Long before Mariana Zobel de Ayala had to think about tenant mixes, parking flows, lighting levels or the next big global brand to bring to the Philippines, she knew Ayala’s malls the way many Filipinos did: by the memories she made in them.
In an exclusive interview with Inquirer Property, the eighth-generation Zobel scion recalled practically growing up in Glorietta, where Glico’s was part of her childhood and where her mother was a tenant. Naturally, she spent plenty of time at her mother’s store, making the mall a familiar part of her early years.
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Today, Zobel de Ayala is looking at those complexes from a completely different vantage point. The spaces she once knew as a child are now the same spaces she studies down to the smallest details, from how people arrive and where they park to what might excite them enough to come back.FEATURED STORIES
As senior vice president and head of Leasing and Hospitality at Ayala Land Inc. (ALI), she is now helping steer the next chapter of a business built around a deceptively difficult question: What will make people continue to choose Ayala?
