SM City North EDSA
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| Location | EDSA corner North Avenue, Barangay Santo Cristo and Bagong Pag-Asa, Quezon City, Philippines |
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| Opening date | November 8, 1985 |
| Developer | SM Prime Holdings |
| Management | SM Prime Holdings |
| Owner | Henry Sy, Sr. |
| Architect | Arquitectonica |
| No. of stores and services | 800+ (including 300 dining outlets) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 36 |
| Total retail floor area | 498,000 m2 (5,360,000 sq ft) (2015) |
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| Parking | 10,000+ slots |
| Public transit access | North Avenue Station, MRT Line 3 |
| Website | www |
SM City North EDSA is a shopping mall located at the intersection of North Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Quezon City, Philippines. It is the first SM Supermall in the country and is the largest shopping mall in the Philippines, as well as the fourth-largest shopping mall in the world.
The mall is operated by SM Prime Holdings, opened on November 8, 1985. The SM City North EDSA was constructed at a challenging period in the Philippines' political history with a gross floor area of 120,000 square meters in 1985. The mall's redevelopment began with the opening of The Block in July 2006. Among the developments were a new Annex building which opened in December 2008, and Sky Garden which opened in May 2009. The Car Park Plaza transformed into a lifestyle center in 2009. SM City North EDSA, a work in progress with the renovation of the City Center, and the development of the North Link.
As of 2014, the SM Megamall in Ortigas surpassed the SM City North EDSA as the largest shopping mall in the Philippines.
SM City North EDSA was built in a 16 hectares (40 acres) land which was then a marshland in a relatively remote locationamidst a political crisis which saw interest rates to rise as high as 45 percent. The lot was previously owned by the Government Service Insurance System and was originally intended to be used to host houses for public school teachers.The mall opened on November 8, 1985. It was the first mall built by SM Prime Holdings Inc. and initially only had SM's fifth department store and first supermarket as its tenants. and at that time it had a gross floor area of 125,000 square meters.
As more tenants and entertainment venues were added, The SM City North EDSA then came to be known as the mall that institutionalized the "one-stop" shopping concept in the Philippines. It was the first to introduce "malling" as a pastime in the Philippines. A 4-level carpark, also known as the Annex 1, was constructed in February 1988; with the lower ground floor converted into an enclosed retail space. Another level was also added on its main mall. On July 28, 1989, a two-floor annex, also known as the original "Annex 2" was built providing more leasable space, a bowling alley and four additional movie houses. The main building and the annexes were expanded with a lower ground level, and the first level of The Carpark Plaza was converted into Cyberzone, a section reserved mainly for technology and gadget retail.
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