Harrison Plaza

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Harrison Plaza
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Harrison Plaza
Location Malate, Manila, Philippines
Coordinates 14°33′45.5″N120°59′23″E / 14.562639°N 120.98972°E / 14.562639; 120.98972
Address Adriatico Street cor. Ocampo Street
Opening date1976;48 years ago (1976)
Closing dateDecember 31, 2019;4 years ago (2019-12-31) [1]
ManagementTourist Trade and Travel Corporation (from Martel family) [1]
Owner City Government of Manila [2] [3]
No. of stores and servicesMore than 200
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 178,000 m2 (1,920,000 sq ft)
No. of floors2
ParkingOpen carpark

Harrison Plaza (HP) was a shopping mall situated along Adriatico Street corner Ocampo Street in the district of Malate in Manila, Philippines. Opened in 1976 and closed at the end of 2019, it was the first modern and major shopping mall located in the area. The shopping mall building has been demolished to give way for a redevelopment of the site into residential building complex with a shopping center called SM City Harrison by SM Prime Holdings.

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History

First opening

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SM Department Store in Harrison Plaza

The property was built in a former cemetery destroyed during World War II and cleared of graves afterwards. Before the development, the area used to be known as Fort San Antonio Abad in Malate, Manila, Harrison Park, and Ermita Cemetery, respectively. [2] [4]

Harrison Plaza opened in 1976 and was the first modern shopping mall in the Philippines after the opening of Ali Mall. The Martel family leased the lot where the mall is standing under a contract with the city government of Manila. [2] Despite being built on the site of a former cemetery, very few urban legends involved the place. [5] [6] The retail center was the first air-conditioned shopping mall in the Philippines. [7]

Fire, two-year closure, second opening

After the mall was razed by a fire, [8] it was shuttered for renovations from 1982 to 1984. [7] When it was reopened to the public in 1984, the mall featured a cinema, amusement rides, a jai alai fronton site (until it was converted to SM Hypermarket in 2010), a fountain, a Catholic chapel, and a hotel in the 1990s. It was anchored by the country's major department store chains like SM Department Store and Rustan's.

Aftermath

While new malls were being built by SM, Ayala, Robinsons, and Megaworld, as well as a makeover of Ali Mall,[ when? ] Harrison Plaza changed very little, and the environment around it became "quite unpleasant as well with urban decay, squalor, and disorder". [9]

In June 2016, it was reported that SM Prime Holdings was planning to invest ₱39.44 billion to redevelop the mall and put up business process outsourcing offices and residential towers in the Harrison Plaza complex. The firm is partnering with the city government of Manila, which has an economic interest in the redevelopment project. [10]

In April 2018, SM Prime Holdings finalized a deal to buy out the Martel family from its contract with the City of Manila to redevelop and manage Harrison Plaza. [3] Since the shopping center was in need of redevelopment and lagged behind other malls in the metro, SM Prime Holdings plans to build a new shopping center with a residential condominium above it. [3] The Martel family's contract for the mall would expire by 2020 or 2022. [3]

Closure and sale to SM

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Harrison Plaza on January 1, 2020

On November 14, 2019, the Martels gave notice to the mall's tenants that the mall would cease its operations on December 31, 2019, with the family giving them time to clear out the area until January 31, 2020. [2] [1]

After the deadline, the property was demolished in October 2021 [11] in preparation for the construction of SM City Harrison, a "massive project" of SM Prime Holdings, reportedly a condominium building complex with a shopping mall similar to The Podium. [8]

Tenants

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Harrison Plaza in 2015

At its peak, Harrison Plaza housed 180 stores, eateries, service outlets, four movie houses, and a supermarket. [7] It also had a jai alai fronton before the sport was banned by the Philippine government, and the fronton was subsequently replaced by an outlet of SM Hypermarket. [2]

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