Robinsons Galleria

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Robinsons Galleria
Location Quezon City, Philippines
Coordinates 14°35′27″N121°3′34″E / 14.59083°N 121.05944°E / 14.59083; 121.05944
Address EDSA corner Ortigas Avenue, Ortigas Center
Opening dateJanuary 12, 1990;34 years ago (1990-01-12)
DeveloperRobinsons Land
Management Robinsons Malls
Owner John Gokongwei
No. of stores and servicesOver 400 shops and restaurants
No. of anchor tenants 10
Total retail floor area 216,000 m2 (2,330,000 sq ft)
No. of floors5
Parking1000 cars
Public transit access BSicon SUBWAY.svg 3 Ortigas
BSicon BUS3.svg   E   Ortigas
Bus-logo.svg   2   Robinsons Galleria
Website robinsonsmalls.com/mall-info/robinsons-galleria-ortigas

Robinsons Galleria (also known as Robinsons Galleria Ortigas), is a mixed-use complex and shopping mall located at EDSA corner Ortigas Avenue, Quezon City, just near SM Megamall. The mall is owned by Robinsons Malls, and it is their flagship mall. [1] It is the 1st Robinsons Mall to bear the Galleria branding. It was built on January 12, 1990, with a total gross floor area of approximately 216,000 m2 (2,330,000 sq ft).

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The mall

The atrium area of the mall, photographed from the second level. Robinsons Galleria Mall Interior Atrium Quezon City.jpg
The atrium area of the mall, photographed from the second level.

Robinsons Galleria is a 5-level shopping mall and a landmark along EDSA and Ortigas Avenue with more than 400 shops, dining outlets, entertainment facilities, and service centers. [1] [2] It is located within a mixed-use complex composed of two high-rise office towers, the Galleria Corporate Center and Robinsons Equitable Tower. Three hotels are also located among the said towers, the Holiday Inn Manila Galleria and Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria, and the Galleria Regency.

A major tenant of the mall is the central passport office of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Metro Manila called DFA Consular Office NCR-Central, which is located on the first floor of the Lingkod Pinoy Center and inaugurated in September 2012. [3]

History

The mall's location was once an open land owned by the SSS in the Ortigas Central Business District. [4] In February 1986, the portion of the land facing EDSA was where participants in the People Power Revolution also protested; tanks going north to Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame were stopped at this spot. [5] In 1987, John Gokongwei bought the large portion of the land from the SSS, while the Archdiocese of Manila had partly purchased the portion of the land near the intersection. This plot today is the site of EDSA Shrine, which belongs to the Archdiocese up to date.

Construction began in mid-1988 and finished in late 1989. The mall opened in 1990, being the first mall of Robinsons Malls. [6] Since its opening, several renovations had made within the mall, expanding its area to 216,000 square meters. [4]

Incidents

Redevelopment

The mall had gone for several renovations since it opened in 1990. In 2012, the mall took its major facelift with additional GLA of around 100,000 square meters that can cater at least 50 tenants. [2] The said developments expanded the mall's GLA to what is now 216,000 square meters. [4]

The latest redevelopment had started in 2016. [13] It will be done in 2 phases with its first phase of renovation from May to October 2016 while the second phase was to start in May 2017. Aside from the major renovations within the mall, the mall veranda will host more service stores related to health and beauty. There will be an upper veranda at the 3rd floor, formerly occupying the sports loop, which will accommodate more dining choices. The mall's renovation is almost complete.

The mall's renovation will add wooden elements into the mall, a design similar to Robinsons Galleria Cebu.

An urban legend relating to the mall flourished in the 1990s, which claimed of a half-snake, half-human creature that resided in the basement of the mall and purported to be a lucky charm installed by the Gokongwei family, feeding it with unsuspecting victims from a supposed shaft from a dressing room. Among its supposed victims were actresses Alice Dixson and Rita Avila. Although the rumor is now considered absurd and dead, it was revived in 2010 after a supposed YouTube video depicting it surfaced. [14] Businesswoman Robina Gokongwei-Pe asserted in 2008 that the tale emerged from the "market competition". [15] Dixson herself dismissed the entire narrative as fake, and in 2020 she finally put the entire tale to rest through a YouTube video. [16] She had appeared in a videographic advertisement by Robinsons Galleria two years earlier, poking fun at and lampooning the extinct urban legend. [15] [17]

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