If you look at Ayala Ave. – G. Puyat and Makati Avenues, these three roads form a triangle similar to an airfield. It was the old Nielsen Field. (See Photo)
It was Joseph McMicking’s idea to develop Makati as the new financial center of the Philippines. Yet not a tiny street, park or even a building was named after Joseph McMicking and Roy Hall.
Neither was there anything named after Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
The Old Nielsen Field. It was Joseph McMicking’s idea to relocate Manila’s financial district to Makati in the old Nielson Field located northeast of Nichols Fields renamed Villamor Air Base.
Built by the Americans before the war, the Nielson airfield had two intersecting runways, the main runway NW/SE and a smaller runway running NE to SW, with taxiways that connected both, plus dispersal areas in the surrounding area. Prewar, used by American Far Eastern Aviation and Philippine Air Lines (PAL).
When the threat of war loomed, Nielson was taken over by the FEAF (Far East Air Force) and enlarged with hangers, workshops and facilities. FEAF’s Manila Air Depot is where new aircrafts were assembled and equipment stored.
Had the Philippines remained a U.S. Territory, Nielsen Field and Nichols Field would have been American Battlefield Monuments like the rest of the entire Philippines. 
Below: Feb. 1945 map showing Nichols and Nielson Airfields plus Fort McKinley. – From the book: “The Battle For Manila”. It also shows the progress made by advancing U.S. troops.
