Ayala Avenue#Ayala Triangle

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Ayala Avenue's segment from the present-day Gil Puyat (Buendia) Avenue to Makati Avenue used to be the primary runway of the Nielson Airport, which was inaugurated in 1937 and was one of the first airports built in Luzon, while its extension occupies a segment of an old road that connected the Santa Ana Park and McKinley–Pasay Road.{{cite web| url=https://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/nielson/1944/manila-terrain-p53-neilson.html| title=Vertical view of Nielson Field in Makati area of southern Manila|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=PacificWrecks}}{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/41568601024|title=Neilson Airport under construction, now Ayala Triangle, Makati, Manila, Philippines, March 20, 1937|website=Flickr|access-date= June 9, 2020}}{{cite map|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/elmer_ng_pateros/2187635418|title=A cadastral map of the original Ayala purchase depicts the total 2,986-hectare Makati area.|first=Elmer|last=Nocheseda|date=January 11, 2008|website=Flickr|access-date=November 12, 2021}} The airport was destroyed during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines on December 10, 1941, and resumed operations after the end of World War II in 1947. The airport closed in 1948, and its permanent facilities were passed on to the owner of the land, Ayala y Compañía. The runways were then converted into roads as part of Ayala's plan to build a new business district in the area.{{cite web|url=https://www.theurbanroamer.com/story-of-ayala-triangle-nielson-field/|title=The Story of Ayala Triangle: Beginnings as Nielson Field|date=September 7, 2015|access-date=November 12, 2021|website=The Urban Roamer}} The modern avenue was completed in the mid-1950s,{{cite web|url=https://www.tatlerasia.com/power-purpose/wealth/the-history-of-makati-city-the-countrys-major-financial-hub|title=The History of Makati City: The Country's Major Financial Hub|first= Lisa|last=Nakpil|date=June 10, 2022|accessdate=February 14, 2023|publisher=Tatler Asia}} eventually connecting it to Highway 54 (now EDSA).{{cite book |title=Southeast Asia Over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict R. O'G. Anderson |last=O'Gorman Anderson |first=Benedict Richard |pages=291–294 |year=2003 |publisher=SEAP Publications |isbn=0877277354 }}

In 1978, Ayala Avenue was involved in the feasibility study conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency for the proposed the Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) of Manila's arterial road network. The construction of a flyover along Ayala Avenue, crossing Buendia Avenue and Malugay Street, was also proposed but was never realized. However, the widening of the avenue's segment north of Malugay and the addition of a new segment between Kamagong Street and Metropolitan Avenue, linking it to South Avenue, were materialized.{{Cite web |title=Feasibility Study on C-3 and R-4 and Related Roads Project|date=March 1978|publisher=Japan International Cooperation Agency & Department of Public Works and Highways|url=https://openjicareport.jica.go.jp/pdf/10457760.pdf|accessdate=February 20, 2025}} The extension north of Buendia once became part of C-3.{{Cite map |title = Metro Manila Street Guide |edition = 2nd|publisher = Philippine Map Co., Inc. }}{{cite web|url=https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/latest-alignment-of-all-radial-and-circumferential-roads-in-metro-manila/|title=Latest alignment of all radial and circumferential roads in Metro Manila|website=Freedom of Information Philippines|publisher=Department of Public Works and Highways|accessdate=April 3, 2024}} In 1998, a flyover was built for left turners onto EDSA northbound.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dpwh.gov.ph/dpwh/gis|title=Road and Bridge Inventory|website=Department of Public Works and Highways|access-date=November 12, 2021}}

{{See also|Cycling in the Philippines#COVID-19 pandemic}}

File:Ayala Avenue, westbound (Makati; 01-31-2021).jpg lane, while the outermost lane is designated as a bicycle lane.]]

In 2020, in response to the growing popularity of bicycle commuting and ownership amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Makati Central Estate Association (MaCEA) and Ayala Land, through its Make it Makati campaign, designated {{Convert|3|m|ft|sp=us|adj=mid|-wide}} bicycle lanes along Ayala Avenue from Gil Puyat Avenue to EDSA, protected by bollards and exclusive to non-motorized bicycles and scooters. Bicycle boxes were also added to intersections to allow left turns. The lanes underwent a trial run on August 7, 2020, and were completed on September 7, 2020. Following this, designated stops for public transport services were also moved to the middle lane of the road.{{Cite web |title=Bike Lanes at Ayala Avenue – MACEA |url=https://macea.com.ph/2021/05/10/bike-lanes-at-ayala-avenue/ |date=May 10, 2022 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |language=en-US}}

