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.

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• (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.

• Manila Standard Today
• Inquirer.net
• Manila Bulletin
• Manila Times

• Wikipedia

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.