 It was closed in 1995 by then Mayor Ismael A. Mathay, Jr. to give way for the construction of the Line 3 depot to service commuters along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA).The Line 3 consortium composed of Fil-Estate Holdings and Ayala Land decided to make the depot underground rather than a regular depot similar to Line 1 due to its commercial viability as a shopping mall.When the Line 3 began operations on December 1999, the construction of the mall was not immediately undertaken due to lack of funding.