Power Plant Mall

|alt=A hallway with lanterns The five-storey shopping mall is located at Rockwell Drive corner Estrella Street in Barangay Poblacion, Makati. It is part of the Rockwell Center. It has a gross floor area of and is anchored by The Marketplace supermarket, an eight-screen Power Plant Cinema, and a mix of high-end tenants such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Hackett London, Michael Kors, DKNY, Rolex and J.Lindeberg. It also contains several dining outlets, The Fifth at Rockwell events hall, a Roman Catholic chapel called the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and three levels of basement parking. The mall also serves as the podium access to the Balmori Suites, a condominium building. It is also linked to Proscenium at Rockwell and Joya Lofts and Towers via the Proscenium–Rockwell Footbridge, an elevated pedestrian walkway. The mall can be reached from EDSA via Estrella and J. P. Rizal Avenue and from the Makati CBD via Kalayaan Avenue. The nearest MRT station is Guadalupe station on EDSA. ==History==

Power Plant Mall was built in December 2000 on the former site of the 130-megawatt Rockwell Thermal Plant owned by the Lopez-led Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company. The thermal power plant, named after the company's first president James Rockwell, operated between 1950 and December 14, 1973, when it was hit by a fire. In 1994, after protests from Makati residents against its reopening, the plant was decommissioned and subsequently converted by its owners into a modern commercial district. Construction on the shopping mall began in 1998 and was completed and opened on December 26, 2000. Beginning in 2014, Rockwell Land expanded the Power Plant Mall by adding another of additional leasable space, expanding the total retail floor area from with three additional floors, and two VIP cinema theaters. The ground and second levels (R1 & R2) of the expansion opened in December 2017, while Cinemas 7 and 8 at Level R3 opened in January 2018. It is also connected to the luxury condominium development Balmori Suites, replacing the cancelled expansion of Aruga Hotel. ==Brand expansion==

Rockwell Land Corporation is currently expanding the Power Plant Mall brand to its developments outside of Metro Manila. It plans to open Power Plant Mall Angeles within the Rockwell at Nepo Center in Angeles City by the fourth quarter of 2027. This will be followed by Power Plant Mall Bacolod within the Rockwell Center Bacolod by 2029. ==References==