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Juan Pilgrim

July 17th, 2009, 05:46 PM

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TeslaCoil

July 17th, 2009, 05:50 PM

^^those bugs! wala nilangaw na. i wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing will be canceled.

pulsephaze22

July 18th, 2009, 09:54 AM

^^ ay, ang galing, baliktad tayo, ako masusurprise!:nuts:

DCRJ

July 19th, 2009, 04:15 AM

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Hirono-kun

July 19th, 2009, 05:46 AM

Hayz.... ayoko talaga sa design ng proyektong ito.... napaka - old-fashioned.... parang CN Tower sa Canada.......

yhuanista07

July 19th, 2009, 02:07 PM

bute pa tong sands sa singapore... may style...

http://www.feltjungle.com/images/globetripping/marina-bay-sands-night.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3404/3603782268_4367730dca.jpg

http://www.peri.net/shared/references/img/peri_marinabaysands01_lg.jpg

link:
http://www.marinabaysands.com/

--->3.5 billion US dollar pala toh...

---> sa totoo lng naiinggit aku... kelan naten makikita ung aten...

gagawa nlng tayo ng bago... ndi pa kakaiba...

--->okada pa lang nman ahh!!! wala pa ung iba... may SM pa noh!!!
at ung tower... may time pa nman para baguhin un eh...
:cheers::cheers::cheers:

Hirono-kun

July 19th, 2009, 03:00 PM

JulZ

July 19th, 2009, 03:41 PM

DCRJ

July 19th, 2009, 04:30 PM

PhilUk19

July 20th, 2009, 12:30 AM

:bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash:This shows how far the Phil is behind!! its so frustrating why dont they get their act together!!!The potential is there beautify the country by removing litter and squatters then you have billions of dollars tourism potential! the politicians are blind!! Manila needs to get itself seen on the international stage for iconic modern clean surroundings and everything!! come on filipinos pull yourselves together~!!:bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash:

DCRJ

July 20th, 2009, 01:32 AM

“Las Vegas Sands Corporation is excited and ready to join Singapore on a historic journey. As a catalyst for the economic future of Singapore and a launch pad for its tourism industry, Marina Bay Sands™ will help Singapore solidify its standing among the world’s greatest destinations.” – Sheldon G. Adelson, Chairman and CEO, Las Vegas Sands Corp

http://www.marinabaysands.com/thevision.html

that's Pagcor's chief Genuino's statement, Pagcor city will serve as catalyst for econmic growth, I always hear Genuino say that 'catalyst' line whenever he's being interviewed...and now the CEO of Las Vegas Sands has borrowed that 'catalyst' line :bash:

while the folks here in the philippines continue debate numerous blabberings, other countries quietly gets the job one right away wala ng daldalan pa gawa agad, sa pilipinas aabutin tayo ng siyam-siyam bago kumilos :ohno:

antediluvianist

July 20th, 2009, 01:51 AM

No, that "catalyst" idea is really old, has been used by many people in other countries in other contexts years before Genuino.

The squatters will not go away because we as a people keep pumping out far more children than we can decently support. Population increases faster than the resources. There will be 210 million Filipinos by 2030. There won't even be enough water for people in Manila. Who wants to come to an overcrowded, filthy place? Politicians don't have the balls to oppose the RC Church.

Hirono-kun

July 20th, 2009, 05:03 AM

chillax lang..lets put our trust sa mga investors. Kaya siguro naaaapakatagal kasi sobrang ginagawa nilang ORIGINAL at AWE-INSPIRING ang mga concepts nila..Sa sobra ba namang daming amazing developments sa mundo eh siguro naman na-inspire na sila..Yung sa Okada eh baka di pa yan yung final render kasi next year pa naman sila magsisimula eh, mapapalitan pa yan..

..think positive guys!:lol::nuts::nuts::nuts: matatalbugan ren natin ang iba:banana:..:scouserd::scouserd:

^^ Wala akong trust sa mga investors ngayun. Pero ibubuhos ko ang lahat ng galit ko sa mga architects ng project na ito (I'm talking about Nay. PH.) wala silang originality..... O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L-I-T-Y means yang building na tatak pinoy talaga at may S-T-Y-L-E.

Yun lang ang masasabi ko sa ngayon.

ormocanon

July 20th, 2009, 10:59 AM

Hello peepz! Last Friday night I saw Business & Leisure on cable TV and they were featuring the GEM (Games Entertainment Manila) event. They showed a lengthy open forum on this project with a certain Gamboa (PhilStar columnist) the moderator throwing questions to panelists made up of investors of this project. They also showed computer generated 3D graphics.

That was the first time I heard of the project and my jaw really dropped -- I couldn't believe we have that here. So I looked up on this and I'm glad to find out we have here in SSC. All the panelists assured this is a go and are bullish on the project.

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 20th, 2009, 11:41 AM

Hirono-kun

July 20th, 2009, 04:13 PM

^^ Meron..... I type mo, "Philippines - Into the Future".

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

Narnian_King

July 20th, 2009, 04:56 PM

^^ Meron..... I type mo, "Philippines - Into the Future".

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

Hindi po yan ang tinutukoy niyang video. Yung video po na ipinalabas sa Business & Leisure.

yhuanista07

July 20th, 2009, 07:34 PM

^^ Wala akong trust sa mga investors ngayun. Pero ibubuhos ko ang lahat ng galit ko sa mga architects ng project na ito (I'm talking about Nay. PH.) wala silang originality..... O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L-I-T-Y means yang building na tatak pinoy talaga at may S-T-Y-L-E.

Yun lang ang masasabi ko sa ngayon.

gagraduate din ako... hahaha!!! after 5 years, pasasayawin ko lahat ng buildings!!!:nuts::nuts::nuts:

Hirono-kun

July 21st, 2009, 05:22 AM

Hindi po yan ang tinutukoy niyang video. Yung video po na ipinalabas sa Business & Leisure.

^^ Sori po nagkamali........ thread kasi to ng BN PH eh kaya't ganon nalang ang sagot koh hahaha xD

:bash::bash::bash:

Hirono-kun

July 21st, 2009, 05:23 AM

gagraduate din ako... hahaha!!! after 5 years, pasasayawin ko lahat ng buildings!!!:nuts::nuts::nuts:

^^ Artistahin ka!!!:)

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

Maxxclip

July 21st, 2009, 05:33 AM

gagraduate din ako... hahaha!!! after 5 years, pasasayawin ko lahat ng buildings!!!:nuts::nuts::nuts:

:lol: bakit? kaya bang magcha-cha ng building mo sa intensity na hindi mai-record ng machine?:crazy:

DCRJ

July 21st, 2009, 10:01 AM

this thread 4 has reached page 13 and still there's no concrete reports on BNPEC's latest developments

diz

July 21st, 2009, 10:09 AM

I envy Singapore. Everything under construction now in the country is Grade A.

chris_nigel

July 21st, 2009, 11:04 AM

hantayin na lang natin ang henrasyon na natin ang nagpapatakbo ng bansa baka malay mo gumanda na...

TeslaCoil

July 21st, 2009, 05:08 PM

I envy Singapore. Everything under construction now in the country is Grade A.

And to think this plan was visualized first. We have the land at least :lol:

stanleymalls

July 21st, 2009, 05:13 PM

gagraduate din ako... hahaha!!! after 5 years, pasasayawin ko lahat ng buildings!!!:nuts::nuts::nuts:

^^ Artistahin ka!!!:)

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

:lol: bakit? kaya bang magcha-cha ng building mo sa intensity na hindi mai-record ng machine?:crazy:

Tara! Pasayawin na natin ang Pagcor Tower!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

filcan

July 22nd, 2009, 01:39 AM

^^Its possible :D

The Rotating Dubai Tower

http://thefutureofthings.com/upload/items_icons/rotating-building_large.jpg

see link (http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://thefutureofthings.com/upload/items_icons/rotating-building_large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/201/the-rotating-dubai-tower.html&h=512&w=400&sz=34&tbnid=UgauGbuGbF0qxM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drotating%2Bbuilding&hl=en&usg=__E0iK_dlrU2Iy6opdPl0nvm0Glv8=&ei=YlBmSpB7j-YzpL24kwE&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image)

And to think this plan was visualized first. We have the land at least :lol:

Lets not forget the resort they have in Singapore is just ONE development. Their resort may look nice but The E-City will have more to offer with its developments...monorail, casinos, arena, museums, amusement parks, the PAGCOR Tower, etc....just wait and see...our development will be much better...

RickC

July 22nd, 2009, 02:50 AM

Let's join and help promote Philippines instead of putting it down. True there are politicians that are corrupt but hope there are some that looks beyond self indulgence, maybe true the new generation will be more progressive thinkers and visionaries. God Bless the Philippines. Think Positive and Be Proud.

sloanesquare

July 22nd, 2009, 03:04 AM

I envy Singapore. Everything under construction now in the country is Grade A.

ONLY IN SINGAPORE can the wife of the prime minister be the head of the country's main pension fund Temasek Holdings worth $US90 billion and no one accuse them of nepotism because they really are qualified and competent.

DCRJ

July 22nd, 2009, 04:53 AM

Lets not forget the resort they have in Singapore is just ONE development. Their resort may look nice but The E-City will have more to offer with its developments...monorail, casinos, arena, museums, amusement parks, the PAGCOR Tower, etc....just wait and see...our development will be much better...

Actually there's two integrated resorts in Singapore...

1. Resorts World Sentosa - http://www.rwsentosa.com/

2. Marina Bay Sands - http://www.marinabaysands.com/

both have monorail (Sentosa Express Monorail in Resorts World Sentosa, Waterfront Monorail in Marina Bay Sands), casinos(Marina Bay Sands Casino, Maxims Tower Casino in Resorts World Sentosa), museums (Artscience museum in Marina Bay Sands, Maritime Xperimental Museum in Resorts World Sentosa), amusement parks (Universal Studios in Resorts World Sentosa)

in_a_rush

July 22nd, 2009, 05:00 AM

ang advantage naman natin sa Singapore is that we have more to offer in terms of places to go to beyond the integrated resort.. after the tourists enjoyed their stay in Pagcor city they have more options like going to our beaches (Bora,Palawan etc.) going to sagada,baguio or historical trips to Vigan or Cebu. kulang ang 1 month pra ma-enjoy ang Pilipinas. unlike sa Singapore, I stayed there for 1 week, after the 3rd day wala na akong mapuntahan!

lets always look at the bright side! and stop envying and complaining! :lol:

"ZukiChirO"

July 22nd, 2009, 07:08 AM

guys this is not a Marina bay project of Singapore thread....this thread is for Pagcor city project..take note on that!!!!......

Narnian_King

July 22nd, 2009, 10:16 AM

JulZ

July 22nd, 2009, 11:06 AM

...at isang mapagmamalaki natin ay ang lahing-Pilipino, like pagiging hospitable, entertaining, talented atbp...Pagsamahin mo ang E-city at ang mga Pilipino..:)

guys maaraw na...kaya siguro kayu nega kasi sa maulan na weather last few days...:lol:

yhuanista07

July 22nd, 2009, 03:52 PM

Tara! Pasayawin na natin ang Pagcor Tower!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

sana nga mapaikot naten... at hindi tyo ang pinapaikot ng project n to... hehehe:nuts::nuts::nuts:

uhhhmmm... nakita ku na ung lot ng pagcor city... nagawi lang... uhhhmmm gumagawa sila ng bagong road from roxas blvd... hanggang macapagal... :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Juan Pilgrim

July 22nd, 2009, 04:01 PM

wala pa rin bang action?! kahit na rehashed na press release?

Come on PAGCOR we are waiting... you can do it, yes we can!!!!

:horse:

BergenScooterPatrol

July 22nd, 2009, 04:46 PM

talaga bang PAGCOR City ang magiging name nyan? napaka unimaginative at walang dating.

pinoy : "hey have you been to manila lately? you should try to visit PAGCOR City"

foreign tourist : "what's PAGCOR City?"

p: "it's an integrated resort run by PAGCOR"

ft: "what's PAGCOR"

p: "ahhhh...its the gaming and gambling administrator of the country"

ft: "oh its a seedy place then, im sorry, but i dont gamble"

p: "you can just visit the place it's just lovely"

ft: "yeah but i just dont gamble"

p: "it not just gambling, you can go to..."

ft: "yeah yeah, i rather go a spa or something..no thanks"

now imagine if the resort's name is something like "Sunset Bay" or "Pacific West" or "Asian Sun" or anything cheesier than all those names our local realtors and developers had come up with. (Manhattan Gardens? really??? )

tyronne

July 22nd, 2009, 11:27 PM

^^Read the thread title. :)

yhuanista07

July 23rd, 2009, 02:51 AM

away na!! heheheh... pagcor city parin name nya sa wikipedia... kc pagcor pasimuno...

eh kung c PGMA ang nag-isip ng paglagay ng E-CITY ang name nya cguro ay...

GLORIA FANTASY LAND:banana::banana::banana:

HAHAHA

DCRJ

July 23rd, 2009, 03:22 AM

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 23rd, 2009, 05:30 AM

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 23rd, 2009, 05:35 AM

Hindi po yan ang tinutukoy niyang video. Yung video po na ipinalabas sa Business & Leisure.

exactly! :banana:
enwy... npansin q lng ha, grabe buhay na buhay ang thread na 2, ewan q lng sa project eh buhay n buhay rn ba?
bka lng kc we're jst waiting 4 nothing...

pulsephaze22

July 23rd, 2009, 11:32 AM

kahit anung pangalan ibigay nila sa lugar n yan, kesyo e-city or BNP man yan,. makikilala pa rin ng mga turista yang place na yan as MANILA lang,.. tulad ng las vegas, kilala siya as vegas lang, and macau,. kaya kahit anu pa man i-dub niyo, it will be "genuinely" known as just "MANILA".

