[5] Real estate company Ayala Land conceptualized Greenbelt as the Philippines's first lifestyle center with bars, posh boutiques, lush tropical greenery, a world-class museum, and an elegant chapel.

[7] Greenbelt underwent enhancements, starting with the construction of the indoor Center Mall from 1989 to 1994 and the renovation in 1994 that added wheelchair ramps.

[14] On July 25, 2023, Ayala Land filed a Petition to Remove the Presumption as Important Cultural Property designation from Greenbelt 1 before the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, arguing that alterations made to the original structure as a result of renovations over the past decades had made the building unrecognizable from its original design.

Sit-down restaurants with al fresco seats are located on the outdoor units of the ground floor facing Greenbelt Park.

The upper floors feature more dining establishments, retail, and entertainment facilities, including five cinemas and MyCinema, a private mini-theater.

Greenbelt 4's second floor hallway serves as an open air extension of the Dela Rosa Elevated Walkway connecting the latter to The Landmark Makati and beyond.

Phase 2, with 5 levels of retail space, one underground and four over ground, features the high-end department store Adora, entertainment facilities, luxury boutiques and restaurants.

The garden facing side of Greenbelt 5's ground floor is lined with sit in restaurants with al fresco seats.

The complex is also home to a colony of well-fed cats who lounge around walkways and in unoccupied al fresco cafe seats.

Built as an open-air, concrete dome in the middle of a pond, the chapel holds masses and other religious services every day.

[34] Additionally, glass sculptor Ramon Orlina contributed to the design by creating the tabernacle altar, ceiling art, the cross at one of the entrances, among others.

On October 18, 2009, between 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. PHT, heavily armed thieves overpowered the mall's security guards and broke into a Rolex watch shop in Greenbelt 5.

A suspected robber was killed by two police escorts of Taguig Mayor Sigfrido Tiñga who, incidentally, happened to be present upon the heist while the other gun-men escaped with an undetermined value of expensive watches.