Salcedo Park
Jaime C. Velasquez Park, commonly referred to as Salcedo Park, is a pocket park in Makati, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is one of four pockets of greenery located in the central business district within Salcedo Village in barangay Bel-Air. The park is the site of a popular weekend market called the Salcedo Community Market. It is also the main venue of the bi-annual contemporary art fair called Art in the Park. Overview Salcedo Park is a small urban community park in the Makati CBD north of Paseo de Roxas and south of Gil Puyat Avenue. It lies in a mixed residential and commercial zone between Tordesillas Street and Leviste Street to the north and south, and between Toledo Street and Velasquez Street to the east and west. It is surrounded by several residential skyscrapers, including Paseo Heights, Salcedo Place and Four Seasons towers of Megaworld Corporation and Escala Salcedo of Ayala Land subsidiary Alveo. The park was named after Col. Jaime Camacho Velasquez, a 1931 U.S. Military Academy graduate, World War II veteran, former director of Ayala Corporation and one of the chief implementors of the development of the Makati CBD. The park features a children's playground, a trellised