Cebu Business Park

Cebu Business Park (CBP) is a 50-hectare master-planned district in uptown Cebu City, developed by Cebu Holdings, an Ayala Land affiliate — offices, homes, sport, and leisure ground laid out under one plan rather than parceled zoning, the same mixed-use format Ayala Land built its reputation on in Makati’s central business district. Locals and ride-hailing users frequently call it “Ayala Business Park” or just “Ayala,” after the mall anchoring it, but it’s the same district under one name. The site began as the 45-hectare Club Filipino golf course, sold by the Cebu provincial government to Ayala Corporation in the late 1980s. CBP launched in 1989 with 100 commercial lots on offer, and land development wrapped by 1992. What stands today on the old fairway: corporate offices, BPO floors, banks, hotels, and a cluster of high-rise residential towers.

CBP works as a shopping, dining, and lodging district first — one of Cebu City’s principal commercial hubs, not a sightseeing stop. Its anchor is Ayala Center Cebu, the 9-hectare mall at the park’s center, which opened in November 1994 as the district’s retail draw — the office and hotel towers around it followed once that draw was established. The mall now pulls roughly 60,000 shoppers a day, with the open-air Terraces strip for dining at its edge. For most visitors, the mall, its restaurants, and the hotels around it are the reason to come.

Accommodation clusters here: Seda Hotel sits inside the district, ringed by the condo towers that give CBP its business-district skyline — Avalon Condo Cebu, 1016 Residences, Park Point Residences, The Alcoves, Sedona Parc, Solinea.

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CBP sits in uptown Cebu City next to Cebu IT Park, forming the core of the city’s commercial uptown corridor. Taxi, ride-hailing, or jeepney covers it from most points in the city; IT Park itself is a short ride away within the same district cluster.

Practical Tips for Cebu Business Park

Treat Cebu Business Park as a base for shopping, dining, and lodging in uptown Cebu City — Ayala Center Cebu and Seda Hotel anchor it. Expect mall crowds: 60,000 daily shoppers means weekends and lunch hours run tight. Pair it with neighboring Cebu IT Park for a fuller uptown day, and carry PHP cash alongside cards — not every smaller vendor around the mall takes plastic.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cebu Business Park?

A 50-hectare master-planned business and commercial district in Cebu City, developed by Cebu Holdings, an Ayala Land affiliate. It combines offices, banks, hotels, and high-rise residences around the 9-hectare Ayala Center Cebu mall, built on the former Club Filipino golf course and launched in 1989.

What is there to do in Cebu Business Park?

Ayala Center Cebu is the main draw — a large mall with the open-air Terraces dining strip, pulling around 60,000 shoppers a day. Beyond the mall, the district holds hotels such as Seda and a cluster of residential towers, with little in the way of sightseeing.

How is Cebu Business Park different from Cebu IT Park?

Both are Ayala Land master-planned districts sitting next to each other in uptown Cebu City. Cebu Business Park (50 hectares, launched 1989) is anchored by Ayala Center Cebu and rose on a former golf course. Cebu IT Park (27 hectares) is the city’s IT/BPO district, built on the old Lahug Airport site. CBP’s tenant mix still skews toward finance and corporate offices, where IT Park’s skews toward call-centre and back-office operations, though both now run BPO floors alongside retail. CBP’s landscaped walkways and green medians are a deliberate holdover from the golf-course layout rather than a later addition, part of why the district reads as more open than IT Park’s denser tower grid. December brings CBP’s best-known seasonal draw — holiday lighting displays across the open plazas that pull evening foot traffic well past normal office hours.

Economic Context

CBP’s conversion from a private golf course to a commercial district mirrors a pattern repeated across Philippine cities in the late 1980s, as Ayala Corporation exported the mixed-use master-planning model it had proven in Makati to provincial capitals with the purchasing power to support it. Cebu Holdings Inc. has kept the district under unified management since the 1992 build-out, part of why the offices, hotels and towers read as a coordinated skyline rather than piecemeal zoning. Ayala Center Cebu anchors a meaningful share of formal retail employment in the city, alongside the office-tower jobs the park was built to house — a steadier economic engine than neighboring IT Park’s BPO floors, if a less visible one.

Local Taste

The Terraces, the open-air dining strip at Ayala Center Cebu’s edge, is CBP’s answer to where to eat — Filipino chains, Cebuano restaurants and casual international dining around a plaza active from lunch through late evening, geared toward mall shoppers and office workers rather than a dedicated food crawl.

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