Japanese to build world’s 2nd highest tower in QC

JAPAN’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is said to be interested in buying Manila Seedling Bank Foundation Inc.’s seven-hectare property on Edsa and Quezon Avenue in Quezon City for P100,000 a square meter to put up the second tallest tower in the world.

City administrator Victor Endriga says Mitsubishi’s representatives met with him and Mayor Herbert Bautista to discuss their plan to build the tower that will house telecommunications companies, radio and television networks , commercial establishments and restaurants.

“If things get going, the tower offer will be the world’s second tallest next to Tokyo’s [634-meter] Sky Tree,” Endriga told the Manila Standard.

He said Mitsubishi showed Bautista a blueprint of its plan to transform the Manila Seedling Bank property into an eco-tourism hub under a public-private partnership.

“The mayor was overwhelmed,” Endriga said. Apart from theP7 billion in projected income from the sale of Manila Seedling Bank, Endriga said, the city was anticipating a bigger business tax collection once the telecommunications tower started operations.

“We will not spend a single centavo,” he said.

City officials were surprised when the Mitsubishi executives arranged an appointment with them, Endriga said.

“It came to their knowledge that the nursery and seedling bank was auctioned off to the city in 2010 and on July 6, 2011,” he said.

“Manila Seedling owed the city government P42 million in real-property taxes,” he said.

“We believe it does not have the money to pay us until July 6.” Rio N. Araja

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews_mstd.htm?f=//2012/March/10/news6.isx&n=news&d=/2012/March/10

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

Katabi ba ito ng walang nangyayari QCBD?

Another tower? Here we go again. :)

I just wish it was somewhere that could benefit and enhance an already existing skyline like Makati's or BGC's. A tower would also look good in Manila's bay skyline (not necessarily in the height restricted PAGCOR city).

pag built na saka palang dapat i declare, kong 6 billion ang lote baka hingin ni bistek at company ay 6 billion or more or else NO PROJECT AT ALL

anu ba height ng burj dubai?

ang height nito between 601-633m

ang tokyo sky see -634m
canton tower -600m

alam ko ang height ng Burj dubai -830m

base dito
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

Pangalanan natin.

How about "Nakamura Tower"?

baka nga mitsubishi tower

nakamura tower :)

but this comment on facebook bothers me.. which is true.. take a look on this...

How can Mitsubishi, a Japanese company, BUY said property let alone BUILD a tower when Philippine Law prohibits this? The usual "lets jump the gun and make the announcement before ink is even put to paper" notwithstanding, I feel these government officials may be in for a huge disappointment.

I've just remembered a height restriction on the Metro that we've forgot.. hope that our officials don't bother this.. :lol:

Nakarimutan Tower. :D

How can Mitsubishi, a Japanese company, BUY said property let alone BUILD a tower when Philippine Law prohibits this?

I think, that is not always the case. They allow 100% foreign investments in some industries like mining. I think they also allow 100% foreign ownership in PEZA areas.

O kaya Apple Tower! Original ang tunog lol!

mitsubishi-kyusi tower yata hahaha...

nakakatawa naman 'tong thread na 'to :colgate:

eto na lang muna tawag sa kanya - WARA PANGARAN TOWER :D

but this comment on facebook bothers me.. which is true.. take a look on this...



I've just remembered a height restriction on the Metro that we've forgot.. hope that our officials don't bother this.. :lol:

How far is QC to NAIA?

Bakit di pa kasi ilipat ang NAIA? How about sa Talim Island or Sangley Point? Current location of NAIA can be the best place for MRT and BRT grand terminal.

^^ Malapit pa rin yun in fact baka maistorbo ung mga pilots... :lol:

qc-naia around 15 kilometers

Marapit Circle Tower

or

Marayo NAIA tower

ang height nito between 601-633m

ang tokyo sky see -634m
canton tower -600m

alam ko ang height ng Burj dubai -830m

base dito
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

828m.

pupusta na ko.. wlang mangyayare DITO.. :lol:

a usual routine in our country... :ohno:

Manila seedling Bank.. The site Area...

http://www.orchid.ph/uploads/Image/Uploaded/map_potpqc.png

well.. I hope that pushes through... and I wonder if it would... would ABSCBN or GMA or TV5 lease out units inside the facility? or I guess most will be radio stations... I wonder how it will affect the TV signals of those 3 TV networks..