Hirono-kun

July 23rd, 2009, 11:35 AM

sloanesquare

July 23rd, 2009, 11:42 AM

they might even think its part of SM

stanleymalls

July 23rd, 2009, 03:22 PM

^^ That would be unforgivable. :no:

yhuanista07

July 23rd, 2009, 03:41 PM

''bagong pagcor entertainment city of manila'':nuts::nuts::nuts::nuts:

bisoy

July 24th, 2009, 01:29 AM

ormocanon

July 24th, 2009, 05:17 AM

Because of the absence of concrete developments, this thread is getting hilarious.:lol:

antediluvianist

July 24th, 2009, 05:24 AM

Names for BNP -

Pickpockets' Paradise

Whores' Heaven

Korea City

Jap Trap

Genuino's Ego

The Leaning Tower of Manila

Manila Bay Basurahan

Shoe Mart City

ormocanon

July 24th, 2009, 05:28 AM

Names for BNP -

Pickpockets' Paradise

Whores' Heaven

Korea City

Jap Trap

Genuino's Ego

The Leaning Tower of Manila

Manila Bay Basurahan

Shoe Mart City
Nice one. I like it!:rofl:

DCRJ

July 24th, 2009, 06:36 AM

this new BNP is very interesting project a legacy of GMA and soon to be credited to the next president, anyway is there a sport complex inside this city, i hope they will put one with facilities for basketball and tennis for international events.:banana::banana::banana:

they say there will be a Formula One Circuit like the ones found in Malaysia, hope it will come into fruition, I hate to see those illegal drag race in macapagal avenue in the wee hours of the morning

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 24th, 2009, 09:48 AM

I rmmber the kkatuwang Hotel na ittayo ni Manny Pacquiao sa Gensan,
daming ngttanong about the name....
eh, may ngsabing kino'combine daw name nya, aswa nya at sa nnay nya.

kya yun ang kumabas "Diomanji Hotel"!
DIOnesia, MANny and JInky...:lol:

Enwy, PAGCOR or Asia's Heart City whatever...khit ano basta it brings the Philippines back on the map...!!!

mark_vincent

July 24th, 2009, 10:50 AM

I really do hope they would come up with a better name. It's current name is just so ugly.

le Reine

July 24th, 2009, 11:03 AM

What is this thread all about again?!

Kintoy

July 24th, 2009, 11:19 AM

antediluvianist

July 24th, 2009, 05:14 PM

No. Singapore used to be more corrupt and dirty than the Philippines. In the old days it was called "Sin Galore".

Lee Kuan Yew and his party changed things.

Singaporeans are now relatively wealthy. They worked very hard to get that way.

As for culture, well of course they are a small island and their culture is a mix of the cultures of the people who emigrated there: mainly Malays, Chinese and Indians, but other ethnic groups too. Their food reflects all these different influences. Nothing wrong about that. Our culture reflects the people who came here also - Malays, Spanish, and Chinese, and to a lesser extent the Americans and others.

I could say a lot more about Singapore. Anyone who thinks Singapore is boring is thinking only superficially. There is a lot more there than concrete. Their universities are ranked higher than ours, for instance.

We need their discipline.

TeslaCoil

July 24th, 2009, 05:33 PM

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 24th, 2009, 06:06 PM

i agree. Singapore is boring, puro buildings lang, no culture to speak of. yung laman ng mga museums, puro mga binili sa ibang bansa.

Syempre malinis, kasi sa sobrang liit nung bansa nila.

that's the good thing with them being malinis, too bad for their cultures...
well enwy, iba-ibang races kc cla dun... hirap pagsamahin, Chinese, Indian, etc... kya wla ibang maisip puro business na lang... eh d2 sa tin middle / lower class isip puro bata, hala cge bata, bata! kaya e2, DO to DO mga anak, ngccmula sa DO re mi fa so la until DO...:lol: So pano pa tau mkkausad?
so cno ang dpat pagsisihan dhilan kahirapan nting mga Pinoy? ang Presidente? hay naku, tau rin ang may ksalanan,
Good luck sa thread na 2! heheheh nalihis ang landas!
wla lng ibang maisip, napansin ko lng ha, buhay na buhay ang thread na 2, ewan ko lng sa project buhay na buhay din ba... ngccmula na ba to???

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 24th, 2009, 06:10 PM

What they have is borrowed culture... I can't believe we helped them to achieve their status now. We need their leaders though.

Aq, di na m4tante ang culture, practical kc hehehehhh
eh sa'tin buhay ang kultura eh ang tyan nman ntin ang tinitira, kya maraming nagugu2m @ nmmatay!

in_a_rush

July 24th, 2009, 08:00 PM

Resorts world in manila is a good start na for this project. may plans naman ang Megaworld na i-connect ang project nila dito.

hecky12

July 24th, 2009, 08:49 PM

kung pagbabasehan natin yung mga sinasabi ng ibang kalapit bansa natin e.. sinasabi nila na there is no true singaporeans. bakit nga kaya nila sinabi yun?

Hirono-kun

July 25th, 2009, 05:57 AM

Aq, di na m4tante ang culture, practical kc hehehehhh
eh sa'tin buhay ang kultura eh ang tyan nman ntin ang tinitira, kya maraming nagugu2m @ nmmatay!

^^ korek ka po dyan sir!!!

boroyski

July 25th, 2009, 11:15 AM

Nagkamale yata ako ng pasok, :nuts: ano ba ang thread na ito? We have to go back to topic. Any update?

DCRJ

July 25th, 2009, 01:09 PM

Nagkamale yata ako ng pasok, :nuts: ano ba ang thread na ito? We have to go back to topic. Any update?

ang thread na ito ngayon ay Bagong Nayong Singapura E-City :bash:

no, seriously, I passed by at the site of Pagcor city at the Macapagal avenue on our way to Cavite today, I saw the road towards the site and I saw the usual crane , mountains of dirt, road pavings..in short..ibang iba na sya compare last two weeks ago...wag na kayo mainip, nag start na sila.

I also noticed banners of Pagcor city in each pole post along macapagal avenue...I took photos but my USB in my laptop right now isn't working with my phone camera, perhaps tomorrow. meron na rin palang road near the coastal mall with the sign BNP E-City with an arrow towards the site...from MIA road diretso na dun

antediluvianist

July 25th, 2009, 01:50 PM

There are many comments on Singapore because there has been hardly any progress at Pagcor City for a long time. Nothing significant to talk about re: Pagcor City.

newgabskii

July 25th, 2009, 03:10 PM

http://www.casinogamingstock.net/?s=mgm+mirage+philippines

MGM Mirage (MGM: 7.73 +6.47%) announced this week its is in negotiations to develop a casino in Taiwan, and reviewing potential gambling projects in the Philippines and Japan.

MGM executives said at least three different investment groups were seeking to bring Taiwan a casino, and each would totally fund the project, allowing MGM to concentrate its cash on its own liquidity problems.

“(We) have a desire to aggressively expand in Asia. It’s the most exciting gaming market in the world,” Lloyd Nathan, president of global gaming development for MGM Mirage.

Several Japanese corporations have expressed interest in partnering with MGM to bring casinos to their country, said Nathan.

MGM’s relentless expansion has proved a source of great financial difficulty for the gaming operator since the onset of the recession, almost forcing it into bankruptcy. But apparently company leaders are prepared to crank up the same systems at the first opportunity.

JulZ

July 25th, 2009, 04:39 PM

mabanggit kaya ang e-city sa darating na SONA? Kung mabanggit man, sana magstart na sila right after..

DCRJ

July 26th, 2009, 12:37 AM

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 26th, 2009, 01:37 AM

Let's hope MGM Mirage invest in our country, they will be a great asset and an iconic attraction...I can see it now, future headlines "10th Titlist in 10 Division P4P King Manny Pacquiao Promotes Hall of Famer Nonito Donaire vs. _________ at the MGM Grand Philippines, Pagcor E-City on Dec. 8, 2015"

WOW na WOW!
So 5 - 10 years from now, Philippines could be the Asia's finest tourist attraction!!!
Let's hope!

vestige

July 26th, 2009, 03:23 AM

Hi,

I'm kinda new here, I just want to ask if there will be a possibility of residential condominiums in this "hopefully" do-a-ble project? If so...any pre-selling. I already asked an agent while inquiring on the SM site(honestly, I find it very expensive...no offence to others), but I garnered no reply.

Thanks in advance for any replies. ^_^

Narnian_King

July 26th, 2009, 09:02 AM

MGM Grand considering manila? why not.

PhilUk19

July 26th, 2009, 10:36 AM

:banana::)I hope to the good lord MGM come here and build an iconic mega hotel!!!! It will be so good for Phil Tourism!!!! :):banana:

filcan

July 26th, 2009, 02:30 PM

^^agree!! and let's hope once MGM is here other Vegas hotels will follow :okay:

stanleymalls

July 26th, 2009, 03:09 PM

That would be one helluva view that can rival Macau's!!! :D :D :banana:

Juan Pilgrim

July 26th, 2009, 06:28 PM

yhuanista07

July 26th, 2009, 07:36 PM

http://www.lasvegaslogue.com/files/2007/08/citycenter-artrend.jpg

MGM mirage???

Narnian_King

July 27th, 2009, 03:29 AM

http://smiliesftw.com/x/undefinedmindedemfuser.gif (http://smiliesftw.com)Just because MGM Mirage is reviewing potential gambling projects in the Philippines
doesn't mean it's going to be in the BNP City.

For all we know it can me somewhere else in the country, maybe CEBU or DAVAO or ...

:horse:

kahit san pa yan sa pinas, kahit sa basilan pa. :cheers:

Isang magandang opportunity kapag nagdecide na ang MGM mag invest sa Pilipinas. :cheers:

JulZ

July 27th, 2009, 03:34 AM

sana mamaya sa SONA eh magbigay na ng GO SIGNAL sa mga investors!!

Juan Pilgrim

July 27th, 2009, 03:36 AM

kahit san pa yan sa pinas, kahit sa basilan pa. :cheers:

Isang magandang opportunity kapag nagdecide na ang MGM mag invest sa Pilipinas. :cheers:

^^yan rin mismo ang punto ko!

:horse:

adgaps

July 27th, 2009, 04:40 AM

no, seriously, I passed by at the site of Pagcor city at the Macapagal avenue on our way to Cavite today, I saw the road towards the site and I saw the usual crane , mountains of dirt, road pavings..in short..ibang iba na sya compare last two weeks ago...wag na kayo mainip, nag start na sila.

I also noticed banners of Pagcor city in each pole post along macapagal avenue...I took photos but my USB in my laptop right now isn't working with my phone camera, perhaps tomorrow. meron na rin palang road near the coastal mall with the sign BNP E-City with an arrow towards the site...from MIA road diretso na dun

^^ yeah, i noticed the banners, too...

and, may i know what exactly the cranes were doing when you passed by the site... :)

mabanggit kaya ang e-city sa darating na SONA? Kung mabanggit man, sana magstart na sila right after..

sana nga... and i believe isasama nya yun, dahil it's perhaps the biggest single project in the Philippines today...

i was expecting na habang dinedescribe ni GMA yung E-city project ay ipapakita yung live video ng construction.. that would be awesome!! :banana::banana:

DCRJ

July 27th, 2009, 07:53 AM

and, may i know what exactly the cranes were doing when you passed by the site... :)

parang naka park lang yung crane...maybe because it was a Saturday when I passed by that day, rest day siguro nila :bash:

pero ibang iba na yung area compared last two weeks ago...more road pavements, more truckload of dirts at the side :banana:

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 27th, 2009, 08:32 AM

So, it means, tuloy n tuloy na ang project na to!!!
let's jst hope na lng na ma2loy din ang MGM Mirage plan khit san mang parte 2 ng Pinas maitau,
yun ang m4tante!!!

pulsephaze22

July 27th, 2009, 09:45 AM

^^ no offense pero paulit-ulit ko na naririnig yang linya na yan ah,.. for more than a year na nga eh,. lol

and it goes like this:

last year
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

almost last year
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

last 8 months
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

4 months ago
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

a month ago
so it mean tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

at ngayon lang
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

eto talaga, LET'S JUST HOPE NA....... hindi ito magrerepEat ng magrerepeat until mag FADE...:bash::nuts::ohno:

DCRJ

July 27th, 2009, 10:40 AM

from Macapagal Avenue going south to Cavite, snapshot near the Uniwide Coastal Mall Building, a banner of pagcor city 'soon' and the BNPE-City sign with an arrow direction to the west

http://i835.photobucket.com/albums/zz274/dcrjreloaded3/july252009.jpg
naharangan ng sasakyan after clicking the shutter hehe

http://i835.photobucket.com/albums/zz274/dcrjreloaded3/july252009b.jpg

adgaps

July 27th, 2009, 12:03 PM

^^ some of them even have Genuino's face on them... :lol:

Dakpa ang akong tiil

July 27th, 2009, 01:29 PM

^^ no offense pero paulit-ulit ko na naririnig yang linya na yan ah,.. for more than a year na nga eh,. lol

and it goes like this:

last year
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

almost last year
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

last 8 months
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

4 months ago
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

a month ago
so it mean tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

at ngayon lang
so it means tuloy na nga tong project na to!,.. Let's just hope na,..........

:bash::nuts::ohno:

ano ba yan?!!!!:lol:
ok, rephrase ko linya mo ha...

eto talaga, LET'S JUST FADE NA....... hindi ito magrerepEat ng magrerepeat until mag HOPE...
:bash:

I ain't worryin it, since Sir DCRJ proves it thru his pics!!!
may update na! my hope wont be faded!!!sori!

