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Metrowalk is a small but major commercial hub in

Pasig Pasig, officially the City of Pasig (), is a highly-urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 803,159 people. It is located along the eastern border of Metro Mani ...

in the

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. It is located on a parcel of land at the junction of Ortigas and

Meralco Avenue Meralco Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare in Ortigas Center in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It links Ortigas Avenue in the north and Shaw Boulevard in the south and borders the western edge of Valle Verde in Ugong, Pasig, Ugong. It is n ...

s in the

Ortigas Center Ortigas Center (also known as the Ortigas Central Business District or Ortigas CBD) is a central business district located within the joint boundaries of Pasig, Mandaluyong and Quezon City, within Metro Manila in the Philippines. With an area o ...

central business district of the metro. It occupies a large part of the Payanig sa Pasig property that is claimed by numerous parties as a result of its 1986 sequestration by the

Presidential Commission on Good Government The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is a quasi-judicial government agency of the Philippines whose primary mandate is to recover the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by Ferdinand Marcos, his immediate family, relatives, subordi ...

(PCGG) as part of the Ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family.

Payanig sa Pasig land dispute

Metrowalk occupies a large part of the Payanig sa Pasig property that is claimed by numerous parties as a result of its 1986 sequestration by the

(PCGG) as part of the Ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family. Ortigas & Company, Ltd. Partnership (OCLP) has disputed the PCGG's sequestration, claiming that then-president

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, and Kleptocracy, kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled the c ...

had forced them to sell the property against their will in 1968. On June 19, 2007, then-Governor of Ilocos Norte now a President

Bongbong Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. (, , ; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the initials BBM or PBBM, is a Filipino politician who has served as the 17th president of the Philippines since 2022. He is the second child ...

filed a motion to intervene in the OCLP v. PCGG case (Civil Case Number 0093) at the Sandinganbayan, the Philippines’ anti-graft court, and human rights victims from the period of

Martial Law under Ferdinand Marcos At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Part ...

have filed a suit noting that properties of the Marcoses should be made part of court-ordered reparations for the Marcos dictatorship's human rights victims. The PCGG considers the Payanig sa Pasig property the "crown jewel" among the properties sequestered from the Marcoses' ill-gotten wealth, estimating its minimum value to be about in March 2015.

Other notable news coverage

2006 Leonardo Umale murder

The area made national news when its ownership was noted as a possible motive for the murder of a businessman, Leonardo Umale in 2006.

2007 illegal casino allegations

In January 2007, the leisure hub was subject to media scrutiny when an alleged illegal casino was said to be operating within the area limits. This was then denied by former Pasig mayor Vicente Eusebio. However, ''The Manila Times'' noted that the mayor's comment was an official statement.

Redevelopment

In 2022, President

led the groundbreaking of two

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stations in the property. By 2024,

Chavit Singson Luis Crisologo "Chavit" Singson (; born June 21, 1941) is a Filipino businessman and politician who last served as the mayor of Narvacan, Ilocos Sur from 2019 to 2022. He was also the governor of the province of Ilocos Sur, starting from 1972 ...

, the owner of the company that owns Metrowalk, is eyeing a total redevelopment of the area with the help of Korean investors. The property will reportedly be demolished to give way to the creation of the Ortigas subway station. Singson also agreed with the

Philippine Basketball Association The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines, composed of twelve company-branded Franchising, franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia ...

for it to build its proposed own arena at Metrowalk.

References

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