I hope it pushes through.. kahit singtangkad lang ng CN Tower.. kahit di 2nd tallest.. as long as something catchy!

think positive naman!!!! tayo


bakit na cancel na ba????

sus ang layo ng airport dito

pag maganda ang pagkakausap,matutuloy to, pag hiningan na ng malaki, asus, wala na to!!!

positibo lang tayo mga iho at ihas

In this weekend of remembrance for the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1944 and especially of course for the Great Tohuku Earthquake and Tsunami the Tokyo Sky Tree was lighted up in a special way for once more before the opening.

The 512 colors blog from where I have posted many pictures before made several blog posts with beautiful pictures.
http://512colors.blog120.fc2.com/

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kahit hindi kasing taas nito !!! ok na sa pinas

World's 2nd Tallest Tower Soon to Rise in Quezon City?

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yb2WjZauuNw/T16GYVku_RI/AAAAAAAAbiQ/8eCfGB5DTOo/s1600/Manila+Seedling+Bank+Foundation.jpg

MANILA, Philippines - Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is said to be interested in buying Manila Seedling Bank Foundation Inc.’s seven-hectare property on Edsa and Quezon Avenue in Quezon City for P100,000 a square meter to put up the second tallest tower in the world.

City administrator Victor Endriga says Mitsubishi’s representatives met with him and Mayor Herbert Bautista to discuss their plan to build the tower that will house telecommunications companies, radio and television networks , commercial establishments and restaurants. “If things get going, the tower offer will be the world’s second tallest next to Tokyo’s [634-meter] Sky Tree,” Endriga told the Manila Standard.

He said Mitsubishi showed Bautista a blueprint of its plan to transform the Manila Seedling Bank property into an eco-tourism hub under a public-private partnership. “The mayor was overwhelmed,” Endriga said. Apart from theP7 billion in projected income from the sale of Manila Seedling Bank, Endriga said, the city was anticipating a bigger business tax collection once the telecommunications tower started operations. “We will not spend a single centavo,” he said.

City officials were surprised when the Mitsubishi executives arranged an appointment with them, Endriga said. “It came to their knowledge that the nursery and seedling bank was auctioned off to the city in 2010 and on July 6, 2011,” he said. “Manila Seedling owed the city government P42 million in real-property taxes,” he said. “We believe it does not have the money to pay us until July 6.”




Read more: http://everythinginbudget.blogspot.com/2012/03/worlds-2nd-tallest-tower-soon-to-rise.html#ixzz1p0IGWe9e

Dapat mawala na ang squatter colony pala sa likod ng Trinoma.

^^ ganda ng view non sa observation deck.. :lol:

Eh kung sa squatter colony ito itayo. Para mawala na sila.

^^^^ kamay na bakal dapat pa iralin ni bistek

harsh man, pero dpat, sunugin ang IS na mga yan, gamitin ang firetrack,lagyan ng gasolina at gawing flame thrower,para masaya

^^ i hope this is not QCCBD in the making... dahil sa mga $%^&$%^#$^ mga squatter na yan... mga ^&$%*%^# nila!!!!!

harsh man, pero dpat, sunugin ang IS na mga yan, gamitin ang firetrack,lagyan ng gasolina at gawing flame thrower,para masaya

so harsh na un para sayo? pagkatapos nilang batubatuhin ung mga pulis na hindi naman sa kanila ung lupa na un.. harsh na ciguro kung pasabugan ng bomba yang colony na yan...:ohno:

remember that our country is Unitarian, all are for the good of more people.. then if it harms our growth they must be vanished away..

ang problema yung human rights, masyado kasi tayo naka dikit sa demokrasya na yan, kahit tumaesa kalye pwede as long as rights niya

ang pagkukulang nung mga pulis eh dapat 10,000 sila, 1/5 ng total population ng IS colony na yan, sabi 100,000 settlers daw pero 50,000 plus lang talaga ang totoo

no more maximum tolerance, just human left!!!