On February 10, 2023, MaCEA and Ayala Land announced plans to replace the Ayala Avenue bicycle lanes with sharrows effective February 15.{{Cite web |date=February 10, 2023 |title=Advisory: Heads up, Makatizens! Starting February 15, 2023 (Wednesday), the Ayala Avenue bike lanes will be changed to sharrows or shared lanes to accommodate both bikers along with the increasing number of commuters riding Public Utility Vehicles (PUVs) and help improve traffic flow in the city. |url=https://www.facebook.com/makeitmakati/posts/pfbid06hMJfP6ULafY1TRCZd6JWwYw6beYAzVMrTrs73gxywH765Rn5kVEMF1YSAfSaM47l |website=Facebook |page=Make It Makati}} Despite the backlash from cycling groups, authorities proceeded with the changes.{{Cite web |date=February 11, 2023 |title=OFFICIAL ADVISORY: We have read your comments on the advisory about the conversion of Ayala Avenue bike lanes to sharrows... |url=https://www.facebook.com/makeitmakati/posts/pfbid02dF4u3T6gtFD2RkseoADAUgRVcZfLiwMNHzhdij4AkitmtGppdDrBimSkUw7pKxdBl |website=Facebook |page=Make It Makati}}{{Cite news |last=Abad |first=Michelle |date=February 15, 2023 |title=Conversion of Ayala Avenue bike lanes to 'shared' lanes deferred |work=Rappler |url=https://www.rappler.com/nation/metro-manila/conversion-ayala-avenue-bike-lanes-shared-lanes-deferred-march-6-2023/ |access-date=February 16, 2023}} On February 12, cycling groups opposed to the scheme organized a protest bike ride along Ayala Avenue. In response, authorities deferred the implementation of the sharrows scheme to March 6 to gather feedback and engage in dialogue with the cycling community.{{Cite news |last=de Santos |first=Jonathan |date=February 12, 2023 |title=Bikers, commuters: Removal of 'gold standard' Ayala bike lanes puts many at risk |work=The Philippine Star |url=https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/02/12/2244421/bikers-commuters-removal-gold-standard-ayala-bike-lanes-puts-many-risk |access-date=February 16, 2023}}{{Cite web |last=Rita |first=Joviland |date=February 13, 2023 |title=Bike lanes on Ayala Avenue, Makati to become shared lanes starting Feb. 15 |url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/metro/860589/bike-lanes-on-ayala-avenue-makati-to-become-shared-lanes-starting-feb-15/story/ |access-date=February 16, 2023 |website=GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs}}{{Cite news |last=Mangaluz |first=Jean |date=February 14, 2023 |title=Ayala Avenue bike lane conversion moved to March 6 after protest |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1729913/ayala-ave-bike-lane-conversion-deferred-to-march-6-following-protests-2 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer}}{{Cite news |last=Abad |first=Michelle |date=February 15, 2023 |title=Conversion of Ayala Avenue bike lanes to 'shared' lanes deferred |work=Rappler |url=https://www.rappler.com/nation/metro-manila/conversion-ayala-avenue-bike-lanes-shared-lanes-deferred-march-6-2023/ |access-date=February 16, 2023}}

{{main|Ayala Center}}

The Ayala Center, which comprises eight distinct shopping centers, is partially located on Ayala Avenue, specifically the Glorietta complex (including Rustan's), 6750 Ayala Avenue which once hosted the local office of Microsoft, Makati Shangri-La Hotel and One Ayala.

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{{see also|Ayala Triangle Gardens}}

The Ayala Triangle is a sub-district of the Makati Central Business District, comprising the parcel of land between Ayala Avenue, Makati Avenue and Paseo de Roxas and the buildings on those streets. Ayala Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates, in addition to many multinational companies, banks and other major businesses, are located within the triangle. A few upscale boutiques, restaurants and a park called Ayala Triangle Gardens are also located in the area.

{{main|PBCom Tower}}

PBCom Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the Philippines, is located at Ayala Avenue and V.A. Rufino Street. It serves as the headquarters of the Philippine Bank of Communications. It was the tallest building in the Philippines from 2000 to 2017.

Apartment Ridge is a complex of apartment and condominium buildings along Makati and Ayala Avenues outside Urdaneta Village. The Peninsula Manila, Makati Tuscany, Discovery Primea, The Estate Makati, Ritz Towers, Pacific Plaza Condominium, Twin Towers, and Urdaneta Apartments are located in this area.

