amenities, leisure and entertainment. Currently, the mall has five sections: two enclosed areas, two buildings with open-air shopping areas, and Greenbelt 5, which was opened in 2007.

History

Built around a Шаблон:Convert retail complex, the mall merged the previous small arcades and shops. The mall first opened to the public in 1988. Real estate company Ayala Land conceptualized Greenbelt as the Philippines's first lifestyle center with bars, posh boutiques, lush tropical greenery, a world-class museum, and an elegant chapel. It was renovated in 2001, and as the complex grew, Greenbelt 2 and 3 were opened in 2002, with Greenbelt 4 and 5 opening in 2004 and 2007, respectively, based on other pioneer shops in the area.

The mall was undergoing major re-development, with the ground level of Greenbelt 3 closed in 2019 for renovation. The new area reopened in October 2021, which now hosts luxury labels and a newly renovated Starbucks Reserve cafe. Greenbelt 4 started its renovation works in the third quarter of 2022 and reopened in April 2023.

Future redevelopment

Greenbelt 1, Paseo Steel Carpark, and the McDonald's Greenbelt branch will be demolished starting in the first half of 2024 as part of the redevelopment of the complex. Those will be replaced by a newer complex that will include a hotel, office spaces, a larger cinema complex, and possibly a park. The new Greenbelt 1, which will have four retail levels along with four parking levels beneath, is expected to open in 2028.

Most restaurants in Greenbelt 2 have closed to make way for this section's redevelopment that will start in mid-2024 and expected to be finished in 2026.

Features

Шаблон:More citations needed Greenbelt, located in Ayala Center, has a gross leasable area (GLA) of Шаблон:Cvt, making it the ninth largest shopping mall in the Philippines in terms of GLA, tied with Glorietta. Its lot is bounded by Legazpi Street, Dela Rosa Street, Makati Avenue, Esperanza Street, and Paseo de Roxas. It is divided into five sections: Greenbelt 1 to 5. Surrounded by those five sections is the Greenbelt Park, which contains the Santo Niño de Paz Greenbelt Chapel and is bisected by Greenbelt Drive. It is also linked to Legazpi Village through the De La Rosa Elevated Walkway and to The Landmark through a pedestrian footbridge.

Retail shops

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Greenbelt 5

Greenbelt 1 features lifestyle, food, and supply stores, as well as two cinemas and the OnStage Theater (a performing arts theater home to Repertory Philippines) that are currently closed. It is also the location of a branch of The Marketplace supermarket. It used to be the location of Automatic Centre, the anchor appliance store, until its closure on October 10, 2021.

Greenbelt 2 features high-end restaurants and the Greenbelt Townhomes, a two- to three-story condominium on top.

Greenbelt 3 features a mix of international brands including luxury labels, sit-down restaurants, five cinemas and entertainment facilities. The largest Philippine branch known as Louis Vuitton was found here. It is also the location of the Philippines's third 4DX cinema, launched in 2016.

Greenbelt 4 features high-end boutiques. Also included are branches of H&M and Globe store.

Greenbelt 5 has boutiques of Filipino designers, high-end department store Adora, and boutiques.

Restaurants

Restaurants can be found in Greenbelt 1, 2, 3, and 5, with Greenbelt 1 concentrating more on fast food, and Greenbelt 2, 3, and 5 featuring sit-down restaurants.

The complex is also home to a colony of well-fed cats who lounge around walkways and in unoccupied outdoor cafe seats.

Parking

Greenbelt is served by an interconnected basement parking built beneath it. It is also served by parking buildings at Greenbelt 1 and 2, respectively, and the Paseo Steel Parking, located at the corner of Paseo de Roxas and Esperanza Street. The steel parking and Greenbelt 2 parking are interconnected to each other.

Other

Santo Niño de Paz Greenbelt Chapel is a Roman Catholic place of worship in Greenbelt Park at the complex's center. Built as an open-air, concrete dome in the middle of a pond, the chapel holds masses and other religious services every day for mall patrons and office workers. It celebrates its titular feast day every third Sunday of January.

Incidents

On October 18, 2009, between 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. PHT, heavily armed thieves overpowered the mall's security guards and broke into a Rolex watch shop in Greenbelt 5. The thieves, dressed in bomb squad uniforms, hammered the glass cases containing Rolex watches. A suspected robber was killed by two police escorts of Taguig Mayor Sigfrido Tiñga who, incidentally, happened to be present upon the heist while the other gun-men escaped with an undetermined value of expensive watches.

Fire incidents

• April 15, 2010: A fire broke out from an Indian restaurant in Greenbelt 3 at 6:44 p.m., causing adjacent restaurants and the nearby cinemas to temporarily close.
• July 4, 2016: A fire broke out from a BPI branch in Greenbelt 1 at 9:11 a.m. It reportedly started from the bank's warehouse. It was put out by 3:31 p.m.

Gallery

• Palm trees at the Greenbelt Park

  Palm trees at the Greenbelt Park

• Greenbelt 1 as seen from Gamboa Street

  Greenbelt 1 as seen from Gamboa Street

• Santo Niño de Paz Greenbelt Chapel

  Santo Niño de Paz Greenbelt Chapel

• Paul Smith boutique in Greenbelt 5

  Paul Smith boutique in Greenbelt 5

• Raffles Hotels & Resorts as seen from Greenbelt

  Raffles Hotels & Resorts as seen from Greenbelt

• Greenbelt Park and dining

  Greenbelt Park and dining

See also

• List of largest shopping malls
• List of largest shopping malls in the Philippines
• List of shopping malls in Metro Manila

External links

• Greenbelt Official website