JulZ

July 27th, 2009, 03:16 PM

di ko narinig sa sona ang E-city:ohno:

mark_vincent

July 27th, 2009, 03:54 PM

I hope you guys refrain from posting non-sense in this thread.

Paulit ulit na lang mga sinasabi nyo. :ohno:

yhuanista07

July 27th, 2009, 04:20 PM

I hope you guys refrain from posting non-sense in this thread.

Paulit ulit na lang mga sinasabi nyo. :ohno:

ganon talaga... pagnaumpisahan n cguro ung construction... mabilis pa cguro ang thread n toh kesa sa PNR eh... hehehe

TeslaCoil

July 27th, 2009, 04:24 PM

I hope you guys refrain from posting non-sense in this thread.

Paulit ulit na lang mga sinasabi nyo. :ohno:

Hi arciga :lol:

It is probably the only way to keep this thread and interest of people in this project. It doesn't hurt anyone, does it?

Hirono-kun

July 27th, 2009, 04:38 PM

imanaddict

July 28th, 2009, 05:30 AM

If PAGCOR will allow big gaming operators to operate the casinos entirely by themselves, then we won't only see MGM and Wynn, but others may flock over. I guess that's the major drawback of these companies from setting up in E-city.

Mangengealam kasi si PAGCOR sa management kaya ayaw nila! hehe.

sloanesquare

July 28th, 2009, 09:56 AM

i bet when PAGCOR takes hold we will have even more incompetent people running for Mayor of Pasay since the position (and tax revenue) will be impossible to ignore

Gildong

July 28th, 2009, 10:39 AM

i bet when PAGCOR takes hold we will have even more incompetent people running for Mayor of Pasay since the position (and tax revenue) will be impossible to ignore

I AGREE..!! I AGREE..!!
malaki laking tax yun kpag nagkataon..

______________________________
I'M ALSO TO THE PINK

BF for President!!

in_a_rush

July 28th, 2009, 01:04 PM

i bet when PAGCOR takes hold we will have even more incompetent people running for Mayor of Pasay since the position (and tax revenue) will be impossible to ignore

but wait, this is in Paranaque na diba?

adgaps

July 28th, 2009, 01:22 PM

but wait, this is in Paranaque na diba?

^^ ako rin nagtaka kung bakit Pasay ang pinag-uusapan nila eh... :nuts::nuts:

akala siguro nila since katabi sya ng Mall of Asia Complex eh sa Pasay din ang E-city...

Mall of Asia Complex is at Pasay... E-city is at Paranaque... :)

azodrima

July 28th, 2009, 05:56 PM

azodrima

July 28th, 2009, 06:38 PM

Hi guys, can't wait for the construction as well. Let's hope and pray na slowly but surely ang development.

And for those of you who are still awed and impressed of the developments in other countries/places specially the emirate of Dubai, read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai_b_183851.html

I find this part rather amusing (a British woman talking about the class hierarchy in Dubai):

They have been in Dubai for twenty years, and they are happy to explain how the city works. "You've got a hierarchy, haven't you?" Ann says. "It's the Emiratis at the top, then I'd say the British and other Westerners. Then I suppose it's the Filipinos, because they've got a bit more brains than the Indians. Then at the bottom you've got the Indians and all them lot." They admit, however, they have "never" spoken to an Emirati. Never? "No. They keep themselves to themselves."

Sorry mods, this is out of topic, but very very enlightening!

DCRJ

July 29th, 2009, 12:06 PM

Hi guys, can't wait for the construction as well. Let's hope and pray na slowly but surely ang development.

And for those of you who are still awed and impressed of the developments in other countries/places specially the emirate of Dubai, read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai_b_183851.html

"Everything in Dubai is fake. Everything you see. The trees are fake, the workers' contracts are fake, the islands are fake, the smiles are fake - even the water is fake!" So why is she here? I hear the same Dubai fairytale, as scripted by the Brothers Grimm. She got into debt to come here, and she is stuck for three years. It's an old story now. "I think Dubai is like an oasis. It is an illusion, not real. You think you have seen water in the distance, but you get close and you only get a mouthful of sand."

Well, at least I can safely say that islands in the Philippines aren't fake, the smiles in the Philippines aren't fake, definitely the Philippines isn't an illusion...it is very real, what you see is what you get, whether there is good and bad there's no pretensions whatsoever, tourists gotta love the Philippines. Pagcor city will serve as a portal to numerous destinations in the Philippines, God bless the Philippines.

adgaps

July 29th, 2009, 01:14 PM

lanrocksea

July 29th, 2009, 03:06 PM

^^ guyz, i have some questions:

if i'll be coming from SM MoA, how do i get to the site?

if i'll be commuting, what route should i take?

or is it alright to be walking from SM MoA to the construction site?

if your going to commute, its better that you come from Uniwide mall, then walk your way to the site (shorter distance).

or from MOA, hail a cab or ride the bus, I know their route should pass by the site.

Sky Harbor

July 29th, 2009, 04:05 PM

Okay, I'll try to bring this thread back to topic.

It seems that in reality, the land allocated for the BNP-ECM is very large. It begins at the Great Mall of China and ends at Coastal Mall. Though no major construction is taking place, there are some equipment and construction materials located on-site.

yhuanista07

July 30th, 2009, 02:10 AM

Narnian_King

July 30th, 2009, 05:33 AM

^^
The way things are going, this thread belongs to the rumors thread, puro hinala at speculations. Ni isang dangkal na hukay sa lupa, wala pa rin.

sabi ng aruze, sa 2010 pa sila at ang genting at alliance global naman ay magsisimula kapag nagtagumpay ang Sentosa Manila sa newport city.

"ZukiChirO"

July 30th, 2009, 05:58 AM

sabi ng aruze, sa 2010 pa sila at ang genting at alliance global naman ay magsisimula kapag nagtagumpay ang Sentosa Manila sa newport city.

i thought 2009 and sa third quarter mag start ang construction ng ARUZE!!!...lahat ata ang investor na depress sa RECESSION sa mundo, kaya hangang ngaun wala paring nangyayari sa PAGCOR CITY, drawing palang:lol::lol::lol:...

Hirono-kun

July 30th, 2009, 06:36 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkfaLLRVBg0

mas maraming magandang places na nakapalibot sa PAGCOR city... kesa sa vegas... wag lang maligaw ang mga tourist sa tondo... and sana talagang METRO GWAPO n ung manila...

^^ but we can't really avoid that they're many squatters in our country......

:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

Narnian_King

July 30th, 2009, 07:01 AM

i thought 2009 and sa third quarter mag start ang construction ng ARUZE!!!...lahat ata ang investor na depress sa RECESSION sa mundo, kaya hangang ngaun wala paring nangyayari sa PAGCOR CITY, drawing palang:lol::lol::lol:...

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8630/18303864.jpg
Summer 2010

imanaddict

July 30th, 2009, 07:10 AM

I believe the investors are also going speculate on the success of the new hotel/casino @ newport city (Maxim's). I bet my pwet, if Maxim's is a success, most big wigs will setup at E-City.

sloanesquare

July 30th, 2009, 08:10 AM

but wait, this is in Paranaque na diba?

that explains then why EDSA between Tramo and Roxas Blvd looks like a pig sty....Peewee has no financial interest in Pagcor city, so why should he give us a nice civilised thoroughfare.

adgaps

July 30th, 2009, 09:01 AM

from MoA, a tall crane can be seen at the site...

it seems they're already working on something at the site... i'm just not sure what it is...

Ronskie

July 30th, 2009, 01:24 PM

let see and wait...sisimulan din yan after 10 years..hahahaha

don't expect and excited too much else all of you will be frustrated...thinks something like a fact not an imagination or speculation. :)

TeslaCoil

July 31st, 2009, 05:36 AM

from MoA, a tall crane can be seen at the site...

it seems they're already working on something at the site... i'm just not sure what it is...

sana man lang kinuhaan mo ng picture kahit camera phone lang. mapipilitan pa tuloy ako pumunta ngayong sabado:lol:

rayray2009

July 31st, 2009, 05:37 AM

This project is something that we Filipino can be proud of. But Im hoping that this E-City be one of a kind, distinctly Filipino (hence BAGONG NAYONG FILIPINO) and not to compare to Las Vegas or Macau. What I mean is the ORIGINALITY. It should be something that we and foreigners can say.. "wow, this is a great place, I havent seen anything awesome like this anywhere but only here in the Philippines!!" A project that is truly world class and one of a kind. And by the way, we should stop saying "Las Vegas of the Philippines" or "Macau of the Philippines". Let's just say, an entertainment city that would surpass all the famous places on earth! Why not? Coz I've been noticing that every time there are infra projects in the Philippines, they always associate or compare to USA, Japan or other famous countries. Or worse, they are similar to the designs of famous landmarks of other countries. Can't we just make our own project a genuine or distinctly Filipino that will put us on the map and that we can be proud of? Why dont we make projects in the Philippines the best in the world? We should'nt just be contented with just having the project done but we should also see if it is truly world class. The best example of this is the NAIA terminal 3 which a lot of Filipinos and even some politicians or even GMA say that it is beautiful and world class. But the reality is a big NO. That terminal is so boring with no art at all. From ceiling to the floor, one can notice that there is no sense of ''high-tech'' or sense or art. So bare and no life at all. It is good that the check-in hall of the terminal looks a bit ok. Look at Dubai, they are building infra or super structures but distinctly in Dubai. They maybe imitating some buildings but they are better than the original, like the Atlantis. Hmmm...

So I hope this project will put Manila on the map of famous landmarks coz until now, Philippines has no distinct landmark yet.

vestige

August 1st, 2009, 06:30 AM

grabe ang ad nito sa CNN...they are inviting the international investors to participate or to be parts of this project....cant wait...:cheers:

^^
-------------Is this a proposed project to be built in the Philippines?

Haven't seen the ad yet on CNN...:dance:

JulZ

August 1st, 2009, 07:04 AM

check this out!!

http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/

love to see such architecture in ecity!

DCRJ

August 2nd, 2009, 02:47 AM

eto, latest article but not on Pagcor city itself, it's about the construction of the Bagong Nayong Pilipino Cultural Heritage Park within the Pagcor City complex which is actually 'old' news for us

***************

New Nayong Pilipino park to start soon
August 1, 2009, 12:51pm

The Bagong Nayong Pilipino Cultural and Heritage Park is scheduled to start construction in a fully-embanked and developed site at the Manila Bay Reclamation Area in Parañaque City, officials said.

Construction work on the Bagong Nayong Pilipino is expected to finish before the year ends, with its facilities fully operational by June 2010, according to Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) Executive Director Atty. Charito Planas.

Planas said the transfer of the Nayong Pilipino Park from Pasay City is part of President Arroyo’s 8-point agenda which is in fulfillment of the present NPF Board’s plans to put up a world-class cultural theme park and at the same time restore the past glory of the old Nayong Pilipino.

The all-women Board of Trustees of the BNPCHP is chaired by Dr. Evelyn L. Kilayko.

The Bagong Nayong Pilipino will emerge alongside and at par with other globally-competitive family leisure areas within the PAGCOR Entertainment City at the Manila Bay reclamation area.

Currently undergoingpublic bidding are NPF’s requirements for the electrical, vertical and landscape phases of construction for the new cultural and heritage park that will pave the way for the construction of the structures.

The planned structures include miniaturized famous scenic tribes, museum, sports and recreation areas plus other surprises to make the new park more interesting, entertaining, educational and interactive.

The design for the new BNPCHP adopted by the foundation’s board of trustees was based on the original master plan and concept of architect Jason Buensalido who won the design competition in 2002.

Aside from Kilayko and Planas, other board members include Roanna Ginglasan-Conti, architect Ma. Lourdes D. Velarde, lawyer Rio C. Inocencio, Imelda S. Gomez, Pacita U. Juan, Josefina “Joy” Belmonte-Alimurung and Susan Calo Medina.

source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/213788/new-nayong-pilipino-park-start-soon

adgaps

August 2nd, 2009, 08:39 AM

^^ ok, so uunahin nila yung Cultural and heritage park...

basta sana nga umpisahan na nila agad...

ormocanon

August 20th, 2009, 12:10 PM

Repost from Manila Bayshore thread:
^^At ang lahat ay mauwi sa "frustration"! Read the article below:

Height limit a problem for proposed structures at Pagcor City (http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/14503-height-limit-a-problem-for-proposed-structures-at-pagcor-city.html)

Written by Recto Mercene / Reporter
Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:19

THE Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is in discussion with officials of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) over a decision to approve or turn down plans to construct a 300-meter-tall Pagcor Tower, piercing the sky over the reclaimed Manila Bay.

Plans are also afoot to construct a huge Ferries wheel, modeled after the London Eye, which would be about 135 meters tall. Both structures would be the centerpiece of the proposed Pagcor City.

The tower will have two globular designs along its length to house restaurants and viewing decks where visitors could have a commanding view of Metro Manila all the way to the foothills of Antipolo.

The full name of Pagcor City is Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City, after the miniaturized Philippine villages have been uprooted from its home at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) compound to merge with the Pagcor complex.

The whole complex is a Las Vegas-type gaming and entertainment center that would soon dominate the 8 square kilometer of reclaimed land in Manila Bay, adjacent to the Mall of Asia.

The project is expected to include between $15 billion and $20 billion of investments spread over three phases.

However, Pagcor City lies within the 5-kilometer radius of the Naia, where the height of infrastructure is regulated by the CAAP. Within this radius, height of buildings is limited to 56 meters.