• Makati City Police Station
• Makati City Fire Station

Both have relocated to Gil Puyat Avenue, also in Barangay San Antonio, in 2024.{{cite news|url=https://www.makati.gov.ph/content/news/110911|title=Mayor Abby Binay leads inauguration of new central police, fire stations|date=July 1, 2024|accessdate=January 26, 2025|website=Makati City Portal}} However, these old facilities along Ayala Avenue remain intact as of January 2025.

File:Ayala Avenue (Makati; 04-15-2022).jpg, The Enterprise Tower, Ayala Tower One, Makati Stock Exchange) along Ayala Avenue past its intersection with Makati Avenue]]

Ayala Avenue is home to many other landmark buildings, which house many large Philippine businesses including:

• Alphaland Makati Place
• Alveo Financial Tower
• Ayala North Exchange
• Ayala Avenue Office Tower (former headquarters of Procter & Gamble Philippines, Inc.)
• Ayala Tower One (headquarters of the Ayala Corporation and home to the Philippine Stock Exchange's Makati trading floor)
• Bank of Makati Building (headquarters of Bank of Makati)
• Bank of the Philippine Islands headquarters (under reconstruction)
• Cocolife Building
• Convergys Philippines Services Center
• The Enterprise Center neoclassical twin towers
• G.T. International Tower
• Insular Life Building (old headquarters of Insular Life)
• KMPG Center
• LKG Tower
• L. V. Locsin Building
• Makati Sky Plaza
• Multinational Bancorporation Centre
• NEX Tower
• The Peninsula Manila
• PeopleSupport Center
• PLDT Tower (headquarters of PLDT, Inc.)
• PNB Makati Center (Allied Bank Center; former headquarters of Allied Bank)
• RCBC Plaza (headquarters of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation)
• Robinsons Summit Center
• Rufino Plaza (headquarters of the Rufino Family)
• Security Bank Center (headquarters of the Security Bank Corporation)
• Smart Tower (headquarters of Smart Communications)
• SSS Makati Building (former headquarters of Union Bank of the Philippines, Inc.)
• STI Holdings Center
• Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. (SGV) Building
• Vicente Madrigal Building

• The monuments of Benigno Aquino Jr. and Gabriela Silang
• Pedestrian underpasses at Parkway Drive (Glorietta), Legazpi, Paseo de Roxas, V.A. Rufino and Salcedo/H.V. Dela Costa intersections
• Buendia Freedom Park
• Philippine Dental Association Building

{{see also|Car-free days in the Philippines}}

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Since September 2023, sections of Ayala Avenue from Salcedo Street and H.V. Dela Costa Street to West Street and Fonda Street, along with portions of Paseo de Roxas and Makati Avenue within the vicinity of the Ayala Triangle Gardens, are closed to traffic every Sunday from 6:00 am to 10:00 am PHT. Branded as Car-Free Sundays, the car-free day initiative was launched by Ayala Land and the Makati City Government to promote cycling, jogging, and other recreational activities in a safer and more pedestrian-friendly environment.{{Cite web |date=September 18, 2024 |title=Inspiring Active Movement in a Car-Free Street Celebrating One Year of Car Free Sundays at Ayala Avenue: 09.15.2024 |url=https://www.ayalaland.com.ph/news/inspiring-active-movement-in-a-car-free-street-celebrating-one-year-of-car-free-sundays-at-ayala-avenue-09-15-2024/ |access-date=January 12, 2025 |website=Ayala Land}}{{Cite news |last=Adel |first=Rosette |date=September 10, 2023 |title=Ayala Avenue kicks off month-long ‘car-free’ Sunday mornings |url=https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/09/10/2295288/ayala-avenue-kicks-month-long-car-free-sunday-mornings |access-date=January 12, 2025 |work=The Philippine Star}}

Ayala Avenue in Makati has hosted significant New Year's Eve celebrations, beginning with the grand-scale street party to welcome the year 2000 and the new millenium. After a hiatus, the tradition resumed since the countdown to 2024.{{cite news|url=https://mb.com.ph/2023/12/23/ayala-avenue-makati-brings-back-the-biggest-new-year-s-eve-countdown-to-ring-in-2024-1|title=Ayala Avenue Makati brings back the biggest New Year’s eve countdown to ring in 2024|author=MB Lifestyle|website=Manila Bulletin|date=December 23, 2023|accessdate=January 25, 2025}}{{cite news|url=https://plus.inquirer.net/property/makati-rings-in-2025-with-a-radiant-new-years-eve-countdown/|title=Makati rings in 2025 with a radiant New Year’s Eve countdown|first=Amy|last=Remo|website=Inquirer Plus|date=December 28, 2024|accessdate=January 25, 2025}}

