Ayala Center Cebu

Overview

The mall’s footprint sits within Cebu Business Park, developed on the former 45-hectare Club Filipino golf course after the Cebu provincial government sold the property to Ayala Corporation in the late 1980s — not, as an earlier draft of this file claimed, on the site of the old Lahug Airport. That airport’s runway grounds, in nearby Barangay Apas/Lahug, became a separate Ayala development, Cebu IT Park (formerly Asiatown IT Park), after the airfield’s 1989 closure. Ayala Land opened the center in November 1994. The Terraces, an open-air dining tier that gave the mall a second, garden-facing identity alongside its enclosed retail core, opened later as a roughly ₱600-million expansion on October 30, 2008 — not 2013 as an earlier draft of this file had it. It functions less as a single destination than as an anchor for the wider Cebu Business Park district, which has since built up around it as a business and residential zone.

Location

Cebu Business Park, Barangay Luz, Cebu City.

Getting There

Roughly 8–10 minutes from Cebu IT Park or downtown Cebu City by taxi or Grab; around 35 minutes from Mactan-Cebu International Airport.

Practical Info

• Entry is free; parking and individual store pricing vary.
• Free Wi-Fi throughout the mall.
• On-site parking is extensive, across surface and structured levels.

What to Expect

The Terraces reads as the more distinct half of the property — an open-air, landscaped dining tier that breaks from the enclosed-mall format of the older retail core it’s attached to.

Dining at The Terraces runs from Filipino chains to international casual and fine dining, arranged around a landscaped, uncovered walkway that stays busy into the evening once the tropical heat breaks — a different rhythm from the enclosed, air-conditioned retail core, which does more of its business during the day. The mall’s food and retail mix also functions as an economic anchor for the wider Cebu Business Park district: banks, BPO offices, and hotel towers built up around it over the three decades since 1994 rely on Ayala Center for the retail and dining base that makes an office address here viable, the same role Ayala malls play in other Philippine business districts.

As with Ayala Land’s other estate developments, common areas across Cebu Business Park are maintained under the same integrated management as the mall itself — landscaping, security, and maintenance handled centrally rather than per building, which is part of why the district reads as more cohesive than a typical mixed-use grid built up piecemeal by separate owners.

Notes

The November 1994 opening date and the October 30, 2008 opening of The Terraces (~₱600 million project) are confirmed independently of the original operator research file. Ayala Center Cebu — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-07-17.

The Lahug Airport site claim was checked this pass (2026-07-28) using a fresh angle — official Ayala/Alveo Land corporate history and a Cebu Daily News historical retrospective, rather than re-running the same Wikipedia lookup — and found to be incorrect rather than merely unconfirmed: Cebu Business Park (and Ayala Center Cebu within it) was built on the former 45-hectare Club Filipino golf course, sold by the Cebu provincial government to Ayala Corporation in the late 1980s. The old Lahug Airport site became a separate, nearby Ayala development, Cebu IT Park (Asiatown IT Park), after the airfield closed in 1989. Corrected in the Overview and description above per: Cebu Business Park — Wikipedia, Remembering Lahug Airport — Cebu Daily News/Inquirer.net, and Ayala Land’s Cebu Estates — Alveo Land, all accessed 2026-07-28.