This regulation is aimed to protect the air traveling public, either from airplane colliding with the tall tower or any man-made edifice. Most often the infrastructure themselves become sort of an obstruction, preventing the radio signals coming from the Naia instruments landing system to be properly received by airplanes, disorienting pilots, according to the CAAP.

That is why most buildings surrounding the Naia compound, within that critical 5-mile radius are limited in height up to a maximum of 56 meters.

The same height limitations of man-made infrastructure are imposed in the provinces adjacent to airports.

The BusinessMirror gathered that hotels, state-of-the-art theaters, gaming centers and residential villages, condominium and hospitals that are integral parts of Pagcor City would have an average height of 100 meters.

This problem is now confronting Pagcor developers, not having seen in advance the limitation imposed by aviation authorities before they committed to breaking the ground on the new city by the bay that would have rivaled the gambling entertainment mecca Las Vegas.

CAAP sources said they might compromise and allow the 100-meter-tall infrastructure such as the condominium and hotels to proceed with the construction.

However, the green signal for the Pagcor Tower and the “Manila Eye” Ferris wheel are being held in abeyance.

The Pagcor City complex will be built in three phases on 800 hectares of reclaimed land. The first phase will host a hotel-resort and theme park. The next two phases will have retirement villages and entertainment centers.

CAAP Director General Ruben Ciron said he had been updated on the project and attending to problems, consulting with his men to find a solution so that the multibillion peso project could proceed as planned.

He has yet to hand down a decision.

“These tall projects of Pagcor could be built in the reclaimed land and become the centerpiece of the gambling city if the Naia runway complex and the airport itself would be relocated instead,” according to one observer.

There have been suggestions to move the whole Naia complex to the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in the former military base in Clark, Pampanga.

That move could be viable if the Naia complex, Makati and The Fort in Taguig could be connected to Clark by a high-speed “bullet train” like the one connecting Central Tokyo to Narita Airport, about an hour away by the famous Shenkanshen trains of Japan.

A top official of the CAAP said the 300-meter tower and Manila Eye could be completed if they are located either in Navotas, Calamba or Santa Rosa, Laguna, a distance of about 25 kilometers from the Naia, but definitely not at the present proposed site in Manila Bay.

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What a mess!??:ohno:

manila_eye

August 21st, 2009, 12:54 AM

wow nabuhay! anong merong bago?

jaygold06

August 21st, 2009, 04:42 AM

honga... may latest development ba kaya ibinalik itong thread na to?!?

hecky12

August 21st, 2009, 10:15 AM

i saw a billboard lampas ng edsa taft... going to moa... malaki yun nakalagay is sole mare ata yun? tapos merong direction... papunta raw ito ng bradco ave... sa may macapagal.. yung nakalagay sa billboard is buildings two towers ata ito... so ibig sabihin may mga latest development na sa area?

in_a_rush

August 21st, 2009, 07:40 PM

please support newport city, pra tuloy tuloy na ang projects ng Genting sa pagcor city.

Andrew Tan group to invest P36 billion in Pasay's Newport City
By Mary Ann Ll. Reyes (The Philippine Star) Updated August 20, 2009 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - A group of local and foreign investors, led by Alliance Global Inc. of tycoon Andrew Tan, is investing around $740 million (P36 billion) until 2012 to transform the old Philippine Air Force barracks near Villamor Air Base in Pasay City into a world-class integrated tourism development, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

The 25-hectare Newport City will feature not only residential condominiums which are mostly sold out, but will also play host to the $600-million Resorts World Manila that will occupy around 7.8 hectares.

“With Resorts World Manila, we are aiming to transform the Philippines into Asia’s next tourism powerhouse,” Travellers International Hotel Group president Kingson Sian told The STAR.

Behind Resorts World Manila is Travellers, which is 50 percent owned by Alliance Global, 40 percent by Star Cruises, and 10 percent by Megaworld. The latter chose to own 10 percent of Travellers in exchange for the land which Resorts World Manila will occupy.

Alliance Global is the parent company of Megaworld, Golden Arches (McDonalds) and Travellers International.

Star Cruises, meanwhile, is the third largest cruise line operator in the world and is part of Genting Berhad Group, one of Malaysia’s largest conglomerates and a global gaming company. Genting owns the Genting Highlands Resort-Casino in Kuala Lumpur and is building Resorts World at Sentosa which will have the world’s largest oceanarium and a Universal Studio theme park.

Following the Philippine government’s decision to deregulate the gaming industry last year, Travellers International was awarded the first private gaming license to develop, own and manage casinos, with the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) as regulator. Its first casino will be located at the Resorts World Manila while the second one will be at the Pagcor City at the Reclamation Area. The first floor of the three-floor casino will be opened to the public on Aug. 28.

Sian, who is also a director of Megaworld, said all the aspects of Resorts World Manila will be available by yearend or early next year at the latest, except for the budget hotel.

Resorts World Manila will have three hotels. The first one will be the six-star 172 all-suites Maxims Hotel and Gaming Center while the second will be the 342-rooms five-star Marriott Hotel. The third will be the 1,000-room budget hotel Remington.

Aside from the three hotels, Resorts World will feature the Newport Mall which will have four high-end cinemas, four-levels of luxury brand stores, and will have a glass roofing similar to the MGM Hotels and Casinos. The Newport Theater, meanwhile, will offer world-class entertainment for the performing arts.

Sian said aside from the “live and play” aspects of Newport City, there is also the work component, highlighted by the operations of Star Cruises which have been moved from Malaysia to here. “They retrenched 500 Malaysians and moved their world operations headquarters here. From here, they can have surveillance satellites that can see all their ships anywhere in the world,” he pointed out.

He also stressed that Genting and Star Cruises are the perfect partners for this integrated tourism development, which will bring in not only a total of $740 million in investments on a once-idle government property, but also 10,000 in new employment and the potential to bring in 11 million tourists.

“This is a game changer and will put the Philippines on the global tourism map. Being in front of NAIA Terminal 3 and very near the other airport terminals, Newport City will serve as the jump-off point for other tourism destinations in the country like Boracay and Bohol. The global sales networks of both Genting and Star Cruises can help us attract more tourists into the country, And they are very familiar with junket operations,” he said. The casinos will be run by Genting Management Services.

He said the Philippines has the perfect location to be the region’s next tourism powerhouse, with a two billion market potential within a four-hour flight radius to Manila. “The country just needed the right product,” Sian emphasized.

He said the Philippines reported an all-time high of 3.14 million tourist arrivals last year and the figure is expected to grow five percent annualy from 2009-2010. “We see this as an opportunity because we are coming from a low base. The problem was that we didn’t have the right product that will attract international tourists to come,” Sian explained.

Alliance Global chairman Andrew Tan earlier said their group is investing around $1.55 billion over the next five years for its tourism programs, including building 5,000 rooms.

Sian explained that aside from the 1,500 rooms of the three hotels at Resorts World at Manila, Travellers International will build another 3,000 to 4,000 rooms at Pagcor City once they develop another tourism type of development, including a casino and hotels, there. “While here at Resorts World, we only have around eight hectares, at the Pagcor City, we will have 40 hectares,” he stressed.

As for the casino that will occupy the first three floors of Maxims Hotel, Sian said the casino will occupy a total of 30,000 square meters and will have 300 table and 1,000 slot machines.

“We expect around 10,000 people to play here every day and that around 65 percent of our guests will be local and the rest, foreign. We are investing money to expand the market and attract tourists. We do not want to just take away customers from the Pagcor casinos. While there may be high rollers who will move to our casinos, we expect the bulk of our market to be local tourists who have never entered casinos and who want to play on weekends while their family is engaged in some other activity here at Newport City.”

stanleymalls

August 21st, 2009, 08:48 PM

WOW! Nabuhay na muli! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

At least may balita na din(kahit maliit) kung ano na nga ba ang mangyayari sa PAGCOR City.

manila_eye

August 21st, 2009, 08:50 PM

in_a_rush

August 22nd, 2009, 10:38 AM

sole mare is not part of BNP. part sya ng bagong new chinatown.

joke ba yung bagong new chinatown na yun? anyway, solemare is neither a part of BNP nor Neochinatown.

manila_eye

August 22nd, 2009, 05:46 PM

lol at the bago and new. anyway, an agent approached me in moa months ago and she's selling units of solemare. the location is quite near the neochinatown or it could be another condo.

IslandSon.PH

August 23rd, 2009, 03:48 PM

JulZ

August 23rd, 2009, 03:56 PM

^^yan ang update! san nyo po nakuha? wla po bang mas malaki nyan (demanding..lol)

IslandSon.PH

August 23rd, 2009, 04:03 PM

^^no prob.. source (http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180&Itemid=77)

epik ll ian

August 23rd, 2009, 10:53 PM

What about the theme park???

keng koi

August 23rd, 2009, 11:34 PM

resorts world manila will be open soon.. aug. 28, 2009..

Dakpa ang akong tiil

August 25th, 2009, 08:43 AM

Ayan nabuhay muli ang pasig! esteh ang BNPECM...! hehehehhh
pro i notice wla p rin pgkkaiba sa prev news eh, ano ba tlga kuya?!!!
wla bang bagong news sa thread na 2?

wynngd

August 25th, 2009, 12:07 PM

^^ may construction sa may Roxas Blvd malapit dito... part ba sya ng Bagong nayong Pilipino???

adgaps

August 25th, 2009, 01:28 PM

^^ i think hindi... baka ibang project na yun...

Narnian_King

August 25th, 2009, 03:06 PM

Maganda din naman pala yung Bagong Nayong Pilipino pero masyadong matagal ang gap sa pagbukas nito muli. :lol:

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1854/19175275.jpg
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2753/22665454.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9964/42252989.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/2880/30888597.jpg
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5900/21714362.jpg

epik ll ian

August 25th, 2009, 04:18 PM

resorts world manila will be open soon.. aug. 28, 2009..

Wasn't there supposed to be a theme park with roller coasters etc. though? There was supposed to be Universal Studios but that idea crashed ... ?

stanleymalls

August 25th, 2009, 06:21 PM

:cheers:

http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/images/stories/nayong-pilipino/aerial-perspective.jpg

http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/images/stories/nayong-pilipino/luzon-region.jpg

http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/images/stories/nayong-pilipino/visayas-region.jpg

http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/images/stories/nayong-pilipino/mindanao-region.jpg

http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/images/stories/nayong-pilipino/site-development-plan.jpg

http://www.buensalidoarchitects.com/images/stories/nayong-pilipino/story-board.jpg

For this and the source, ÜBER SALAMAT!!! :bow: :master:

Wasn't there supposed to be a theme park with roller coasters etc. though? There was supposed to be Universal Studios but that idea crashed ... ?

Because of Singapore. They had an agreement with Genting Berhad that US will not be constructed on any other ASEAN country in 30 years other than Singapore.

But I'll be glad if Genting will build Warner Bros. Park here. :D

Narnian_King

August 25th, 2009, 06:29 PM

Wasn't there supposed to be a theme park with roller coasters etc. though? There was supposed to be Universal Studios but that idea crashed ... ?

Yung Resorts World Manila ay ibang project ni Andrew Tan at Genting. Kapag naging successful ang Resorts World ay duon na sisimulan ang pagconstruct ng warner bros. theme park, six star hotel and high end shopping complex

DCRJ

August 26th, 2009, 12:50 AM

Maganda din naman pala yung Bagong Nayong Pilipino pero masyadong matagal ang gap sa pagbukas nito muli. :lol:

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1854/19175275.jpg

i hope i am correct, it looks like there's a cable car in the works...see small pic snippet on the left lower corner

adgaps

August 26th, 2009, 09:40 AM

i went to the site yesterday, and here are what i saw:

from the bridge at Macapagal Boulevard, this is the first poster i saw
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9513/image224i.jpg

somewhere in that area.. that's between Bradco Ave. and Aseana Ave.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7577/image225g.jpg

Aseana Avenue.. actually, may mga nakaharang na concrete barriers dito.. signifying na sarado itong road..
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2503/image227.jpg

ilalim ng isang poste ng ilaw along Macapagal Boulevard, sa area ding yan..
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/3074/image226.jpg

btw, here's a map of the area:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6310/locationk.jpg

hecky12

August 26th, 2009, 09:49 AM

merong mga cranes along roxas blvd nga.. kung hindi ako nagkakamali e tapat or malapit ito sa airport road.. not sure if part yun or isa lang sa mga gagawin dun sa area na yun...

about the sole mare... at least meron na silang advertisement.. hindi man siya part ng BNP at least meron na...

DCRJ

August 26th, 2009, 10:39 AM

i went to the site yesterday, and here are what i saw:

btw, here's a map of the area:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6310/locationk.jpg

^^^ I saw our street (M. Roxas St.) on the map where I work :banana:

Thanks for the photos

********

Here's mine which were taken last Sunday Aug. 23, 2009 on our way to SM Mall of Asia.

http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss160/dcrjmed2012/080920091955.jpg

http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss160/dcrjmed2012/082320091960.jpg
the cranes are now nowhere to be found , as seen from my previous photo taken last month. Roads are being paved as of Aug. 23, 2009

adgaps

August 26th, 2009, 10:49 AM

^^ san banda yang site na yan? parang hindi ko napuntahan yan ah...

DCRJ

August 26th, 2009, 11:23 AM

^^^ from Uniwide Coastal Mall to SM Mall of Asia..along Diosdado Macapagal road...pagkalampas lang ng Shell Gas Station

bustero

August 26th, 2009, 03:43 PM

Toured this place kanina lang and apparently this is on. Belle will revive their project and Mega will get started soon. 7 year horizon. looks good.

sloanesquare

August 27th, 2009, 10:50 AM

......

sloanesquare

August 27th, 2009, 10:51 AM

HEADS UP........THE 2ND LAST photo above says

SOON

i thought that 3000 posts ago..i was fooled.