File:Eveliojavierprotest.jpg that helped in the start of the People Power Revolution]]

Ayala Avenue has been a significant venue for demonstrations in the Philippines. Following the assassination of Ninoy Aquino in 1983, it became a focal point for protests against President Ferdinand Marcos, with office workers showing support by throwing yellow confetti torn from Yellow Pages of the PLDT directories, the color which had become associated with Aquino, from buildings above.{{Cite web |title=A History of the Philippine Political Protest |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/edsa/the-ph-protest/ |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |language=en-US}}

From August 2000 to January 2001, Ayala Avenue became the focal point for protests once again, this time against President Joseph Estrada, who later resigned upon being deposed during the Second EDSA Revolution.{{cite book |title=Southeast Asia Over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict R. O'G. Anderson |last=O'Gorman Anderson |first=Benedict Richard |pages=291–294 |year=2003 |publisher=SEAP Publications |isbn=0877277354 }} Protests continued to Estrada's successor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, with notable gatherings on July 13, 2005, demanding her resignation of Arroyo amid allegations of electoral fraud that led to her re-election in 2004,{{cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/7/13/thousands-rally-against-arroyo|title=Thousands rally against Arroyo|website=Al Jazeera|date=July 13, 2005|accessdate=January 25, 2025}} and in February 2008 against her administration.{{cite news|url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/80727/thousands-assemble-for-anti-arroyo-rally-in-makati/story/|title=Thousands assemble for anti-Arroyo rally in Makati|date=February 15, 2008|accessdate=January 25, 2025|website=GMANews.TV}}

On September 8, 2023, climate activists held a protest in front of the Ninoy Aquino Monument at the intersection of Ayala Avenue and Paseo de Roxas to urge, notably, G20 world leaders to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.{{cite news|url=https://manilastandard.net/?p=314368592|title=Anti-debt, climate change rally|publisher=Manila Standard|date=September 8, 2023|accessdate=January 25, 2025}} On June 26, 2024, members of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development held a protest calling for a halt to debt-related policies.{{cite news|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/06/26/photos/anti-debt/1953420|title=Anti-Debt|website=The Manila Times|date=June 25, 2024|accessdate=January 25, 2025}} The August Twenty-One Movement (ATOM), which was founded by Agapito Aquino in response to his brother Ninoy's assassination, also holds their Run/Ride On Against Revision (ROAR) initiative on the avenue every third (or fourth) Sunday of the month, coinciding with the Car-Free Sundays.{{cite news|url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/15/atom-holds-run-ride-on-against-revision-of-history-in-makati-city-1605|title=ATOM holds 'Run/Ride On Against Revision of History' in Makati City|date=September 15, 2024|accessdate=January 26, 2025|work=ABS-CBN News|first=Jessie|last=Cruzat}}{{cite news|url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/1/26/group-speaks-out-against-exclusion-of-heroes-from-new-polymer-bills-1554|title=Group runs in protest of heroes' exclusion from new polymer bills

|date=January 26, 2025|accessdate=January 26, 2025|work=ABS-CBN News|first=Bea|last=Cuadra}}

File:Leni-Kiko Miting de Avance at Ayala Avenue, Makati (May 2022).jpg miting de avance on Ayala Avenue on May 7, 2022]]

On May 7, 2022, Ayala Avenue became the site of Vice President Leni Robredo's final campaign rally (miting de avance) for her 2022 presidential campaign, attended by approximately 780,000 people.{{cite news |date=May 7, 2022 |title=LIVE UPDATES: Robredo-Pangilinan miting de avance – 2022 Philippine elections |work=Rappler |url=https://www.rappler.com/nation/elections/updates-robredo-pangilinan-miting-de-avance-may-2022/?next=2 |access-date=May 7, 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Star-studded miting de avance caps Robredo's campaign with 780,000-strong crowd in Makati |url=https://mb.com.ph/2022/05/08/star-studded-miting-de-avance-caps-robredos-campaign-with-780000-strong-crowd-in-makati/ |access-date=2022-05-07 |website=Manila Bulletin |language=en-US}}

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