^^ ang sabihin nila awy ng mga opisyal ng QC na maging kontrabida sila sa mga buhay nila.. ay este.. malapit na pala uli ang eleksyon.. :lol:

^^:lol::lol::lol: paututan na naman ngayon, pwedeng sabihin nila, mananatili sila sa area na yan habang gagawing ang qccbd para aprub sa both sides, napakabango nila sa tao na walang kokote at walang kaalam alam sa buhay kundi ang gawing sugal ang buhay nila

Is there even a render or at least confirmation man lang na gagawin na ito bago sana gumawa ng thread, eh para namang puro WISHFUL THINKING lang ang nangyayari dito :colgate:


kung wala pa naman render or confirmation eh pwede naman 'to pag-usapan na lang muna sa Quezon City Thread kung saan nagsimula ang balitang 'to, mas hot ang discussion kapag talagang tuloy na ang project ...

kaya lang naman lumalakas loob ng mga I.S. sa pilipinas kasi yun mga pulitiko na nakikisimpatsya sa kanila kuno, at idagdag mo pa yun mga leftist na mga aktibista na kahit saan nalang ng rally sinasalihan... at kahit anong gawin proyektong pampaaunland ng pilipinas sila lagi ang humaharang...

^^^^ yan ang isang ugaling pilipino ( di lahat ) ......mahilig makialam

^^ feeling ko walang mangyayare d2.. :lol:

feeling ko lng naman...

maybe you could add a little more height and make it the tallest tower in the world(category). lol. because why not? if we can.? i really hope this doesnt turn sour!!! ande make it the damn tallest tower,free standing in the world!

Ganda talaga ng japan. Kung pwede kahit kalahati lang ng ganda, linis at ayos ang maynila, naku sobrang saya na siguro

The news says that Mitsubishi plans to buy manila Seedling bank's property. dyan pa lang malabo na as foreigners are not allowed to own (100%) property here. They maybe planning to tie-up with the QC local govt. or proposing to build up the tower for the local government thru Japanese ODA (not with their own funds). Those japs conglomerates are looking for projects as construction business in Japan is bad.

^^ yun nga sabi ko nung isang araw.. baka ang mangyari dyan for lease na lng yan.. ibebenta nila sa iba tapos papaupahan na lng sa Mitsubishi.. pero malabo pa rin.. tsk...

maybe you could add a little more height and make it the tallest tower in the world(category). lol. because why not? if we can.? i really hope this doesnt turn sour!!! ande make it the damn tallest tower,free standing in the world!

Mitsubishi of course would want Tokyo Sky Tree to be the tallest and the tallest in the world to be in Japan and not in other countries. Well, just a thought.

this is the only mitsubishi tower i know of..
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-PT007797.jpg?size=67&uid=287a861f-5cb6-4cf6-9e0b-0119e1d29331
i wonder what design will it be.. crossing my fingers..always optimisstic..i hope it gets built:banana:
maybe they could wow us? so sick of (failed') surprises.

^^ konti lng ang concrete pag Mitsubishi.. puro steel ung specialty nila.. parang skytree ang lalaki ng mga bakal..

for example ung monorail sa makati...

^^May monorail ba sa Makati?

wala, propose structure un ng Mitsubishi..

The news says that Mitsubishi plans to buy manila Seedling bank's property. dyan pa lang malabo na as foreigners are not allowed to own (100%) property here. They maybe planning to tie-up with the QC local govt. or proposing to build up the tower for the local government thru Japanese ODA (not with their own funds). Those japs conglomerates are looking for projects as construction business in Japan is bad.

I stand corrected. It appears Japanese corporations can own land in the Philippines under JPEPA. Check out this link: http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?rubrique113

^^ nice find, its the first time i see that type of agreement by the Japanese..

guyz, im sorry to said...pero asar ako sa mga kuro kuro...marami ang masyadong nega sa thread na ito...why dont you talk about the possibility of having a world 2nd tower in the philippines in a positve way...payo lang....

