Gateway Mall is a shopping mall located within the Araneta City in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines. The mall was opened in 2004 and is owned by the Araneta City, Inc. (ACI, Inc.), a subsidiary of the Araneta Group. The mall has 100,000 m2 (1,100,000 sq ft) of total floor area and attracts over 220,000 shoppers daily.[1]
The present Gateway Mall development was once known as the "Millenium Mall" project, a planned 7-storey mall adjacent to the Araneta Coliseum in the early stages of planning, along with the "Manhattan Mall", a 200,000 m2 (2,200,000 sq ft) mixed use development consisting retail and residential components, which became the Manhattan Gardens, as part of the Araneta Center Master Plan in the year 2000, and was established in 2002, under a ₱66.25 Billion ($1.25 Billion) budget. The Araneta Group tapped Felino Palafox of Palafox Associates and Sudhakar Thakurdesai of RTKL Associates as the main architects and urban planners of the project, along with the Deshazo Starek and Tang (now Deshazo Group), Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated and Colliers International as main consultants of the master plan. The plans for the mall contains a large part of the Araneta City, spanning from the Araneta Center–Cubao Line 2 station, around the west side of the Smart Araneta Coliseum, up to the Farmer's Market and General McArthur Avenue. Among the plans for the redevelopment master plan include the "Manila Tower", a 300 m (984.3 ft) planned mixed-use tower. The planned mall will have a total 600,000 m2 (6,500,000 sq ft) of retail spaces, with plans including an additional 340,000 m2 (3,700,000 sq ft) of entertainment spaces, a full scale skating rink, cineplexes, an IMAX Theater, a bowling alley, and a children and family entertainment center, which is aimed to have a total of 972,000 m2 (10,460,000 sq ft) of overall retail space in the Araneta City. The master plan commenced with the construction of the Gateway Mall in 2002, and the Gateway Mall 2 in 2017, with future expansion plans being laid out for the upcoming Gateway Mall 3.
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