SEVEN months ago on April 12, 2014, I wrote a column entitled “Honoring J. R. McMicking – Visionary Builder of Makati.” The advocacy of the article was to duly honor Joseph R. “Joe” McMicking, the acknowledged Brains of Ayala Corporation and the Visionary who built the present-day Makati after the great devastation of World War II.

Without Joe McMicking, there won’t be the Makati we know today with all the office and residential condominium buildings, five-star hotels like Shangri-La, Peninsula, Mandarin (recently closed) and Intercon, and excellent shopping malls like Greenbelt and Glorietta located in the Central Business District (CBD). There would probably be No 25-Year Master Plan that guided the development of Makati from the 1950s to 1970s.

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