^^ A forum is a place where different sides could supposedly be heard, not just the sides you want to listen to.
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Hmm, JPEPA allows Japanese ownership of land through its clause that states Japanese investors should be treated as national investors? It seems to violate the 1986 constitution, but it is a step forward (I think? I'm not sure) to Philippine market liberalization, and all the more makes this project more plausible.

guyz, im sorry to said...pero asar ako sa mga kuro kuro...marami ang masyadong nega sa thread na ito...why dont you talk about the possibility of having a world 2nd tower in the philippines in a positve way...payo lang....

everybody would be happy to have that tower, who wouldn't?, pero ni wala pa nga 'tong render kahit confirmation man lang, sabi nga sa news nito, interesado pa lang ang mitsubishi na bilhin yung property, so no final words yet... dapat nga dini-discuss lang 'to sa Quezon City Thread eh at hindi as a project already...

the essence of having a thread for a project is to discuss the project itself not to discuss a project that's still an imagination ...

oo nga parang pagcor tower lang ito

another tower in Rizal???

http://albcorph.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/albcor-artrend-dtvtower-manila-thumb-oct30-2011.png?w=450&h=327 (http://albcorph.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/albcor-artrend-dtvtower-manila-thumb-oct30-2011.png?w=450&h=327)

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Various privately-owned TV networks in the Philippines, as well as the Philippine government, various telecommunication companies, and private real estate companies would unite together in order to construct a DTTV tower together with a Japanese partnership only with consent, spending billions of pesos to buy materials as well as equipment and labor. The construction of future DTTV tower in Metro and Mega Manila for the next two to three years, according to my own thought through possible reliable source in the coming years, would be in a portion of mountainous areas in nearby town of either in Antipolo or in Jala-Jala, Rizal, or on the ground of Metro Manila area originally planned for the construction of PAGCOR Tower.

DTTV Tower @ 320m Manila Sky Tree

http://albcorph.wordpress.com/2011/10/

Manila Sky Tower ^^

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^^ the problem with that is would generate revenues up to the break even level only. Why so? Because of its proposed remote location, tourists won't bother going there just to enjoy the view of the whole Mega Manila area. The most suitable location is the Manila Seedling. It is a central location. Just make the proposed observation and communication tower higher than Canton Tower and lower than Tokyo Sky Tree to make it the 2nd tallest tower in the world. If it does get that height, lalakas ang signal ng radio stations and TV stations

^^^^

I agree, the proposed location is really.. er... far. Even local tourists won't bother going there. :D

World’s 2nd Highest Tower??? wow!

I'm wondering about the "blueprint" that was supposedly shown to Mayor Bistek by Mitsubishi... was it a literal blueprint or a collection of documents that describes what Mitsubishi is planning to do? What's even more discombobulating is that the article said, and I quote "Mitsubishi showed Bautista a blueprint of its plan to transform the Manila Seedling Bank property".

Really? Blueprint of its plan? Wouldn't saying "details of its plan" or... ah never mind.

Anyway, as a resident of the city, I do hope that this one pushes through. I'm sure it's going to contribute a lot to the city's progress. But then again, the traffic problem in that area could worsen because of it unless they do something about it right away.

san i- public ung blue print na yan

updates?

Marami na ang excited makita ang blueprints or its plan details ng building na yan. Hot topic, hmmm pwede na rin? :rofl:

Marami na ang excited makita ang blueprints or its plan details ng building na yan. Hot topic, hmmm pwede na rin? :rofl:

I'm sure it is destined to suffer the fate of the lrt2 extension..... Shelved.

^^

Yes. It's a shame LRT2 extension was shelved.
just like many promises our government said. -____-

City Hall takes over Manila Seedling
By Rio N. Araja | Posted on July 11, 2012 | 12:02am | 0 Comments
Seedling bank gives way to business district. MANNY PALMERO

The Quezon City government on Tuesday took control of the Manila Seedling Bank Foundation on Edsa and Quezon Avenue after the one-year redemption period for auctioned properties expired on July 6.