NicknameForLife

August 27th, 2009, 10:56 AM

THE RESURRECTION OF BNPEC - Manila....
dpat nga buksan ulit ito...

maraming gagawin ang pamahalaan natin ah... tingnan nyo naman
1. Cultural Center
2. Manila Bayshore
3. BNP
ang prob...
kung kailan matatapos ang termino saka gagawin... un nga lang
pero ang GUD NEWS... hindi na si GMA ang pangulo at sigurado akong merong isang "MATINONG PRESIDENTE" ang tutuloy at magpapatapos nito....

ormocanon

August 27th, 2009, 10:59 AM

Kailangan pa palang tanggalin muna 'tong thread na 'to para mabuhay ang project. :lol:

antediluvianist

August 27th, 2009, 01:00 PM

"SOON" is a relative term. For us mortals, "SOON" means within a few months. In God's (Genuino's) mind, "SOON" can be many years.

PhilUk19

August 28th, 2009, 12:06 PM

:banana::banana::banana::banana:Billionaire Tan and Star Cruises Open Manila Casino (Update2):banana::banana::banana::banana:
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By Ian C. Sayson

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Philippine billionaire Andrew Tan and Star Cruises Ltd. today opened their $700 million Resorts World Manila, which will double the tables in the city and may boost its casino revenue more than 120 percent.

“Our expectation is this will contribute to earnings within the first year of operations,” said Kingson Sian, president of Alliance Global Group Inc., the holding company of Tan, the Philippines’ fourth-richest person. The venture will tap Star Cruises’ network of more than 2.5 million customers and will bus in people from outside Manila, he said.

The casino’s opening in a former air force base is another step in the Philippines’ effort to tap Asia’s gambling boom as it could gain revenue from the region’s high rollers, Macquarie Group Ltd. analysts said. While growth has slowed in Macau, the world’s largest gambling hub still had about $6.4 billion casino revenue in the first half of this year.

“The Philippines has some of the world’s best beaches and dive sites,” Macquarie strategist Alex Pomento said in an interview. “Resorts World Manila, with its world class casino and entertainment, can help the country attract more tourists and revive its gaming industry.”

Star Cruises gained 5.8 percent to 27.5 cents at 2:08 p.m. in Singapore, boosting its surge this year to 224 percent. Its Hong Kong-traded stock climbed 6.7 percent to HK$2.07 and has advanced 245 percent this year. Alliance Global, which has almost tripled this year, was unchanged at 5.10 Philippine pesos in Manila trading.

Revenue Forecast

The venture, Travellers International Hotel Group Inc., opened the first floor of a three-level casino at a complex that will include hotels and a shopping mall. Resorts World Manila may earn 21 billion pesos ($430 million) in gambling revenue next year, compared with the city’s 17 billion pesos in 2008, according to Macquarie.

“This can create a lot of buzz and attract regional players into the Philippines,” said Manila-based CLSA Ltd. analyst Raffy Manalaysay. The project may also spur the government to “get moving” on its planned $20 billion casino resort complex on Manila Bay, he added.

Resorts World Manila, located in front of the capital’s new airport terminal, will draw 11.1 million visitors and raise $315 million in gambling taxes over three years, Sian said.

Visitor Arrivals

The Philippines had 3.14 million tourists in 2008 and that’s forecast to grow as much as 1.9 percent this year.

Travellers will probably make a 6.41 billion peso profit next year on sales of 23.04 billion pesos, Macquarie analysts Nadine Javellana, Edward Ong and Pomento said in an Aug. 10 report.

Sian, who declined to comment on Macquarie’s forecasts, said it’s possible to double Philippine tourism arrivals because the number is “very low.” Malaysia had 22 million visitors last year, Thailand had 14.3 million and Singapore 10.1 million.

“The whole idea for this kind of investment is to grow the market and not grab from the existing businesses,” Sian said. We have a product that we can market for tourists to come in a big way.”

The project, occupying part of a former military camp near Manila’s airport, will have three hotels with 1,574 rooms, a 30,000 square meter (323,000 square feet) casino and a 30,000 square meter shopping mall.

Philippine Casinos

The resort’s casino will have 300 tables and more than 1,000 slot machines by the end of the year, when all three floors will be ready, Sian said. The 100 tables ready today make it the Philippines’ biggest casino.

Philippine Amusement & Gaming Corp., the state-owned gambling operator as well as regulator, owns four casinos in Manila with 293 tables. Its biggest casino has 92 tables and Macquarie estimated it accounted for 20 percent of the company’s 30 billion peso revenue last year.

Travellers is one of four groups that won approval last year to build hotels and casinos at Philippine Amusement’s $20 billion Pagcor City on Manila Bay.

In Singapore, Las Vegas Sands Corp. is building the Marina Bay Sands casino resort, estimated to cost more than $5.25 billion, to compete with the S$6.6 billion ($4.6 billion) project being built by Malaysian casino operator Genting Bhd.

Star Cruises is controlled by Genting and its Chairman Lim Kok Thay, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Travellers is 50 percent owned by Star Cruises with the other half owned by Alliance Global and unit Megaworld Corp.

Sian said Travellers may start building its share of the Pagcor City project as early as next year. The venture last year committed to spend $1.1 billion to develop 91 acres in Pagcor City into a complex of hotels and a theme park.

“This is infrastructure that the country needs to grow its tourism traffic,” Sian said. “We need a product that’s comparable with the rest of the world.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Ian C. Sayson in Manila at isayson@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: August 28, 2009 03:15 EDT

adgaps

August 29th, 2009, 05:59 AM

^^ so, next year pa gagawin ang Warner Bros. Theme Park? ok.. let's just wait for it... :):)

at least we're sure that this project will really materialize.. :)

anonymous_filipino

August 29th, 2009, 11:20 AM

Guys, sino nakakaalam ng e-mail add ng PAGCOR. I have a suggestion for the financing of PAGCOR Tower's construction.

mphirez

August 29th, 2009, 12:29 PM

hello po, im a new user of this site gusto ko lang po malaman what are the true concept of bnp project? is this the same as the dubailand in dubai?

stanleymalls

August 29th, 2009, 05:47 PM

^^ In ways, they are. But in concept, they aren't.

BNP is more on entertaiment and gaming, while Dubailand is more on education, recreation & leisure.

ruralvillage

August 30th, 2009, 12:35 AM

Country’s largest casino opens in Nichols (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=/2009/august/29/news3.isx&d=/2009/august/29)
Manila Standard (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=/2009/august/29/news3.isx&d=/2009/august/29)
by Ian C. Sayson

REAL estate tycoon Andrew Tan and Star Cruises yesterday opened their $700-million Resorts World Manila, which will double the tables in the city and may boost its casino revenue by more than 120 percent.

“Our expectation is this will contribute to earnings within the first year of operations,” said Kingson Sian, president of Alliance Global Group Inc., the holding company of Tan, the country’s fourth-richest person.

The venture will tap Star Cruises’ network of more than 2.5-million customers and bus in people from outside Manila.

. . . .

Travellers is one of four groups that won approval last year to build hotels and casinos within the $20-billion Pagcor City on Manila Bay, a project of the government’s Philippine Amusement & Gaming Corp.

Sian said Travellers might start building its share of the project as early as next year. The venture last year committed to spend $1.1 billion to develop 36.8 hectares in Pagcor City into a complex of hotels with 3,400 rooms and a theme park.

Philippine Amusement, the casino regulator and state-owned casino operator, owns four casinos in Manila with a total of 293 tables, according to government data. Pagcor Pavilion, the state-owned company’s biggest casino, has 92 tables.

In Singapore, Las Vegas Sands Corp. is building the Marina Bay Sands casino resort, estimated to cost more than $5.25 billion, to compete with the $4.6-billion project being built by Malaysian casino operator Genting Bhd.

Star Cruises is controlled by Genting and its chairman Lim Kok Thay, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“This is infrastructure that the country needs to grow its tourism traffic,” Sian said. . .

:banana: :banana:

mphirez

August 30th, 2009, 12:32 PM

thanks stanleymalls,
Although dubailand having more fun to their visitor BNP offer a world class destinations
in south east asia. but im worry to say for this articles i found:
Rumors of 'Malaysia Disneyland'
By Laurence Lau

Could Disneyland be headed for Malaysia? If market insiders in Kuala Lumpur are to be believed, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, now in Japan for a five-day working trip, will meet with officials from Oriental Land, the Japanese partner for Tokyo Disneyland, with the aim of bringing Disneyland to Nusajaya. Nusajaya is a large "new township development", or planned city, near the Second Link (a bridge between Malaysia and Singapore) in southern Malaysia's Johor state, just across the Johor Strait from Singapore.

Though no official statement has been issued by any of the governments or companies involved, the rumors were lent credence by the fact that officials from UEM World, the biggest landowner in Nusajaya, were said to be accompanying Abdullah. The prime minister's contingent also reportedly includes Azman

Mokhtar, the managing director of Khazanah, which is UEM World's largest shareholder.

Abdullah is said to have already met with top Disney officials early this month, when he was attending the World Congress for Information Technology 2006 in the United States. A source at a top-three regional brokerage familiar with the Disneyland-Nusajaya overture believes that Abdullah's team is in Tokyo to make a serious pitch, with sweeteners that may include offering Disney an internationally competitive package of incentives. Should the pitch be successful, any announcement of Disney making an entry into Malaysia would improve dramatically the values of land near Nusajaya.

While the Disney rumblings are still at the level of rumor, sources say the rumor has a high level of reliability and a decent chance of success. The reports raise several immediate issues.

First, it is believed that Disney will be more positive for the project going ahead if Malaysia can rope in the Japanese operator as a partner. Oriental Land has an excellent track record with the company; its first park in Urayasu, Chiba prefecture, which opened in 1983, and the later addition DisneySea are both still highly successful. By engaging Oriental Land, Disney would have a higher chance of successful execution should the project get the go-ahead. Oriental Land's involvement would also ensure proper follow-through (execution) and a strict adherence to the firm's management style and operational culture. These issues, not just financial viability, are major concerns when it comes to the track record of Malaysian government-linked companies (GLCs), particularly given Disney's strong corporate culture.

Second, the implications for the perpetual, sibling-rivalry-like competition between Singapore and Malaysia are another aspect worth exploring. Some say the Disney overtures could be a retaliatory move on Malaysia's part after the recent disastrous talks over the construction of a new bridge for the causeway between the two countries. Over the past 12 months, Singapore has hogged the limelight in terms of big tourism projects with its huge integrated resort/casino projects at two sites in Marina Bay and Sentosa Island. The winning bidders for the two integrated resorts (IRs) paid a very steep price for their winning bids, but none managed to rope in Disney as partner, reportedly because Disney did not want to tarnish its wholesome image entering a partnership with a casino project. The likely winner for Marina Bay IR is likely to be either Harrah's or MGM, while Genting should get the Sentosa IR with Universal Studios as its partner.

A comparison between the Singapore IRs and the hypothesized Nusajaya Disney park is revealing. The winning IR bidders will have to cough up S$1.2 billion (US$758 million) for the Marina Bay IR and S$605 million for the Sentosa IR for the land alone. But should Disneyland decide to go to Nusajaya, chances are the land will be almost free. Not only that, a Disney park would benefit from tourists visiting the two IRs, in effect getting a free ride on Singapore's promotional efforts. Of the two, the attrition impact would be greater on the Sentosa project, since its Universal Studios theme park would inevitably be competing with, and be compared with, Disneyland just a couple of hours away - no contest, many would say, especially considering that a Disney facility would be able to price its products and services a lot cheaper.

Third, a Nusajaya Disneyland would seem to have excellent prospects with regard to critical market mass and the availability of transportation services. Any viability study would reveal the same factors that already successfully justified the initiation of the Marina Bay and Sentosa IR projects. In addition, there are two potential international landing strips in Johor, which would boost both the hypothetical park's prospects and those of such feeder airlines as AirAsia (the Kuala Lumpur-based low-cost carrier) and Malaysian Airlines.

AirAsia is already proving to be very successful in ferrying regional travelers at very attractive rates. Imagine the ability to offer routes from Phuket, Bangkok, Hat Yai (in southern Thailand), eastern Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bali or Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur or Johor Baru (Malaysia's second-largest city, adjacent to Singapore) for less than RM200 return ($55) - which is approximately AirAsia's current pricing structure. The availability of such low-cost air services could sway Disney's decision. Malaysia's population on its own is insufficient to justify a Disneyland, but the country's low-cost air connections and the additional traffic drawn from Singapore's IRs might be enough to seal the deal. One wonders whether AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes is also part of the Badawi contingent - he should be.

Fourth, the chances of the project being realized are greater given that Disney holds strong cards in terms of negotiating with Malaysian authorities, and the company is liable to be attracted to Nusajaya since it would have a sharply reduced "cannibalizing" effect on the firm's existing parks. Nusajaya has a huge land area, big enough for five or six Disneylands with space for resorts and hotels. Given that a Disney park would be crucial in giving Nusajaya the critical mass for success, Badawi and UEM World would probably agree to most of Disney's requests - which might include free land, a waiver of the requirement for 30% bumiputra (ethnic Malay) holdings, tax incentives, and so on.

From Disney's standpoint, it is running out of room to grow after the opening of Hong Kong Disney last year. A Nusajaya Disney would be far enough away from the locations in Hong Kong, Tokyo and a proposed Shanghai park to capture the regional crowd without cannibalizing the crowds at other regional Disneylands. It would be silly for Disney not to do the project.

