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Greenhills Shopping Center is a shopping centre in the city of San Juan in the Philippines. It has over 2,000 stores, and espouses an 'indoor-outdoor' theme, with the Shopping Center having the appearance of several distinct buildings (some separated by a main road) that are all interconnected through pathways and bridges. It hosts a Roman Catholic chapel and a Muslim prayer room. The Shopping Center is bounded by Ortigas Avenue on the west, Connecticut Street on the south, Club Filipino (also known as McKinley), Eisenhower, and Annapolis streets on the north, and Missouri Street on the east. This mall faces the tip end of Wilson Street. Greenhills began in the early 1960s. Plans were drawn up to create a fully complemented first class residential community to include schools, churches and what was then the most modern concept for a shopping centre as its centrepiece. Plans for building the Greenhills Shopping Centre began in 1966 following two years of studying some of the world’s most advanced community development projects. The proposed concept for the Greenhills Shopping Center, modern in every aspect and suited to local conditions, was presented by Architect Juan Nakpil, a Filipino National Artist for architecture. The concept included a supermarket, a movie house, variety stores, a bowling alley, service shops and restaurants. The Greenhills subdivisions, which cover 197 hectares, provided a ready market for the commercial complex. ==V-mall== V-mall, formerly known as Virra Mall, underwent a 10-month renovation in 2005. Ortigas & Company Limited Partnership (OCLP) used this time period to redesign the mall. The stalls and people selling pirated CDs and DVDs are gone, replaced by stores such as Astrovision and Odyssey, which sell original audio CDs, VCDs, DVDs and selected Blu-ray titles. Ortigas officials also wanted to show class and regain its old reputation as a centre for computers. Virra Mall’s Php 500-million worth of renovations into the new V-mall was completed in December 2005. The V-mall renovation is part of a four-year plan by Ortigas and Company that began in 2002 to spruce up one of the country’s oldest shopping centres. V-mall would boost Greenhills’ reputation even as some of its rivals are trying to position themselves for economic growth. Although OCLP lost some rental income during the 10 month renovation, Joey Santos, the General Manager of the Greenhills Shopping Center, believes that the new look would draw in more customers after.〔"Manila Bulletin, April 26, 2004〕 He said they were aiming for a more spacious look to create better ambiance. The Greenhills Shopping Centre occupies 16 hectares along Ortigas Avenue, of which V-Mall accounts for 20,000 square meters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greenhills Shopping Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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