Arcovia City

The 12.3-hectare (30-acre) riverside township is designated as a cyber park and located by the Marikina River east of Ortigas Center being developed by the Megaworld Corporation.

[1] The centerpiece of the development is a triumphal arch surmounted by a bronze sculpture of a charioteer emperor accompanied by three horses called the Arco de Emperador.

[2] When completed, the township will have residential condominiums, a retail hub, LEED-registered office towers and over a thousand trees dotting the mixed-use community making it the greenest urban development by Megaworld to date.

[5] It is immediately east of the Valle Verde gated community on the west bank of the Marikina River at Ugong's border with Barangays Rosario and Caniogan.

[8][9] The idle factory was then transferred by its owner Leonardo Ty to a real estate affiliate, the Union Ajinomoto Realty Corporation, which was then renamed Woodside Greentown Properties Inc.

parcels of land, along E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue in Ugong, Pasig, as a Special Economic Zone (Information Technology Park), as Arcovia City pursuant to Republic Act No.

[3] The iconic landmark takes its name from both the sister company of the developer, Emperador brandy, and the Spanish and Filipino word for "emperor.

"[14] It stands on a traffic circle in the middle of the township and consists of bronze sculptures of a fictitious Filipino emperador on a chariot drawn by three horses perched on top of the archway.

[14] The sculptural group forms a pyramid composition and is said to symbolize power, strength, passion and self-made success of ordinary Filipinos.

Gran Via Road
Arco de Emperador
One Paseo under construction, March 2020