Alabang
{{Short description|Barangay in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines}}
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|subdivision_name1 = National Capital Region
|subdivision_type2 = City
|subdivision_name2 = Muntinlupa
|subdivision_type3 = District
|subdivision_name3 = 2nd district of Muntinlupa
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|government_type = Barangay
|leader_title = Barangay Captain
|leader_name = Christine May Abas-Ding
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|established_title = Established
|established_date = 1980
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|timezone = PST
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|coordinates = {{coord|14|25|6.11|N|121|2|18.6|E|region:PH|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code_type = Postal Code
|postal_code = 1799, 1781 (Filinvest City)
|area_code = 02
|blank_name = Range
|blank_info = Marikina Valley Fault Ridge
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Alabang ({{IPA|tl|alaˈbɐŋ|}}) is a barangay in Muntinlupa, Philippines. At one time, the area was a farming district and has since grown from a village to a major commercial center, including Filinvest City, Madrigal Business Park, and a transportation hub. It has an area of {{convert|8.064|sqkm|sp=us}}.{{cite web | url=https://www.muntinlupacity.gov.ph/?page_id=1979| title=Brgy. Alabang | website=City Government of Muntinlupa | access-date=May 28, 2022}} A large portion of Ayala Alabang came from Barangay Alabang.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1982-03-25 |title=B.P. Blg. 219: An Act Creating the Barangay New Alabang Village in the Municipality of Muntinlupa, Metro Manila |url=https://thecorpusjuris.com/legislative/batas-pambansa/bp-blg-219.php |access-date=2024-10-18 |website= |language=en}} It was the location of the Alabang Stock Farm.{{Cite news|url=https://business.inquirer.net/94721/44-hectare-alabang-sprawl-home-to-global-business-community|title=44-hectare Alabang sprawl home to global business community|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer}}
Etymology
File:Philippine Island - Alabang - NARA - 68155808.jpg
Alabang was formerly the cattle grazing pastures of the hacienda of the friars of Muntinlupa.{{cite journal |author= Oficina de Agricultura, Departamento de lo Interior, Gobierno de Las Islas Filipinas|title=Dehesa de Alabang |journal=Revista agrícola de Filipinas |date=1908 |volume=1 |page=59 |url=https://www.google.com.ph/books/edition/Revista_agr%C3%ADcola_de_Filipinas/g1MjAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1}} It is named after the Alabang River that passes through the area, labeled as "Rio de Alban" in the 1852 Coello-Morata Case Map.{{cite book |last1=Sanz |first1=Gonzalo Mateo |title=Topónimos y apellidos ancestrales de los países de la hispanidad |date=2020 |publisher=Jolube Consultor Botánico y Editor |isbn=9788412165623 |page=27}}
Economy
=Filinvest City=
{{Main|Filinvest City}}
Barangay Alabang, part of the second district of Muntinlupa, has undergone tremendous growth mainly due to a development boom in the late 1990s. The development of high-end large scale commercial real estate projects; the Filinvest City, changed the landscape of the Alabang where it was once vast fields of cow pasture until the late 1980s, into a district that houses new residential, business, industrial and commercial establishments.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}
=Shopping centers=
File:Festival Mall Alabang Entrance.jpg
File:Alabang Public Market, Muntinlupa, Jan 2024.jpg
Festival Alabang is a large shopping mall owned and operated by Filinvest Development Corporation located at Filinvest City in Barangay Alabang, Muntinlupa. The mall opened in the middle of May 1998, and it became Filinvest's flagship project, setting the standard for shopping centers in the south of Metro Manila. The whole Festival Alabang complex has an area of over {{convert|30|ha}}, the biggest mall in south Metro Manila (tied with Ayala Malls Manila Bay).{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}
Festival Alabang is the biggest of all five current malls in city. It is also adjacent to some of the largest malls south of Metro Manila, namely Alabang Town Center, SM Southmall, and other malls like Starmall Alabang (formerly Metropolis Star Alabang), Liana's Alabang, and Ayala Malls South Park.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}
Starmall Alabang, or formerly known as Metropolis Star Alabang is the first community shopping mall in this city and it is owned by Starmalls, Inc. There are also the South Station, Fastbyte at Northgate, Westgate Center, Commerce Center, South Supermarket The Filinvest Tent Commercial Block, and Alabang Public Market.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}
See also
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{{Commons category-inline|Alabang, Muntinlupa}}
- [http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/html/update_SOEPD/wfs_hazardmaps/3229_iv_6c_alabang_a3.html West Valley Fault in Muntinlupa - 3229 IV 6C Alabang]
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