Chino Roces Avenue

Chino Roces Avenue
Pasong Tamo Street
	Chino Roces Avenue northbound towards Don Bosco
Namesake	Joaquin "Chino" Roces
Type	Tertiary road
Maintained by	Department of Public Works and Highways - Metro Manila 2nd District Engineering Office
Length	5.80 km (3.60 mi); Includes 2.12 km (1.32 mi) extension south of EDSA
Location	Makati and Taguig
North end	J.P. Rizal Avenue in Tejeros and Olympia, Makati
Major; junctions	Kalayaan Avenue; Pablo Ocampo Street Extension; N190 (Gil Puyat Avenue); Dela Rosa Street; Arnaiz Avenue; AH 26 (N1) (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue)
South end	Lawton Avenue in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig

Chino Roces Avenue, formerly known as (and still commonly referred to as) Pasong Tamo, is a prominent north–south road in the cities of Makati and Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines It runs for 5.80 kilometers (3.60 miles) from Olympia and Tejeros to Fort Bonifacio.^[1] The avenue is named after Joaquin "Chino" Roces, journalist, founder of The Manila Times and Associated Broadcasting Company (now TV5), and an opposition figure during the Marcos administration. The fact that the avenue is the location of various media establishments influenced the renaming.^[2]^[3]

The northern end of Chino Roces Avenue is at the intersection with J.P. Rizal Avenue. It heads southwesterly across the residential and commercial barangays of Olympia, Tejeros, Santa Cruz, and La Paz. After the intersection with Bagtikan Street in San Antonio, Chino Roces bends to the south, becoming more commercial as it approaches Gil Puyat Avenue. The road continues southwards through the western limits of the Makati Central Business District, bending slightly southwesterly between Rufino and Don Bosco Streets. The avenue then becomes mixed commercial and industrial as it continues on a straight route to EDSA.

South of EDSA via a narrow channel under the Magallanes Interchange, Chino Roces, as its extension, serves as a frontage road to South Luzon Expressway. It is lined with light industries and car dealerships on both sides, as well as a few factory outlets, in an area also known as Kayamanan or Kayamanan-C.^[4] The road ends at Lawton Avenue within Fort Bonifacio in Taguig, near Gate 3 Plaza. Chino Roces has a short extension north of J.P. Rizal Avenue into Barangay Carmona as A.P. Reyes Avenue. The part of Chino Roces from Rufino Street to Arnaiz Avenue is home to several Japanese restaurants and shops, earning it the nickname "Little Tokyo".^[5]

The avenue originated as a short street in what was historically known as Malolos Subdivision, a residential subdivision in Tejeros and Olympia.^[6] As suggested by surrounding streets in such area named similar to places that played significant roles during the Philippine Revolution (e.g. Malolos, Barasoain, Novaliches, Binakod, Zapote), Pasong Tamo may be named after a barrio in Caloocan (now a barangay in the present-day Quezon City) where the Battle of Pasong Tamo occurred. Its name also comes from an indigenous plant called tamo that once grew there abundantly.^[7] It was then extended towards Vito Cruz Street in the 1940s and later towards southern Makati circa 1950s,^[7] making it a major road.^[4]^[8]^[9]

Landmarks[]

Alphaland Southgate Mall on EDSA and Chino Roces Avenue

Plaza Fair (Makati Square "Formerly Makati Cinema Square")

Laureano Di trevi by Vista Residences
Avida Towers San Lorenzo
Alphaland Southgate Mall and Tower
Alegria Building
Cityland Pasong Tamo Tower
CW Home Depot
Directories Philippines Corporation (publisher of the Philippine Yellow Pages)
Don Bosco Technical Institute, Makati
DPI XL Studios
Ecoplaza Building
Eurotel Makati
Exportbank Plaza
Green Sun
Kingswood Towers
Little Tokyo
Laureano De Trevi Towers
Makati Hope Christian School
Makati Central Square (formerly Makati Cinema Square)
Mantrade
Mazda Makati
National Nutrition Council Nutrition Building
Oriental Garden Condominium
Philippine Daily Inquirer Building
San Lorenzo Place
Shopwise Makati
The Oriental Place
SM Savemore Pasong Tamo
The Beacon – Roces Tower
WalterMart Makati
Wilcon Depot IT Hub

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Metro Manila 2nd". Department of Public Works and Highways. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
^ "A resolution renaming Pasong Tamo Street" (PDF). Makati City Government. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
^ "Evolution of Chino Roces". Inquirer.net. March 30, 2019. Retrieved February 26, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Map : Makati, Philippines 1968, Map of municipality of Makati, Province of Rizal, Philippines (Map). 1:10000. Antique Vintage Reproduction. 1968. Retrieved February 26, 2022.
^ The best of Little Tokyo Archived October 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine published by Philippine Daily Inquirer; accessed October 11, 2013.
^ Map of Manila and Suburbs (Map). 1:20,000. The Chief of Engineers, Washington, D.C. 1943. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Castro, Alex (September 12, 2017). "These Photos of Makati From the Past Will Amaze You". Spot.ph. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
^ "Vertical view of Nielson Field in Makati area of southern Manila". PacificWrecks. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
^ Manila City Plan (Map). 1943. Retrieved March 5, 2022.