Greenhills Shopping Center
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| Location | San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines |
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| Coordinates | 14°36′06.26″N 121°02′59.42″E / 14.6017389°N 121.0498389°ECoordinates: 14°36′06.26″N 121°02′59.42″E / 14.6017389°N 121.0498389°E |
| Owner | Ortigas & Company |
| No. of stores and services | 2,000+ (2014) |
Greenhills Shopping Center is a shopping mall complex in the city of San Juan in the Philippines.
In 1966, the plans for building the Greenhills Shopping Center began which followed a two-year study of community development projects in various parts around the world. The concept was presented by Filipino architect Juan Nakpil.
Greenhills was named after a green hills in the time Americans, opened in the early 1970s and was among the first shopping centers to be established in the Philippines. The shopping complex housed shopping malls, the Virra Mall and Shoppesville, the Manilabank, PCIB, Padilla, and Crossroads arcades, Greenhills Theater, Greenhills Bowling Alley, and a supermarket by the name of Unimart. All of these facilities were leased out to other companies except the theater. These companies in turn leased out space to small retailers.
In the 1980s, Greenhills was a place to hang out during the weekends, especially for the youth who often frequented the Virra Mall, to shop, watch movies, dine, visit the video arcades and to go to hobby stores at Shoppesville. Music Hall and Annapolis Live is also frequented. Later tiangges or small stalls began to sprout in Greenhills. They started out in annual bazaars during the Christmas season and eventually increased in numbers and their operations became all-year-round.
Most of the lease were expired by 2002, and most of the companies which the facilities were least to did not made any significant improvements or renovations since their lease contracts expired. Greenhills lost tenants and visitors as other shopping centers opened in other parts of Metro Manila. Ortigas & Company, initially planned to sell the complex but decided against it and started to redevelop the complex themselves. A new management team was set up in late 2001 to facilitate the complex's redevelopment.
Among the first redevelopments was the renovation of the Greenhills Theater into the Greenhills Theatre Mall. The Greenhills Theatre Mall was reopened to the public in January 27, 2002. Previously the facility which houses two theaters, has fallen to near-disuse, occasionally opening only for special event of corporations and Christian fellowships.
The Virra Mall was also renovated from January to December 2005. The former Virra Mall, built in 1975 and sculptural design done by architect José María Zaragoza, was demolished in January 2005.
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