The Riverbanks Center is formerly Universal Textiles, Asia's largest textile mills company. It is located along A. Bonifacio Avenue and nearby Marcos Highway. It is now a center for shopping, commerce, business, and entertainment in Marikina, and in 2008, it was declared as Metro Manila's latest developing business district. Other attractions and buildings in Riverbanks Center include the Riverbanks Mall, Riverbend Hotel, Riverbanks Amphitheatre, Gazebo, Philippine Science Centrum, Floating Stage, open-air food stalls, and Stone Carabaos. At the Riverbanks Mall, you will find almost everything you need at a reasonably affordable price from supermarkets, department stores, numerous boutiques, cellphone shops, food stands, fast food chains, and many more. Also, Riverbanks Center is a home of ICT Group, one of the largest IT call centers in the Philippines. SM City Marikina is also nearby within Riverbanks Center.
Accommodations
- Marikina Hotel - Pio Del Pilar St. cor. Tangerine St., Brgy. Concepcion II, Marikina City Philippines
- La Trinidad Pension House
- Family Lodging House - 31 Liamzon St., Brgy. San Roque
- Family Lodging House - 31 Liamzon St., Brgy. San Roque
- Villa Ronar Garden Resort & Hotel - 112 Dao corner Champaca St., Marikina Heights, Marikina City
- RELC - Dormitory
- MIST-TESDA
Restaurants
- Pan De Amerikana
- Cafe Qizia - Italian Cuisine
- Tapsi ni Vivian
- Macky's Eatery
- Dalay's - Filipino Cuisine
- Cafe Kapitan
- Kusina ni Kambal
- Panciteria ni Edong's
- Kubo sa Tuazon
- Cafe Lidia
- Casa Feliz Cakes & Pastries
- Pap's Dinner
- Eriz’s Driveway bar and resto Café
- NOHMU (Resto Bar)
Transportation
Currently, elevated light rail systems run through Marikina City. The first or last station of LRT 2 is Santolan located along Marcos Highway. The station connects to Claro M. Recto Avenue in Manila.
Public transportation within the city, like in most of the urban areas in the Philippines, is facilitated mostly using inexpensive jeepneys and buses. Tricycles (motorbikes with an attached two seater carriage) are the usual transportation used for short distances, while Taxi cabs are used by the upper middle class. The roads are organized around a set of long narrow and circumferential roads that radiate and circle in and around the city.
One of the most notable attractions in Marikina is the bikeways and bike lanes along major roads and streets. This is the only city in the Philippines which has an effective bikeway.
Going to Marikina
Various land transportation ply the route going to Marikina City via bus in major roads or public jeepneys in minor roads in Metro Manila. From Cainta and Antipolo via Marikina City ( BAYAN): Take a jeepney with the sign board ( cubao), ask the driver to drop you at Mcdo Marcos highway and ride a tricycle going straight to Marikina Sports Center.
Or drop by at Fiesta Villa in A. Tuazon Marikina and ride a jeep with the sign board ( going to Marikina).
From Quezon City via Marikina City( BAYAN):
Take a ride either Fx or jeep at Gateway Cubao, ride with the signboard going to ( Parang, SSS, Kalumpang ) and they’ll drop you off to Marikina Bayan.
From Pasig City via Marikina City (BAYAN):
Take a jeepney in Pasig Palengke and ride with the signboard going to Marikina(bayan),.
From San Mateo via Marikina (BAYAN):
Take a jeepney with the signboard Marikina (BAYAN)