In all probability, Singapore has inadvertently helped Malaysia to snare Disney for Nusajaya. However, the development would benefit both countries, and should not be used to score political points on either side of the Johor Strait.

do you think it could be the end of our dreams to have a disneyland in our own land?

in_a_rush

August 30th, 2009, 12:58 PM

JustHorace

August 30th, 2009, 04:00 PM

thanks stanleymalls,
Although dubailand having more fun to their visitor BNP offer a world class destinations
in south east asia. but im worry to say for this articles i found:
Rumors of 'Malaysia Disneyland'
By Laurence Lau

Wasn't this plan scrapped? Disney's aggressively pushing for a Shanghai location for their next theme park. What Malaysia had instead was Legoland. They're building it in Johor.

marchitecto

August 30th, 2009, 04:45 PM

kaboomerangle

August 30th, 2009, 05:18 PM

Guys, sino nakakaalam ng e-mail add ng PAGCOR. I have a suggestion for the financing of PAGCOR Tower's construction.
got this from their website:

info@pagcor.ph

antediluvianist

August 31st, 2009, 12:56 AM

I hope you also have a suggestion for how to make the Tower earn a positive return.

newgabskii

August 31st, 2009, 07:30 AM

More reasons for investors to feel good about Philippines!

PAGCOR POSTS P14.6B INCOME FOR 1ST HALF OF ‘09 (http://www.pagcor.ph/news/pagcor-income-2009.php)

WHILE the economic recession continues to plague financial institutions and businesses in various parts of the globe, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) showed signs of hope when it posted P14.6 billion in total revenue for the first semester of 2009.

Although not totally spared from the challenges of a gloomy economic outlook, the state-run gaming firm’s performance, according to PAGCOR chief Efraim C. Genuino is still remarkable given the huge impact of the financial crisis on almost any form of business.

“Everywhere in the world, there has been a sharp decline in customer spending due to the worsening economic situation. Las Vegas for instance, has been registering double digit losses since 2008 while Macau has been experiencing lower growth as compared to previous years.”

“On the other hand, PAGCOR’s unaudited total annual income for 2008, P29.61 billion, or 10 percent higher than the 2007 total income of P27.8 billion,” the PAGCOR chief reported.

In May 2009, Las Vegas gaming revenues were 16 percent lower from what was reported in the same period last year. Macau, meanwhile saw a drop of 12.4 percent in casino receipts for the first half of the year.

“In contrast, PAGCOR is still doing well. Although we fell short of our target during the first semester, the first two months of the second semester are giving us confidence that we shall reach, if not surpass, our income last year,” said Genuino.

The PAGCOR chief credits their continuing success to excellent customer service, win-win marketing strategies, business paradigm shift from mere casino gaming to total entertainment and the resiliency of its 12,000 strong workforce nationwide.

“Our employees and managers, whom we consider our greatest asset, are the reason why PAGCOR continues to weather economic storms,” Genuino said.
“Despite our record-breaking successes in the past, we have not stopped thinking of creative ways to attract more customers and boost the Corporation’s income. We have to be competitive amidst the crisis because it fuels the economy and funds the implementation of vital laws,” he adds.

A large sum of PAGCOR’s revenue is allotted to government-mandated contributions. Of the P14.6 billion income, a total of P6.92 billion was given to PAGCOR’s legally mandated beneficiaries such as the Philippine Sports Commission (P277 million) to fund sports development in the county; Board of Claims (P1.1 million) for victims of injustices; socio-civic programs under the Office of the President (P640 million); Early Childhood and Development Fund for the psychosocial development of preschool children in the country (P201 million); and other mandated government contributions (P3 million). Host cities of PAGCOR’s 13 casino branches nationwide received a total of P253 million.

The largest chunk of the P6.92 billion contribution (P5.55 billion) went to the national government in the form of government share and remittances to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

Genuino expressed optimism that PAGCOR can continue to surpass any economic challenge in the future. “We have seen the worst and yet we are doing well in this difficult time. With the right business strategy, we hope to even surpass this income revenue in the next semester.”

imanaddict

September 1st, 2009, 06:16 AM

I've been looking forward to this dev't for quite sometime now and I think it's been on the drawing board for nearly 5 years now. They've only recently started advertising in 2008. For any investors to seriously consider building hotels/casinos in E-City, the site should at least already have the infrastructure (sewerage, electricity, phones, etc.). None of these are present at the moment and all I see are rough roads and signages.

If PAGCOR wants to see this project flourish, I think they should adapt the field of dreams strategy (build it and they will come). Otherwise, it will all be "ningascugun". I admire how resortsworld and Newport kept their projects low-key - they put their words into action rather than the other way around.

Honestly, with the ways things look now and with the upcoming elections, this project may become the next NAIA Terminal 3. It may be started but it won't be completed until 2020. Even if they start developing the area now, it will take them 3 years to complete and another 2-3 years for the hotel operators to begin their own construction.

Let's hope that politics won't ruin this dream project as I think it will be a very strong economic booster for the country once done.

mphirez

September 1st, 2009, 10:43 AM

kung magkakaroon ng disneyland sa pilipinas.. matagal na matagal pa siguro. for one thing, nagtatayo lang ang Disneyland sa mga established ng tourist destination.. tama lang sa Malaysia since nasa 20million na ang tourist arrivals nila. sa pinas, wla pang 4M.. pataasin muna natin figures natin before dreaming of Disneyland. Kelangan din ng malawak na lupa for that theme park. Very limited ang lupa sa BNP at hindi kayang i-accomodate to. I was thinking pwede sa Subic or Clark, but then again.. hindi pa rin enough ang market. dagdag mo pa yung proximity ng Hongkong sa pilipinas..

cguro nga i think mga 2020 and beyond pa magka2roon ng disney ang pinas
mapili kasi si mickey but 4 me kahit ganoon man i always dreaming na ang pilipinas ay da2yuhin din more than a tourist desti. but also a central tourism of south east asia and world destinations hehe!! kaylan kaya: :ohno:

pau_p1

September 2nd, 2009, 04:52 AM

Wasn't this plan scrapped? Disney's aggressively pushing for a Shanghai location for their next theme park. What Malaysia had instead was Legoland. They're building it in Johor.

mukhang sobrang luma na yung article na yun about Disney Nasujaya... kasi from that article yung integrated resorts sa Sentosa at Marina Bay eh hindi pa tapos ang bidding... eh midway na kaya yung both projects na yun!

NicknameForLife

September 2nd, 2009, 02:04 PM

Narnian_King

September 2nd, 2009, 02:57 PM

^^ maaring dito ilagay... pero cguro d sa Shanghai... kasi meron nang Hongkong Disney Land (tama po ba<<<??) basta.... dito maganda ... kasi kung titingnan mo ang location natin... center siya.... malapit sa

Taiwan
China
Thailand
Indonesia
Singapore
Hongkong
Japan
Vietnam

mahigit ang mga bansang ito may mga 2-5 hour flight range..
o dba malapit sa ibang bansa.... kaya DITO SANA ITAYO!!!

Operator of Tokyo Disneyland is considering Shanghai as the newest location of disneyland.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=atloD.XOa_Dgmod=yahoo_hs

aranetacoliseum

September 3rd, 2009, 11:15 AM

from FORTUNE MAGAZINE (aug.31 2009 issue)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b304/fighter24/DSC00989.jpg

*cost estimated: $15 billion
*aruze corp: (okada resort manila bay,worlds largest oceanarium, theaters, giant ferris wheel, sports arena)

*Genting berhad grp. star cruises and alliance global: ( several hotels,world class theme park, museum, plus what is touted to be the tallest tower in the world)

*SM investment corp:( major luxury hotel, museum and sports arena all to be built at their mall of asia complex which joins part of the entertainment city area.

WELL, NOTHING NEW....hehe

NicknameForLife

September 3rd, 2009, 11:31 AM

^^ todo picture sila e wla namang nangyayari sa site....
pag may nakita akong mga dosenang poste dyan tuwa ko na....

stanleymalls

September 3rd, 2009, 02:53 PM

^^ Okay lang yan! At least sinabi na nila na, "All systems go!" :D :lol:

Jrommel

September 3rd, 2009, 04:19 PM

kelan pa nga kaya sisimulan yan..hanghang ngayon press release pa rin
ibahin pa sana nila disenyo ng pagcor tower..yun bang functional yung ibaba ng tower hindi lang pang-observe..

flymordecai

September 3rd, 2009, 07:06 PM

^^ Okay lang yan! At least sinabi na nila na, "All systems go!" :D :lol:

It says at the top that it's an advertisement so it's not a news article but an ad to market the city. :lol:

Ecija

September 5th, 2009, 02:10 AM

kelan pa nga kaya sisimulan yan..hanghang ngayon press release pa rin
ibahin pa sana nila disenyo ng pagcor tower..yun bang functional yung ibaba ng tower hindi lang pang-observe..

gawin na lang sanang exhibit hall yung ibaba, na pwedeng gamitin sa mga trade expo.

adgaps

September 5th, 2009, 06:09 AM

gawin na lang sanang exhibit hall yung ibaba, na pwedeng gamitin sa mga trade expo.

^^ nice suggestion... pwede yan kung talagang malawak yung bottom part ng Tower... :)

count_me_in

September 5th, 2009, 11:19 AM

For this and the source, ÜBER SALAMAT!!! :bow: :master:

Because of Singapore. They had an agreement with Genting Berhad that US will not be constructed on any other ASEAN country in 30 years other than Singapore.

But I'll be glad if Genting will build Warner Bros. Park here. :D

Guys check out Resorts World Sentosa.... I'll Post some picture.. later....

Jrommel

September 7th, 2009, 12:56 AM

gawin na lang sanang exhibit hall yung ibaba, na pwedeng gamitin sa mga trade expo.

pag ganyan sigurong kataas na straktura ay malawak din ang pundasyon/pinakababa para mas matibay

hecky12

September 8th, 2009, 10:29 AM

^^ todo picture sila e wla namang nangyayari sa site....
pag may nakita akong mga dosenang poste dyan tuwa ko na....

i can see cranes from aguinaldo blvd(coastal road) near coastal mall.. siguro yun na yun..

adgaps

September 8th, 2009, 11:19 AM

i can see cranes from aguinaldo blvd(coastal road) near coastal mall.. siguro yun na yun..

^^ we can't be sure... since there's also an under-construction condo in the area, perhaps part of the Sole Mare project...

antediluvianist

September 8th, 2009, 08:23 PM

Pagcor being pressured to pay P6.8Billion to the Nat'l. Gov't.

http://www.bworldonline.com/BW090909/content.php?src=1&id=046

hecky12

September 9th, 2009, 02:11 AM

^^ we can't be sure... since there's also an under-construction condo in the area, perhaps part of the Sole Mare project...

thats not the one im talking to.. yung sole mare is along bradco ave near the church yun.. nakikita ko rin yugn cranes na yun.. yung tinutukoy ko e malapit mismo sa mia road coastal mall.

adgaps

September 9th, 2009, 03:46 AM

^^ then most likely sa E-city na nga yang mga cranes na yan...

i'm just wondering kung tuluy-tuloy pa rin ang activities dun kahit sa ganitong panahong ulan nang ulan... perhpas kaya hindi pa rin nagsisimula ang construction ay dahil hindi pa matapos-tapos ang ibang activities dahil sa mga pag-ulan...

jaygold06

September 9th, 2009, 07:41 AM

May mga nakikita na din akong dump truck at cranes within the area pag nadadaan ako tapos pinapatag na yung ibang lugar at ginagawang kalsada papasok sa loob nung site. Napansin ko din yung mga poster na nakalagay sa mga poste ng ilaw dati parang nawala ngayon binalik na ulit..

mphirez

September 9th, 2009, 10:17 AM

ask question lang po how do i post pics here? i try but http:// is needed

ormocanon

September 9th, 2009, 10:20 AM

May mga nakikita na din akong dump truck at cranes within the area pag nadadaan ako tapos pinapatag na yung ibang lugar at ginagawang kalsada papasok sa loob nung site.
That only means one thing: HORIZONTAL SITE DEVELOPMENT! :banana:

DCRJ

September 9th, 2009, 11:46 AM

ask question lang po how do i post pics here? i try but http:// is needed

you may upload the photos at photobucket.com then copy paste the link with the .....photo link.....

adgaps

September 9th, 2009, 02:50 PM

That only means one thing: HORIZONTAL SITE DEVELOPMENT! :banana:

^^ and they've been doing so for some weeks or months now...

no vertical developments yet... like diggings for some building's foundation or something like that...

hecky12

September 10th, 2009, 03:50 AM

so much cranes in the reclamation area now unlike before..

mphirez

September 10th, 2009, 11:57 AM

you may upload the photos at photobucket.com then copy paste the link with the

thank you po!!!!!
:):):)

mphirez

September 10th, 2009, 12:26 PM

Hey Guys Read this article it make you proud for our country:

The following skyscrapers are either approved or due to be completed in the near future:

* Construction of the Burj Dubai is underway in Dubai. Its exact height is expected to be 818 m (2,684 ft) high, making it the tallest building in the world. The Burj Dubai is due to be completed in September 2009.
* Construction of the Pagcor Tower started in 2009, and when finished it will be the second tallest free-standing structure in the world with a height of 665 meters, it will be located at the manila bay near Mall of ASIA,by the project of PAGCOR.

