As part of the community’s COVID response, safety precautions have been implemented within the MaCEA vicinity. This includes a regular sanitation for the premises done every Thursday of the week and happens from 9am to 11am. Additionally, guards are on roving duty 24-hours to ensure the safety of the people within the area. In case …
In partnership with Green Antz, MaCEA has implemented sidewalk enhancement projects along Arnaiz avenue and H.V. dela Costa Street. The project has been undergoing since June, 2020, and is expected to be finished by the end of November of the same year. It makes use Eco-bricks, the flagship product of Green Antz; a building product …
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November 2020 #LetsBikeMakati, an aptly coined hashtag for an aptly thought project. Recognizing the need for alternative ways to commute during the current pandemic, MaCEA, together with Ayala Land and Make it Makati, has launched a project as a means of providing a safe space for cyclist employees who have no other means of …
MH Canlas January 24, 2020/in News, Products/Events The Makati CBD district has always been a frequent haunt for me as an architecture enthusiast, Ayala Avenue being a literal timeline of Philippine architecture. From its humble beginnings in the 60s as a swampland turned fledgling financial district, to the world-class metropolis it currently is, the CBD has …
Makati City, PHILIPPINES, December 18, 2019 – Advancing its aspiration to strengthen its business and coverage within the Metro, Radius Telecoms, Inc. (Radius) is pleased to announce its partnership with Makati Central Estate Association (MACEA) to offer its services to all the buildings in Makati Central Business District (MCBD).With its robust pure fiber network, with end-to-end …
History. In the mid 80’s, as more and more vehicles began to choke the streets of the MCBD, complaints wre rife about the traffic situation andthe lack of on-street parking space. In 1987, then Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay decided to put the parking situation in order. He brought together the Makati City Government, Ayala Land …
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Anyone who has walked or driven along Ayala Avenue lately shouldhave noticed the new street signs on every street corner, from Apartment Ridge in the south all the way to Gil Puyat in the north. The signs make up a new wayfinding system designed to make finding one’s way in the MCBD easier for both …
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Remember those drainage inlets at the sidewalks, those ground-levelhorizontal holes that allow water to flow from the streets into underground culverts? Well, they are now a thing of the past in the MCBD. Alerted to the fact that the open inlets were serving as ingress-egress points for rodents at night, the MaCEA management immediately verified …
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Things are moving at a fast clip in the MCBD. Ever on the lookout forfacilities and machines that need improvement or replacement fromthe effects of wear and tear, we are currently undertaking renovationwork on two facilities—one, the Legazpi Underpass that bridgesthe two sides of Ayala Avenue near the carpark of the old Makati StockExchange on …
Successful organizations share two hallmarks—continuity and change. Continuity is a cherished core value of an organization with a clear vision of what it wants to be/become and a clear definition of what it should to do to turn that vision into reality. Change, on the other hand, guaranteesthat the organization is ever moving forward, in …
It was in 1995 when the Association started concretizing its then newly- hatched pedestrianization plan for the MCBD. The plan called for theconstruction of three levels of walkways— on grade, underground, and above ground—to promote a major lifestyle change for motorists, encouraging them Architect’s drawing JULY 2017 to quit taking short hopsaround the district and …
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MaCEA is moving to a new home! Soon. The vision of a new MaCEAbuilding— as gleaned in the architect’s drawing—is slowly but surely takingconcrete form, as it rises from the ground up at the southern corner of the Legazpi car park on Legazpi St., site of the Legazpi Village Sunday Market. The building is scheduled …
The space below the vehicular overpass at the corner of A. Arnaiz Ave. and Amorsolo St. has been adorned with a green wall, a veritable vertical garden that at once fights air pollution and prettifies the place. Responding with dispatch to reports of the presence of nocturnal rodents in some places, drainage inlets that used …
In an urban hub of steel, cement and glass, a patch of green is always held dear, as precious as an oasis in a desert. Three such nooks are found in the MCBD, places to repair to for quiet conversation or to read a book or to break a sweat or simply to sit in …
With the sidewalks taken care of under the Sidewalk Enhancement and the Covered Walkway Projects, the other focal point is maintenance and improvement of the district’s road network. Improvement calls for roads, constantly beaten from wear and tear, to be overlaid with asphalt to make driving smooth and easy. Asphalting of roads took on a …
Safety and security are paramount concerns in any community, and especially so in a high-profile commercial and residential center such as the Makati CBD, with an illustrious name to protect and a rich promise to deliver. With the extension to 24/7of the operating hours of the seven underpasses in the district, the need for greater …
Concern for the safety of the resident, working, and transient communities in the district prompted the Board of Governors to build two foot bridges across busy Gil Puyat Avenue on both sides of Ayala Avenue. Work on the first bridge, which connects the Columns Building with RCBC Building, was started in November and is scheduled …
Navigating the roads in the district from one point to another has become safer and more comfortable with the Sidewalk Enhancement Project under which the sidewalks in both Legazpi and Salcedo Villages, with broken, chipped or missing tiles, have been furnished with new ones. To make walking even more enticing, sidewalks along two major thoroughfares–Valero …
All seven underground passageways and the elevated walkway are equipped with ascend escalators that have, by normal wear and tear, lived way beyond their service lifespan average of 15 years. This prompted the Board of Governors to embark on a project to retire the old escalators and replace them with brand-new ones. Because of the …