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Makati City
The City of Makati is one of the 17 cities that make up Metro Manila, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines and one of the major financial, commercial and economic hubs in Asia...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. It is a project of the Rockwell Land Corporation (established 1995), which is owned by the influential Lopez family.
Location and vicinity
Rockwell Center was constructed on a 19.5-hectare lot previously occupied by a former thermal plant which was operated by Lopez-owned MERALCOMeralco
The Manila Electric Company , also known as MERALCO or Meralco, is the Philippines' largest distributor of electrical power.The word MERALCO, is an acronym for Manila Electric Railroad And Light COmpany, which was the company's original name from 1903 to 1919.MERALCO is the Metro Manila's only...
until the former's closure in 1994. The project of the power plant was named for James Chapman Rockwell, the first president of MERALCO. The lot is surrounded by J.P. Rizal Avenue to the north, where it faces the Pasig River
Pasig River
The Pasig River is a river in the Philippines that connects Laguna de Bay to Manila Bay. Stretching for , it is lined by Metro Manila on each side...
, Estrella Street to the east, Rockwell Drive to the south, and R. Palma Street to the west.
About
Rockwell Center began its construction in 1998. Its centerpiece, the Power Plant Mall, opened in December 2000.Features of the Rockwell Center include high-rise office buildings, condominiums, a school, and a shopping mall. Among the plans for the area is the Lopez Centre
Lopez Centre
The Lopez Centre is a proposed building that will rise at a one-hectare area at JP Rizal, Rockwell Center, Makati City. It was launched in 2008 as a mixed-use building that has 50 floors. It would be the future headquarters of several companies owned by the Lopez family. The tower is named after...
, proposed to have a height of over 1000 feet, which would make it the country's tallest building.
Tenants
Shopping Malls- Power Plant Mall
Schools
- Ateneo Graduate School of BusinessAteneo Graduate School of BusinessThe Ateneo Graduate School of Business or the AGSB is the graduate school of business of Ateneo de Manila University, a private, Roman Catholic university established by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. The school is located in the Ateneo Professional Schools Building in Rockwell Center,...
- Phinma
Office Buildings
- Amorsolo East
- Amorsolo West
- Hidalgo Place
- Lopez CentreLopez CentreThe Lopez Centre is a proposed building that will rise at a one-hectare area at JP Rizal, Rockwell Center, Makati City. It was launched in 2008 as a mixed-use building that has 50 floors. It would be the future headquarters of several companies owned by the Lopez family. The tower is named after...
(under construction) - Luna Gardens
- Nestlé Philippines HeadquartersNestléNestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
Residential buildings
- Edades Tower and Garden Villas
- Joya Lofts and Towers
- The Manansala
- The West Block
External links
- Rockwell Center official website
- Rockwell Center at Emporis.com
- Rockwell Center satellite image on Google MapsGoogle MapsGoogle Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...