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■ ORTIGAS CENTER: It is a central business district located within the joint boundaries of Pasig,
Mandaluyong and Quezon City, within the Metro Manila region in the Philippines. With an area of more than 100 hectares (250 acres), it is Metro Manila's second most important business district after the Makati CBD. It is governed by Ortigas Center Association, Inc.
Ortigas Center is home to many shopping malls, office and condominium skyscrapers, nightlife bars, restaurants and other building complexes. These include the St. Francis Square, ADB, Oakwood Premier serviced apartments and Shangri-La hotel. It is also the headquarters of San Miguel Corporation, Jollibee Foods Corporation, the Philippine branch of HSBC and Robinsons Galleria. Also present in the area are Philippine offices of prominent engineering firms such as Parsons Brinckerhoff, Sinclair Knight Merz, and WSP Group.
It also home to the BDO main office owned by mall tycoon Henry Sy, Sr., as is the SM Megamall he owns—one of the largest malls in the nation—along EDSA. Also located near the Ortigas Center is The Medical City, one of the three hospitals in the nation accredited by the Joint Commission on International Accreditation. Ortigas Center is surrounded by the streets of
Ortigas Ave to the north, EDSA to the west, C-5 Road to the east, and Shaw Blvd to the south.
The northern portion of the area is part of Quezon City. It is situated south of Ugong Norte. The
EDSA Shrine and Robinsons Galleria is situated here. Robinsons Galleria is a mixed-use complex composed of two high-rise office towers namely the Galleria Corporate Center and the Robinsons Equitable Tower, the Holiday Inn Manila Ortigas and Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria, the Galleria Regency and a 5-level shopping mall. Before Robinsons Galleria, this mall used to be an open land owned by SSS within Ortigas Center. In 1986, they used the land for the People Power Revolution. In 1987, John Gokongwei bought the large portion of the land from SSS. It started construction on mid-1988 and finished on late-1989. The mall opened in 1990 being the first mall of Robinsons Malls. Buildings like the Union Bank Plaza, Marco Polo Ortigas Manila, The
Robinsons Cyberscape, The Orient Square, The Joy-Nostalg Center, The Meralco Theater are located here, as well as the Famous EDSA Shrine.
The western portion of Ortigas Center is part of Mandaluyong. It is in the eastern side of Barangay Wack-Wack Greenhills. This is where most of the shopping malls in the area located like SM Megamall, The Podium, Shangri-la Plaza Mall and St. Francis Square Mall. It is also proximity to nearby Robinsons Cybergate Center. The ADB HQ, The Edsa Shangri-La, Manila, The
One Shangri-La Place Towers, The St. Francis Shangri-La Place, The Malayan Plaza, The Discovery Suites, and The BDO Corporate Center are also located here.
The eastern portion is part of Pasig and is where most of the Ortigas Center's skyscrapers are located. The whole place is politically known as Barangay San Antonio. It is where most of Pasig's financial resources are primarily concentrated. The barangay of San Antonio has the largest income in Pasig, second only to San Lorenzo Village of Makati as the largest single income-generated govt unit. Buildings like The Benpres Bldg, Lopez Museum, One Corporate Centre, One San Miguel Avenue, Orient Square, Wynsum Corporate Plaza, as well as the
Department of Education (Philippines) Headquarters, The Tektite Towers, houses the former
trading floor of the Philippine Stock Exchange, Ayala Malls The 30th, The Octagon (Ortigas Center) and The Capitol Commons are located here.
The eastern extension areas of Ortigas Center are Ortigas East located at Barangay Ugong along C-5 Road and Capitol Commons located at Barangay Oranbo.
Local and Foreign Companies serve the CBD, such as the Amberland Corporation, Aventis
Pharma, Banco de Oro, Bank of Commerce, China State Construction Engineering Corp, Citibank,
Digital Telecommunications Philippines, JG Summit Holdings and its affiliates (Robinsons Land Corporation, Robinsons Bank, and Robinsons Malls), Meralco, Neville Clarke Phils., PCCW, San Miguel Corporation, 7-Eleven, Sykes Enterprises, TÜV SÜD Phils, Inc., Union Bank of the Philippines, Callhounds Global BPO Corporation, Vertiv, VeriFone, and other companies.
■ WALK ROUTE: Walk tour starts at SM Megamall then going towards Dona Julia Vargas Ave, San Miguel Ave, Exchange Rd, Meralco Ave and EDSA. Then take a train ride from Ortigas Stn to Ayala Stn. Walk tour continues and ends in SM Supermarket.
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