Remember SM North EDSA? On the southeast side of SM North is a huge vacant lot. Well, it’s not going to stay vacant any longer!
The Ayala Malls has gone north. It’s called TriNoma for Triangle North of Makati / Manila. This is Ayala’s new commercial center is being built on a 200,000 square meter lot which is going to be bigger than Glorietta. It is billed as a 4-Level Super Regional Shopping Center with 550 retail, entertainment and food outlets, seven all-digital cinemas and 3,500-slot parking area. It scheduled for soft opening in May 2007 and grand opening in December 2007.
SM North Edsa will soon come face-to-face with Ayala’s Trinoma. It has planned a major facelift as to compete with this new mall.
Additional links about this new mall from the:
- (new!) 04/25/2007 – Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. unveiled the newest and one of the biggest shopping complexes and inter-modal transport depots in the country today, TriNoma.
This is the most exciting development in Quezon City in the next few years is the development of a large, 250-hectare mixed-use project at the North and East Triangles. Mayor Belmonte is now working with the World Bank to detail the framework plan for the project, dubbed as Triangle Park. The World Bank has called it, “the center of gravity of commercial developments in Metro Manila in the coming years.” World Bank has contracted the Japanese firm, Almec, to complete the framework plan.
The site offers the most ideal locations in terms of metropolitan access. It will be linked to at least three metro rail transit stations. Already, Ayala Land has started developments within Triangle Park by building Trinoma, a large shopping mall at the Mindanao Avenue corner of the park. The project will transform a largely institutional and partly blighted area into one of the most profitable and productive in Quezon City.
April 24, 2007 at 3:30 am
Great! Looking forward to Trinoma (couldn’t they think of a better name? Sounds like a disease). We live very near SM North Edsa and I’ve been going to it since it opened in 1985. It’s about time it’s “threatened” with competition from the Ayalas!
BTW, our grammar teachers in Grade school told us that when there’s a definite date, we should use “on” and when there’s none, we should use “in.” So “it is scheduled for soft opening IN May 2007 and grand opening IN December 2007.”
That’s all. Thanks.
April 27, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Barbara,
Thanks for the grammar check.
Yeah, trinoma does sound like a disease but I’m looking forward to it when I visit Manila this summer.
May 3, 2007 at 8:47 am
it will be better if they change the name into something like a mall. and I beleive that’s not a triangle ^^ hmmm trapezoid?
May 8, 2007 at 1:08 pm
would you know what number to call in case i want to ask how to open a stall in this new mall?
May 8, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Michelle,
You may want to contact Ayala Land at: http://www.ayalaland.com.ph/contact_us.aspx
Boy, ALI (Ayala Land, Inc.) should give me a commission on this referrals
May 22, 2007 at 8:43 am
i live a kilometer from SM north so this will be a treat for us living on this side of the city having 2 topnotch malls as neighbors.
i hope they will change the name of the mall it sounds like a ‘gamot sa rayuma’.
May 24, 2007 at 6:58 pm
marlo,
i’m not based in manila. how’s it looking now? when do you think is their soft opening? i plan to be in manila in late aug. bukas na kaya at that time? thanks.
May 25, 2007 at 10:13 pm
yes its already open. but not all stores/tenants are open yet. most parts of the mall still undergoing construction/improvement. it soft launched last may 16. grandopening is scheduled this june or maybe later this year (sept or dec).
May 26, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Trinoma in the Dark
May 29, 2007 at 5:36 am
i was here yesterday and ,yeah, it’s pretty much better than the adjacent mall.horray ayala malls!!!
May 29, 2007 at 12:48 pm
do they have starbucks there? and is it already open? thanks!=)
May 30, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Thanks, Siopao Master for the pictures:
http://siopaomaster.multiply.com/photos/album/30
June 23, 2007 at 9:46 am
I checked out Trinoma last Thursday (21 June 2007)to watch Ocean’s Thirteen as well as to check out the mall for the first time.
My date and I bought tickets for the last full show (10:30) and decided to explore the mall and have dinner first since it was only 9:30pm.
Ten minutes before the last full show, we discovered to our dismay and inconvenience that all escalators leading up to the third floor cinemas were shut down (all escalators going down were still operational).
I just don’t understand their logic of shutting down the escalators going up knowing that they still have patrons inside.
I never experienced that in any SM Mall.
Ayala Trinoma…you suck!
June 25, 2007 at 8:07 pm
They’re still probably ironing out the wrinkles. Let’s give Ayala some time to get it right.
June 29, 2007 at 5:35 am
What ever happened to the squatter colony in this area ? When I was still in Manila the squatter colony was rather massive which you could see from the MRT North EDSA station….
August 20, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Hi disgruntled visitor!
I just learned that Trinoma escalators uses a sensor-type escalators which automatically shuts off the escalator when no one in riding it. Once you step on the platform, it should automatically turns-on. Try it.
September 14, 2007 at 1:45 pm
some of the escalators out side the malls is not working every time i come to visit, most likely at the front of sm north.
January 20, 2008 at 10:52 am
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