The Rockwell Center is an upscale mixed-use 15.5-hectare project in Makati City, Philippines. It is a project of the Rockwell Land Corporation (established 1995), which is owned by the influential Lopez family. It sits on the site of a former thermal plant, closed in 1994, which was operated by Lopez-owned Meralco (the project is named for James Chapman Rockwell, the first president of Meralco). Construction began in 1998. Its centerpiece Powerplant Mall opened in December 2000. Makati City is one of the most important cities in the Philippines in terms of finance and commerce. ... The Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company (PSE: MER and MERB ), also known through acronym as MERALCO, is metropolitan Manilas only power distributor. ...
Features of the Rockwell Center include high-rise office buildings, condominiums, a school, and a shopping mall. Among the plans for the area is the Lopez Centre, proposed to have a height of over 1000 feet, which would make it the country's tallest building.
Environmentalists, toxicologists and some members of the DENR committee convened to evaluate Rockwells application for an ECC say that the manner in which the wastes were stored is not safe and that Rockwell did not provide adequate safeguards to ensure that the PCBs would not leak.
Morereover, before Rockwell was allowed to encapsulate the contaminated soil and liquids, these sat relatively exposed inside the Meralco warehouse in San Joaquin, the soil in a huge heap and the liquids in drums.
These included Rockwell's failure to submit a geological hazard test before implementing the project, conduct a survey in the host barangay to at least list down their concerns and set up a guarantee fund for future possible damages.
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