Ayala Center Cebu
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 Ayala Center Cebu Terraces | |
| Location | Cebu City |
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| Coordinates | 10°19′4″N 123°54′18″E / 10.31778°N 123.90500°ECoordinates: 10°19′4″N 123°54′18″E / 10.31778°N 123.90500°E |
| Address | Cebu Business Park, Archbishop Reyes Avenue, Cebu City |
| Opening date | November 1994 |
| Developer | Ayala Corporation |
| Management | Ayala Corporation |
| Owner | Ayala Corporation |
| No. of stores and services | 680 |
| Total retail floor area | 240,688 square metres (2,590,740 sq ft) |
| No. of floors | 5 |
| Website | http://www.ayalamalls.com.ph/malls-philippines/ayala-center-cebu |
Ayala Center Cebu is a large shopping mall at the Cebu Business Park in Cebu City, Philippines. It is the first Ayala Shopping Center located outside Metro Manila. It was opened in 1994, and is owned by Ayala Malls.
On an average day, more than 85,000 people visit Ayala Center Cebu, with the figure increasing to 135,000 on weekends.[1] It is the centerpiece of the Cebu Business Park Complex.
Development
On October 30, 2008, Ayala Center Cebu opened "The Terraces", a ₱600-million project which converted the mall's lagoon area into a food and beverage mall extension.
The mall had also added over 200 stores in its four-level retail expansion plus a condominium called the Park Point Residences. Forty of the 200 outlets opened on December 11, 2013 during the unveiling of the expansion. The ₱2.9 billion expansion completes the retail master plan of Ayala Center, with an additional 36,500 square meters of gross leasable area.
In 2015, a new corporate center called The Ayala Center Cebu Tower Was Built. It will accommodate BPO Offices and fashion store H&M.
In 2016, Another condominium Named The Alcoves, will be built at the original main entrance of the mall. part of it will also be an expansion of the mall.
Awards
- Finalist, Best Shopping Center of the Year (Philippine Retailer's Association and Department of Trade and Industry, 2002)
Incidents
Cinema 5 ceiling collapse
On June 15, 2015, the ceiling at the Cinema 5 next to the mall collapsed at around 8:50pm, during a launching event of a BPO company. A piping problem in the cinema's sprinkler system had caused the collapse. It is also believed that an earthquake that struck the area last March had caused the piping problem.[2] Nine people were reported wounded.[3]
Metro Department Store fire
On January 5, 2018, the third floor of the Metro store at the mall was engulfed in smoke as fire broke out from the store's toy stockroom. Customers and personnel were safely evacuated. It took two days to completely extinguish the fire. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Philippine Daily Inquirer - Cebuanos develop shopping, leisure habits Archived February 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Loose piping caused ceiling to collapse in Ayala cinema". Sun.Star. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ↑ "Wounded in Cebu cinema incident rises to 9". SunStar. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ↑ "Fire hits Cebu mall". Rappler. Retrieved 2018-01-06.