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| Location | Ugong Norte,Quezon City |
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| Coordinates | 14°35′27″N121°3′34″E / 14.59083°N 121.05944°E /14.59083; 121.05944 |
| Address | EDSA (C-4) cornerOrtigas Avenue,Ortigas Center |
| Opening date | January 12, 1990; 35 years ago (1990-01-12) |
| Developer | Robinsons Land |
| Management | Robinsons Malls |
| Owner | John Gokongwei |
| No. of stores and services | Over 400 shops and restaurants |
| No. ofanchor tenants | 10 |
| Total retail floor area | 216,000 m2 (2,330,000 sq ft) |
| No. of floors | 5 |
| Parking | 1000 cars |
| Public transit access |  3Ortigas E Ortigas 2 Robinsons Galleria |
| Website | robinsonsmalls |
Robinsons Galleria (also known asRobinsons Galleria Ortigas) is amixed-use complex and shopping mall located at EDSA (C-4) corner Ortigas Avenue inQuezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines. It is the flagship mall ofRobinsons Malls[1] and is the first to bear theGalleria branding. It was opened on January 12, 1990, with a total gross floor area of approximately 216,000 square meters (2,330,000 sq ft).
Robinsons Galleria is a 5-levelshopping mall and a landmark alongEDSA andOrtigas Avenue, with more than 400 shops, dining outlets, entertainment facilities, and service centers.[1][2] It is located within a mixed-use complex comprising two high-rise office towers, theGalleria Corporate Center andRobinsons Equitable Tower. There are three hotels among the said towers. These are theHoliday Inn Manila Galleria, theCrowne Plaza Manila Galleria, and the Galleria Regency.
One of the major mall tenants is the centralpassport office of theDepartment of Foreign Affairs in Metro Manila calledDFA Consular Office NCR-Central, located on the first floor of theLingkod Pinoy Center and inaugurated in September 2012.[3]
The mall's location was once open land owned by theSSS in the Ortigas Central Business District (now Ortigas Center).[4] In February 1986, the portion of the land facing EDSA was where participants in thePeople Power Revolution also protested; tanks going north toCamp Aguinaldo andCamp Crame were stopped at this spot.[5] In 1987,John Gokongwei bought a large portion of the land from the SSS, while theArchdiocese of Manila had partly purchased the portion of the land near the intersection. This plot today is the site ofEDSA 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 have been made to the mall, expanding its area to 216,000 square meters.[4]
The mall has undergone several renovations since it opened in 1990. In 2012, the mall took its major facelift with an additional GLA of around 100,000 square meters that can cater to at least 50 tenants.[2] The said developments expanded the mall's GLA to 216,000 square meters.[4]
The latest redevelopment started in 2016.[13] and will be done in 2 phases. The first renovation phase was from May to October 2016, while the second phase was to begin in May 2017. Aside from major renovations within the mall, the mall veranda will host more service stores related to health and beauty. There will be an upper veranda on the 3rd floor, formerly occupying the sports loop, that will accommodate more dining choices. The mall's renovation is almost complete.[needs update]
The mall's renovation added wooden elements, a design similar toRobinsons Galleria Cebu.
The mall, being at the corner of two busy thoroughfares, is considered a major transport hub for commuters going between Metro Manila andRizal, with five distinct public transport terminals servingjeepney routes,bus routes,UV Express routes, andPremium Point-to-Point (P2P) bus routes.[14]
The mall is also nearOrtigas station of theMRT Line 3 and the Ortigas stop of theEDSA Carousel, which both run along EDSA. The future EDSA station of theMRT Line 4 will be located near the intersection of EDSA and Ortigas within the mall's vicinity.
An urban legend relating to the mall flourished in the 1990s, which claimed that 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 to unsuspecting victims from a supposed shaft from a dressing room. Among its supposed victims were actressesAlice Dixson andRita Avila. Although the rumor was considered absurd and dead, it was revived in 2010 after a supposedYouTube video depicting it surfaced.[15] BusinesswomanRobina Gokongwei-Pe asserted in 2008 that the tale emerged from "market competition".[16] Dixson herself dismissed the entire narrative as fake, and in 2020, she finally put the tale to rest through a YouTube video.[17] She had appeared in a videographic advertisement by Robinsons Galleria two years earlier, poking fun at and lampooning the extinct urban legend.[16][18]
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