page_title: Gateway Mall (Quezon City)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gateway Mall (Quezon City) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City. It is one of the main commercial areas in Quezon City where Araneta Coliseum, Alimall, Gateway, farmer's Plaza, Novotel and Manhattan Garden City are located. Araneta Center is bounded by the roads of EDSA (AH26), Aurora Boulevard and P. Tuazon.
context_page_description: Gateway Mall is a shopping mall located within the Araneta City in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines. It is owned by the Araneta City, Inc., a subsidiary of the Araneta Group. The mall has 100,000 m² of total floor area and attracts over 220,000 shoppers daily.
context_section_description: Known as the "Millenium Mall" project, a planned 7-storey mall adjacent to the Araneta Coliseum in the early stages of planning, along with the "Manhattan Mall", a 200,000 m² (2,200,000 sq ft) mixed use development consisting retail and residential components (now Manhattan Gardens), as part of the Araneta Center Master Plan in the year 2000, under a ₱66.25 Billion ($1.25 Billion) budget. The Araneta Group tapped Felino Palafox of Palafox Associates and Sudhakar Thakurdesai of RTKL Associates as the main architects and urban planners of the project, along with the Deshazo Starek and Tang (now Deshazo Group), Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated and Colliers International as main consultants of the master plan. The plans for the mall contains a large part of the Araneta City, spanning from the Araneta Center–Cubao Line 2 station, around the west side of the Smart Araneta Coliseum, to Farmer's Market, up to the current Farmer's Garden and Araneta City Cyberpark. Among the plans for the development include the "Manila Tower", a 300 m (984.3 ft) planned mixed-use tower. The planned mall will have 600,000 m² (6,500,000 sq ft) of retail spaces, with plans including an additional 340,000 m² (3,700,000 sq ft) of entertainment spaces, a full scale skating rink, cineplexes, an IMAX Theater, a bowling alley, and a children and family entertainment center, aimed to have a total of 972,000 m² (10,460,000 sq ft) of overall retail space in the Araneta City. The master plan commenced with the construction of the Gateway Mall in 2002, and the Gateway Mall 2 in 2017, with future expansion plans including the Gateway Mall 3.
  The Gateway Mall, along with the New Gateway (Gateway Mall 2), the Gateway Tower the Araneta Coliseum, the Araneta Coliseum Parking Garage, the Novotel Manila Araneta City, and the Ibis Styles Hotel are situated within the Gateway Square complex, offering retail, offices, dining, leisure, lodging, and entertainment facilities, having over 3,000 parking spaces, and ensuring connectivity via sky bridges and walk paths.
caption: The Gateway Mall and The Gateway Tower (Gateway Complex), located at the left side of the Smart Araneta Coliseum, as of 2017, with the upcoming Gateway Mall 2.
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