* Construction of the Shanghai Tower started on 29 November 2008. The tower will be 632 m (2,073 ft) high and have 127 floors. The building will feature a glass curtain wall and nine indoor gardens when it is completed in 2014.
* Construction has started for a skyscraper in Moscow to be completed in 2012. The Russia Tower, standing at 612 m (2,008 ft) with 118 floors, will be the tallest building in Europe when completed. It will also be the tallest naturally ventilated building in the world.
* Construction has started for a 610 m (2,001 ft) skyscraper in Chicago, estimated to be completed in 2012. The Chicago Spire, with 150 floors, will be the second tallest residential building in the world. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, it will also hold the title of North America’s tallest free-standing structure.
* 1 World Trade Center is now under construction and is the tallest tower comprising the redevelopment of the site of the former World Trade Center following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Its antenna will reach a height of 541.4 m (1,776 ft), a height representing the year of the United States Declaration of Independence.
* The Port Tower is a building planned for Karachi, the financial capital of Pakistan, with the collaboration of local and foreign investors, in association with the Karachi Port Trust. When completed, the new structure will be 1,947 ft (593 m) high. The height of the tower has a special significance, representing the year Pakistan gained independence.
* The APIIC Tower is a building planned for Hyderabad, India. At 450 m (1,476 ft) it would be the tallest building in South Asia upon completion in 2010.
* The 318 m (1,043 ft) Tour Generali in Paris La Défense, scheduled to be completed in 2011, is an entirely green building office skyscraper that is set to be the tallest building in Paris and in the European Union.
* Construction of the Shard London Bridge, also known as the Shard of Glass or London Bridge Tower, started in March 2009. At 310 m (1,017 ft), it is set to be the tallest building in London and the United Kingdom and the tallest in the European Union.

antediluvianist

September 10th, 2009, 12:47 PM

"Construction of the Pagcor Tower started in 2009"

They don't even have the financing yet.

DCRJ

September 11th, 2009, 02:43 AM

hecky12

September 11th, 2009, 04:28 AM

baka yung sinasabing started in 2009 e.. baka ang gusto nilang sabihin dun it will start within 2009...

newgabskii

September 11th, 2009, 04:45 AM

"Construction of the Pagcor Tower started in 2009"

They don't even have the financing yet.

they did now.. genting bombarded an intitial $300M at the ecity...

antediluvianist

September 11th, 2009, 09:12 AM

That's not for the tower.

adverg

September 11th, 2009, 09:19 AM

^^Maybe a regional politics encroach for the delay of this project, who knows....since it comprises of international investors, tourism popularity does not favor to divert into the Philippines.

RonnieR

September 11th, 2009, 10:06 AM

I have faith in this project.

c6josh

September 11th, 2009, 12:22 PM

the project looks very promising but elections is just around the corner maybe the funds will be diverted for election campaign expenses.

newgabskii

September 11th, 2009, 12:50 PM

the project looks very promising but elections is just around the corner maybe the funds will be diverted for election campaign expenses.

the invested money is transferred bank to bank how come anyone in the government can get it since it is on the account of a private firm? :)?:bash:
learn the basics of being an investor... :)

lanrocksea

September 11th, 2009, 01:33 PM

Pagcor is self liquidating, though fully owned by the government (see http://www.pagcor.ph/entertainment/faqs.html) there is still vulnerability towards asset management.

and then there's the Private Companies who expressed their intentions in BNP (Aruze and Genting) so like RonnieR mentioned, i too have faith in this project.

mphirez

September 11th, 2009, 02:55 PM

ask ko lang kung tuloy pa po ba ung proposed 665m ng pagcor tower o it will down to 300m tulad ng mga nababasa ko sa mga article. response pls.

stanleymalls

September 11th, 2009, 09:33 PM

^^ We never know. Gaya nga ng sabi ng ibang forumers, kahit wag nang mataas na tower, basta yung never before seen architecture na talagang mapapanganga ka. :lol: :lol:

Nasa MM Rumors Thread yung article eh.....

No, seriously. We need futuristic, modern, abstract, deconstructive, imaginative, alomst impossible architecture. Dun natin mababawi yung sana'y honor and glory ng PAGCOR Tower. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Pero sana ituloy nila yung Manila Eye. :D

mphirez

September 12th, 2009, 02:41 PM

mphirez

September 12th, 2009, 02:51 PM

antediluvianist

September 14th, 2009, 02:55 AM

j.r.

September 14th, 2009, 04:09 PM

Pero sana ituloy nila yung Manila Eye. :D
^^^^what's the manila eye? is it similar to the london eye, o pareho lang ng pangalan?

manila_eye

September 14th, 2009, 05:06 PM

^^ similar to london eye but it is semi-submerged underwater.

jefflacs

September 14th, 2009, 06:25 PM

Hmm dito na lang kaya nila ilagay yung bid ng Krezner sa Sentosa IR project? para hinde masayang yung mga pinaghirapan nila hehehe :lol:

j.r.

September 14th, 2009, 09:32 PM

^^ similar to london eye but it is semi-submerged underwater.

^^^^ahh... thx!!

stanleymalls

September 15th, 2009, 06:01 PM

"No, seriously. We need futuristic, modern, abstract, deconstructive, imaginative, alomst impossible architecture. Dun natin mababawi yung sana'y honor and glory ng PAGCOR Tower."

[QUOTE=antediluvianist;43048568]Above all, is economics. Buildings and projects must be seen to earn- under conservative, reasonable assumptions - a return much higher than the money market, because the risk in these projects is much higher than the money market, and risk and return always go together.

Yep. I just said that so that we can think of ideas out of the box and not just plain designs like this and that. Demand = supply.

Under what assumptions can that Tower earn a significant positive return? What is the likelihood of those assumptions being realized? How many paying visitors, paying how much, what interest rate for the financing, in what currency will the financing be, if in forex- what the depreciation of the Peso, what will the cash flow be like?, the insurance costs, restaurant-will there be a restaurant?- receipts, etc. etc. etc.

Maybe from the observation deck. Or from the hall below it. Or the rotating restaurant in its off-center part. Or they can make it a TV and radio tower. There are many ways to make it very good for more than just a tower.

It's not just a matter of: Wow a 655 meter Tower ! Or even a 300 meter Tower.

If they can't pursue the tower, make the architecture mind-blowing. :D

Those guys behind this Tower did not even forsee the NAIA height limit. What kind of homework have these guys done, what is the quality of their DETAIL work? Must be pretty bad.

Its as if they disregarded the proximity of the site in an airport. Or they must be thinking that the main gateway be transferred to DMIA in the near future.

Same goes for the Manila Eye, and all the buildings/hospitals/train stations etc. |planned" to be put up there.

All-in-one concept.

Many big projects succeed, but only because of good, DETAILED, planning which includes the proof of economic viability and the financing. C'mon Pagcor, do your homework !

I think they are waiting for everything to be at its normal so that they can proceed with the construction. The economic atmosphere is slightly gloomy until now, IMHO.

imanaddict

September 16th, 2009, 03:11 AM

watcher09

September 16th, 2009, 11:48 AM

Well said antediluvianist. I've been hearing about this project for about 3-4 years now and yet progress has been on a snail's pace. I believe that this project will push through, although it will take time(years). However, placing economics in the equation and business viability, the main challenge would be maintaining the structure and keeping it good as new.

A megastructure as proposed will not be able self-liquidating, rather, it will be subsidized by the city tax payments.

I don't understand. Why would it be subsidized by city tax payments? It is not a project of the national nor the local government. Only the Bagong Nayong Pilipino Theme Park is government owned.

Depending on the facilities a megastructure can offer, it can generate income to sustain its maintenance. This huge project has been on the planning stage for years, such that, it is to be construed that they are considering things in details. Even the renderings have been changed.

antediluvianist

September 16th, 2009, 12:18 PM

"This huge project has been on the planning stage for years, such that, it is to be construed that they are considering things in details."

Well, not necessarily. Imprecision can easily extend over many years. I know a consultant of that Pagcor City project. He tells me what is going on. No, it's not a precision job. Major changes keep being made - gross changes. Good luck, Pagcor.

in_a_rush

September 17th, 2009, 11:18 AM

before, i use to think that antediluvianist is just a critic of Pagcor city. like sloanesquare to Ayala (peace dude!) he also mentions Pagcor city negatively in other thread even if there is no relations at all (peace) now i know where the negativity and hatred to Genuino is coming from. you have an insider pala and you know what the real score is. Care to share to us what those gross changes are???

honestly, tinamad na rin akong sundan ang project na to. Ok sana kung matayo siya pero kung hindi naman ok lang din. kung may matayo man, kahit hindi kasing grand as they promised.. ok lang din. nothing wrong with lowering your expectations para hindi ma-disappoint sa dulo.

naughtycalboy

September 17th, 2009, 04:44 PM

may nightmare ako kagabi:colgate:. napaginipan ko ba naman ang PagCor Tower, ang bilis one week lang eh 1/4 na ang natapos nila. kala ko totoo na!

sloanesquare

September 18th, 2009, 10:07 AM

before, i use to think that antediluvianist is just a critic of Pagcor city. like sloanesquare to Ayala (peace dude!) your .

no worries..i'm going through the new restos at Greenbelt 5 at the moment and its a good spot. i noticed that workers are painting the exterior of the former site of Max Brenner an outrageous orange colour..no doubt its only the first coating..but if it remains orange..............

playfish

September 22nd, 2009, 06:21 AM

hi guys.. i'm new to posting but i've been with you for about 10 months already... i just can't stop myself of holding this information...

try to visualize the concept..

Aruze Corp

Casino:
20,000sqm(For the general public)
1,500sqm "Sky Casino" on top of the hotel (VIPs)

Hotel:
33 floors or 130m above the ground
2,000 guest rooms (110 - 180 sqm / room)
standard rooms (55 - 60 sqm / room)
with led decors on all parts of the structure
city view and sunset view

Villas:
400 sqm
private pool
jacuzzi

Restaurant:
Buffet Restaurant
"Open kitchen concept"
chinese, japanese, french gourmet along a poolside bar

Convention Hall:
facing the ocean
3,000 sqm floor area

Aquarium:
20,000 sqm floor area
one of the largest acrylic panels
dolphin shows
fish tank diving for public
tours on behind the scene of the acquarium

Kids Land:
fun town
kids will experience 70 occupations in 50 workplaces(pavilions)
educational purposes

Pools:
VIP pool
general public pool (outdoors) will feature "cabanas" (the first in manila)

Spas:
4,700 sqm floor area
@ the 3rd floor of the bldg
to be one of the largest in south east asia
garden spa, masssage room, four lane fitness pool, etc

Ferris Weel:
to be built at the entrance of the casino resort
will be constructed within a dome situated on a mound of earth
* underwater dip is changed to dome (sorry)

Grand Opening: 2013

from a press release of aruze :) at their site

naughtycalboy

September 22nd, 2009, 06:31 AM

^^links?

playfish

September 22nd, 2009, 06:34 AM

^^links?

i forgot.. now here it is :)
http://www.aruze.com/en/company/companyinfo/profile2009_pdf/all.pdf
pp 14 :)

archerfish

September 22nd, 2009, 09:08 AM

start at pp 20

mphirez

September 22nd, 2009, 11:14 AM

hey guyz ask ko lang kasi ang aruze and SM may final renders na sila ng project nila ung sa genting is tower only but what about the theme park and hotels na kasama sa prinopose nila?

DCRJ

September 22nd, 2009, 11:22 AM

i forgot.. now here it is :)
http://www.aruze.com/en/company/companyinfo/profile2009_pdf/all.pdf
pp 14 :)

I took some screenshots from the link

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx229/dcrjmed2014/aruze.jpg

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx229/dcrjmed2014/aruze1.jpg

I hope their 135 meters tall Ferris Wheel gets approved by the officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP)...there's no updated article on the issue yet.

mphirez

September 22nd, 2009, 11:56 AM

guys look for the wikipedia about universal studios makikita nyo dun Universal Studios Philippines in Manila kaso wlang article that been added about this eh

pulsephaze22

September 22nd, 2009, 12:54 PM

^^ as we all know, anyone can edit wikipedia,.so it's obvious gawa lang ng over-excited na spectator ng project na to yung nakita mo, :nuts:

naughtycalboy

September 22nd, 2009, 02:14 PM

loving the pool at aruze project.

pau_p1

September 22nd, 2009, 03:43 PM

well it seems that the ferris wheel will not be as huge as we are expecting huh...

stanleymalls

September 22nd, 2009, 05:11 PM

I took some screenshots from the link

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx229/dcrjmed2014/aruze.jpg

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx229/dcrjmed2014/aruze1.jpg

I hope their 135 meters tall Ferris Wheel gets approved by the officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP)...there's no updated article on the issue yet.

Thanks!!! :bow: :master: :banana: :banana: :banana: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

playfish

September 22nd, 2009, 06:13 PM

I took some screenshots from the link

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx229/dcrjmed2014/aruze.jpg

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx229/dcrjmed2014/aruze1.jpg

I hope their 135 meters tall Ferris Wheel gets approved by the officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP)...there's no updated article on the issue yet.

^^
no actual details for the wheel's height is provided as of the moment.
the 135m is the height of the hotel...
:)

pi_malejana

September 22nd, 2009, 08:29 PM

hmm, mukhang di magiging maganda ang view ng ferris wheel ah... based on the renders, mukhang yung view sa bay will be blocked by the hotel??:dunno:

DCRJ

September 23rd, 2009, 09:17 AM

^^
no actual details for the wheel's height is provided as of the moment.
the 135m is the height of the hotel...
:)

well, they say the ferris wheel will be about 135m tall while the hotels and condominiums are 100m tall

here's the link --> http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/14503-height-limit-a-problem-for-proposed-structures-at-pagcor-city.html

mphirez

September 23rd, 2009, 09:43 AM

^^ as we all know, anyone can edit wikipedia,.so it's obvious gawa lang ng over-excited na spectator ng project na to yung nakita mo, :nuts:

ganon bah pero ano ba talga final renditions ng genting kasi aruze at sm meron na...genting wala pa

playfish

September 23rd, 2009, 09:58 AM

well, they say the ferris wheel will be about 135m tall while the hotels and condominiums are 100m tall

here's the link --> http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/14503-height-limit-a-problem-for-proposed-structures-at-pagcor-city.html

try to note the official press release of the auze website...
its the hotel not the wheel :)

http://www.aruze.com/en/company/comp...09_pdf/all.pdf

naughtycalboy

September 23rd, 2009, 10:34 AM

from two buildings to one.

mphirez

September 23rd, 2009, 10:51 AM

A sign on a dirt track points the way to Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City, an empty expanse of Manila landfill right now that is being developed into a gamblers' nirvana of slot machines, roulette wheels and card tables.

