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This is a list of shopping malls in Metro Manila, the Philippines.
The first enclosed shopping mall in the metropolis was Crystal Arcade located along Escolta Street in the downtown district of Binondo. This art deco building designed by Andrés Luna de San Pedro also housed the Manila Stock Exchange and was the Philippines' first air-conditioned building inaugurated on June 1, 1932.[1]
Prior to the Pacific War, Escolta Street was also home to the city's first standalone department stores, including H.E. Heacock, until then the largest department store in the Philippines, opening in 1900, and the Aguinaldo Department Store, the most premium store in the Philippines opening in 1921. Other notable stores in the 1920s and 1930s include the upscale La Puerta del Sol and Estrella del Norte.[1]
The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centered design type was Ali Mall in suburban Quezon City which opened in 1976.[2][3] This was followed by Harrison Plaza in Malate district which opened later that same year.[4]
- ^ a b Eva-Lotta Hedman, John Sidel (2001). Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories, p. 122. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415147913.
- ^ "Ali Mall: First shopping mall makes a comeback". Malaya. February 23, 2003. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
- ^ "DFA-NCR Northeast opens in Ali Mall". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ Carla B. Dizon (August 1, 2011). "Shopping mall history in the Philippines". Lease Sources Manila. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
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