Construction is set to start early next year on a Las Vagas-style strip on 150 hectares of reclaimed land overlooking Manila's famous bay. Bulldozers and other earth moving equipment are already preparing the thicket-covered land.

The Philippines is among several Asian countries, including Singapore, using the pulling power of casinos to launch entertainment infrastructure to boost tourism.

With big-name foreign and local investors signed up, government-backed Bagong Nayong - Tagalog for New City - is finally in play after several years on the drawing board. The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, or Pagcor, the government's gambling regulator, is handling the project.

Its headquarters on the fifth floor of the Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila in the city's Malate tourist belt have the rarefied look of a well-heeled corporation in the private sector, worlds apart from the usually dowdy government offices here..

But then Pagcor, which operates 13 casinos dotted around the country, is the second biggest contributor to the treasury after tax payers. Its revenue last year totalled 25 billion pesos (RM1.8 billion).

A few floors below the suite of executive offices, punters are hunched over roulette tables or tap away at the banks of jackpot slot machines. It is four in the afternoon and the place is humming.

Foreigners, at a glance, seem to outnumber the locals. Like their neighbours, Filipinos are passionate gamblers, though with a third of the nation living in poverty, cockfighting, lotteries and illegal numbers
games are the flutters of the masses.

Pagcor's president Rafael Butch Francisco, a business consultant by profession, told The Straits Times that the government will declare Bagong Nayong an economic tourism zone before the end of the year. This,
he explained, will enable the three private groups that have so far been given casino licenses to get substantial tax breaks and other incentives for their investment in the project.

Each investor has put up non-refundable deposits of US$100 million), showing that serious money to develop the area is on the table.

"So construction should start in the first quarter of 2008," said Francisco.

Malaysian resort-casino specialists Genting International has tied up with a local company owned by property tycoon Andrew Tan. He was ranked the fourth-richest Filipino with an estimated worth of US$1.1 billion by Forbes magazine last year. The joint venture is taking 40ha, and their US$1 billion concept includes a Warner Brothers theme park.

Japan's Aruze Corporation, which makes gaming machines, plans to build a 2,000-room hotel-casino called the Okada Resort Manila Bay on a 30ha site that will include an oceanarium and a bird's-eye view ferris wheel.

Philippine retailing giant SM Investments has a 30ha site close to its Mall of Asia, the world's third-largest shopping centre.

Some big wheels in the gambling industry, including American casino operator Steve Wynn and Australia's James Packer, have reportedly taken a look at Bagong Nayong and passed for now.

The Philippines can be a hard sell. Concerns over corruption and lack of transparency, coupled with red tape, have long been blamed as barriers to doing business here by foreign chambers of commerce.

As the gambling regulator, Pagcor was able to cut the red tape - and so far there has not been a whiff of scandal over the project. "We want our investors to be comfortable, and above all make money here," said Francisco.

The terms call for a partial opening of all three projects by end-2010, though Bagong Nayong may take 10 years - and as many billions of dollars - to finish.

On paper at least, a casino-led entertainment strip with hotels, restaurants, shows, shops, leisure parks and convention centres overlooking Manila Bay should be a sizable tourist draw.

But despite its many charms, this country attracted only three million visitors last year, less than a sixth of arrivals in neighbouring Malaysia. Still, growth from East Asia, Bagong Nayong's target market, is rising, with arrivals from China up 18 per cent in the first half of this year.

Pagcor is counting on the famed friendliness of Filipinos to make the development stand out. "You can never go wrong with our hospitality," said Francisco.

Still, some worry there already are too many casino ventures in the pipeline in South-east Asia, and that the meltdown on global financial markets could cause some to be pulled or pushed back.

Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines are all building, or planning to build, large integrated casino-resorts. Japan and Taiwan are expected to legalise gambling, possibly next year in the
case of Japan, while South Korea seems to be warming to the idea.

What is more, Macau, which has now overtaken Las Vegas in gambling revenues, is building hotel-casinos as fast as it can on reclaimed land at Cotai.

So will there be enough to go round? The answer seems to be "yes".

A recent PricewaterhouseCoppers' report on global gaming identified Asia-Pacific as the industry's fastest growth market. Its authors predict gambling revenue in the region surging to US$37.2 billion in 2012, just
over double last year's level.

The Catholic Church in this mainly Christian country has put up less resistance than might be imagined given its opposition to gambling. Three bishops - albeit retired ones, it has to be said - even blessed Bagong Nayong's ceremonial ground breaking in April.

"We've been trying to assure the Church for the past two years that there is not going to be casinos in every corner of this development," said Francisco.

The government badly needs the tax income for budget support. It will get 25 per cent of the take from gambling and 5 per cent on non-gaming revenues. Both, however, are well below the Philippine corporate tax rate of 35 per cent.

As for the 40,000 Filipinos to be employed in the entertainment complexes, they will be paid international salaries under the terms of the operating licenses. These, said Francisco, would be on a par with Singapore and Macau. - Straits Times

DCRJ

September 24th, 2009, 03:15 AM

Bay clean-up project to be bid out
http://www.bworldonline.com/BW091509/bay.jpg

Sept. 15, 2009
MALACAÑANG WANTS the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to bid out the billion-peso Manila Bay clean-up project before the Arroyo administration steps down in June 2010.

Manila Bay As such, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, through Executive Order (EO) 829, created a DENR-led task force to focus on cleaning the polluted bay.

"The task force will fast-track the bay clean-up project, similar to the Pasig River Rehabilitation Committee, so that it could be bid out before June 2010," the President said in her EO.

The project is expected to cost P3.8 billion.

Under the EO, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) was also directed to include the clean-up project in its plan to build a Manila Bay Tourism City Resort and Entertainment Complex.

http://www.bworldonline.com/BW091509/content.php?id=074

FlashCollider

September 24th, 2009, 03:46 AM

With big-name foreign and local investors signed up, government-backed Bagong Nayong - Tagalog for New City -

Bagong Nayon means New Town. Lungsod is City.

pau_p1

September 24th, 2009, 04:46 AM

well forgive the writer... he seemed to be a foreigner...:D I hope we get the link where that article came from.

DCRJ

September 24th, 2009, 08:46 AM

well forgive the writer... he seemed to be a foreigner...:D I hope we get the link where that article came from.

that article is so old news, Oct. 2008 to be exact and was already posted in this thread many pages ago. for those who haven't read it yet here's the link --> http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?sec=2&id=2036

watcher09

September 24th, 2009, 10:23 AM

Bagong Nayon means New Town. Lungsod is City.

No pal...Town is Bayan. Yes, Lungsod is City, but Nayon is Village.

RonnieR

September 24th, 2009, 11:12 AM

^^ I like the Aruze project esp. the hotel.

FlashCollider

September 24th, 2009, 11:20 AM

No pal...Town is Bayan. Yes, Lungsod is City, but Nayon is Village.

Barangay is Village and not Nayon. Kanayunan means sa bayanan which is Town.

NicknameForLife

September 25th, 2009, 12:10 PM

^^ bka maraming magalit sa sasabihin ko....

Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City Manila....

the meaning is....

The New "Nayong Pilipino" Entertainment City Manila

d na po ita-translate ang Nayong Pilipino... kasi ito ung attraction na malapit sa NAIA na ililipat sa Manila Bay.....

hirap kasing ipaliwanag eh... hehehe :nuts::nuts::nuts:

-----------
kung ako lang po ang gagawa ng project na yan... dapat
Manila Bay Tourism City Resort and Entertainment Complex na lang...

watcher09

September 25th, 2009, 01:22 PM

Barangay is Village and not Nayon. Kanayunan means sa bayanan which is Town.

Nope! I'm a true Tagalog and we refer village as nayon or barangay. That's why Barangay Hall is called "Bahay-Nayon" and municipal hall as Bahay Pamahalaan ng Bayan ng so and so. People will ask "Ilan ang nayon sa bayan ninyo?" This is also the reason why the old hotel near the Nayong Pilipino was called as Philippine Village Hotel. Bayan which can also be the center of the town or poblacion has been compared to nayon differently in the folk song "Sa Libis Ng Nayon" which is mostly characterized by farm and countryside. From this difference came the terms "Taga-bayan" which is more civilized than "Taga-nayon" which is also called as taga-bukid or taga-aplaya.

koreanboy

September 25th, 2009, 05:16 PM

pati ba naman yan ay pagalingan pa ,simple lang .ililipat ang NAYONG PILIPINO MULA SA PARANAQUE PAPUNTANG MANILA BAY ,na kung saan gagawin lang syang entertainment city na dati 'y park lang ngayon pasugalan na ,tama ba?hindi na kailangan kung village,barangay,munisipyo,lungsod kung san saan lang kau napunta.:bash::bash::bash::cheers::cheers::cheers:

FlashCollider

September 25th, 2009, 11:45 PM

Nope! I'm a true Tagalog and we refer village as nayon or barangay. That's why Barangay Hall is called "Bahay-Nayon" and municipal hall as Bahay Pamahalaan ng Bayan ng so and so. People will ask "Ilan ang nayon sa bayan ninyo?" This is also the reason why the old hotel near the Nayong Pilipino was called as Philippine Village Hotel. Bayan which can also be the center of the town or poblacion has been compared to nayon differently in the folk song "Sa Libis Ng Nayon" which is mostly characterized by farm and countryside. From this difference came the terms "Taga-bayan" which is more civilized than "Taga-nayon" which is also called as taga-bukid or taga-aplaya.

hehehe I think may variation tayo ng interpretation. Tagalog din ako hehehe. May variation lang talaga. :):)

antediluvianist

September 26th, 2009, 01:56 AM

It is not really necessary to quibble about the exact translation.

In this particular case, "Bagong Nayon" means "Puting Elepante".

filcan

September 26th, 2009, 03:22 AM

^^But it hasn't even been built yet. It's only a white elephant if it gets built and becomes an utter financial, economic failure...which I doubt this project will become.

antediluvianist

September 26th, 2009, 05:36 AM

Well, you can continue to believe in "The Second Tallest Tower in the World" and "The Manila Eye That Goes Underwater" if you want to. I don't think they will ever be built.
Some casinos and hotels are possible, but those things already exist elsewhere, for instance at Newport City.

OK, maybe you are right: a white elephant has to be built already. So, it's a mirage.

ruralvillage

September 28th, 2009, 12:23 AM

Belle Corp, SM reach deal on P14-billion gaming project (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=509117&publicationSubCategoryId=66)
By Zinnia B. Dela Peña (The Philippine Star (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=509117&publicationSubCategoryId=66)) Updated September 28, 2009 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - Leisure developer and gaming firm Belle Corp. has struck a deal with the SM Group to take charge of the gaming component of a project within the Bagong Nayong Entertainment City that will require an investment
of around P14 billion.

The SM Group is one of the major investors in the 120-hectare Bagong Nayong Pilipino Manila Bay Entertainment City, which is envisioned to become the country’s biggest tourism development and the government’s biggest job-generating project ever.

In a disclosure to the Philippine stock Exchange (PSE), Belle said its board has approved a proposal to acquire from SM Commercial Properties Inc. the entire outstanding capital stock of Premium Leisure and Amusement Inc. (PLAI), a member of a consortium of companies which was granted a provisional license by the Philippine Amusement & Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) to develop a world-class entertainment and gaming hub along Manila Bay.

The acquisition will be done through a share swap, subject to the approval of regulatory authorities.

Under the plan, Belle will be issuing 2.7 billion common shares in exchange for 100-percent ownership of PLAI.

“The final terms of the share swap, however, will be set forth in a memorandum of agreement to be executed by the parties,” Belle said.

With the acquisition, Belle will now be handling the gaming operations of the project such as the setting up of a casino and other gaming facilities while the SM Group will be providing the entertainment facilities which include hotels, a sports arena, museum, and an oceanarium.

The SM-Belle project is estimated to cost at least $1 billion. Included in the new entertainment complex is the already-developed section spanning about 300 hectares that contains the sprawling Mall of Asia complex.

Belle is open to partnering with foreign and local entities to help develop a reclaimed land along Manila Bay into a mini-Las Vegas.

“These arrangements shall be subject to Pagcor’s supervision in accordance with the terms of the provincial license,”

The Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City will house an integrated resort with a world-class theme park, casinos, residential areas, shopping malls, fine dining restaurants, and other leisure activities.

When completed, it is expected to boost tourist arrivals in the country to over three million annually, generate 450,000 new jobs and dramatically increase government earnings.

Aside from the SM group, other investors in the multi-billion dollar project are Malaysian conglomerate Genting Group and Alliance Global Group Inc. of tycoon Andrew Tan.

AGI has forged a joint venture with international cruise operator Star Cruises Ltd., an affiliate of the Genting Group, to build an integrated tourism zone on a 40-hectare property in the reclamation area.

The project will host an array of leisure and entertainment facilities, including a theme park, theaters, amusement and cultural centers, retail and gaming centers and hotels.