Aldrin Cuña, Mayor Herbert Bautista’s chief of staff, said Elmo San Diego, Department of Public Order and Safety head, and QC Police chief Mario de la Vega, along with 100 officers, served the notice of forfeiture on the management of Manila Seedling over its failure to settle its unpaid real-estate tax of P57.208 million in the past 10 years.

He said Lucio Bertol, the foundation’s president, was given the chance to redeem the property sold to the city government on July 6, 2011 until July 6 this year, to no avail.

The National Housing Authority owns the 6.9-hectare prime property being leased to the Manila Seedling since 1977, Cuna said.

Bertol and other foundation officials could not be reached for comment.

Mayor Herbert Bautista said the foundation was not exempt from tax payment since the privilege has been withdrawn when the 1991 Local Government Code took effect.

In August 2010, the Supreme Court first division ruled for the city, denying the petition for review on certiorari filed by the foundation.

The high court resolved “to deny the petition for failure of petitioner (Manila Seedling) to sufficiently show that the Regional Trial Court committed any reversible error in the challenged decision and order as to warrant the exercise of this court’s discretionary appellate jurisdiction.”

The property was out on the auction block on July 6 last year over its non-payment of P57.08 million in tax arrears from 2001 to 2011.

Cuña said the property will be absorbed by the P22-billion joint venture of NHA and Ayala Land Inc. to develop the 29.1-hectare property in North Triangle into a central business district.

“A high-rise convention center will be put up in the area facing Edsa,” he told Manila Standard.

City administrator Victor Endriga earlier said Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. wanted to buy the seven-hectare property for P100,000 per square meter to put up the second tallest tower in the world, next to Tokyo’s 634-meter Sky Tree.

The MSBFI is a botanical tourist attraction in Quezon City with more than 70 botanical nurseries of different plants, including rare and exotic varieties.

A member of the International Society of Arboriculture, it is a non-governmental organization founded in 1977 initially as a seedling producer.

http://manilastandardtoday.com/www2/2012/07/11/city-hall-takes-over-manila-seedling/

nabanggit nanaman yung Mitsubishi deal. :lol:

^^ grabe pm ko ung nag- sulat ng article nito ang tagal mag re- play ! nag tanung ako kung ano na status! ala sumasagot :(

I holding my excitement until i see some actual construction. This is one of those hyper advertised project that often never see the light of day. IMO this is just a news article created to make some noise for mitsubishi and other entities for some reason or another. Its just too far fetch. It made no mention on how mitsubishi woule be able to recover the cost of construction at all.

^^ grabe pm ko ung nag- sulat ng article nito ang tagal mag re- play ! nag tanung ako kung ano na status! ala sumasagot :(

This project is so ambitious..

Seedlings, not buildings! Kalikasan Partylist decries QC gov’t takeover of EDSA botanical nursery


Sun, 07/15/2012 - 08:00 -- webadmin
Press Statement
15 July 2012

Earlier this week, the Quezon City government took over the seven-hectare Manila Seedling Bank Foundation compound along EDSA corner Quezon Avenue, allegedly due to the former’s failure to settle unpaid real estate tax obligations. According to the QC government, the lot will eventually be used for a high-rise commercial center facing EDSA, which developers claim will be the “second tallest tower in the world.”

Kalikasan Partylist decries this move by the QC government to eliminate another of the city’s few remaining green spaces. For decades, this seedling bank has given urban residents access to seedlings of native or fruit-bearing trees, vegetables, herbs and ornamental plants. It is located right beside the 20-hectare Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center, which is a sanctuary to many floral and faunal species (including native plants), a place for families and citizens to enjoy nature in the heart of the city, and a source of many other ecosystem services. Together, these two places are a pair of “green lungs” in the middle of the congested city space.

We oppose the plan to convert the remaining green areas in Quezon City into commercial business districts (CBDs). This pursuit of profit has already resulted in the unjust displacement and attempted demolition of urban poor communities in order to make way for giant malls. Already, these commercial complexes cause heavy traffic, especially along choke points such as EDSA, Quezon and Mindanao Avenues. Now, government and private developers want to convert our precious remaining green spaces into similar areas.

What will be next? Pushing for the transfer of government offices (such as the Philippine Science High School, the Philippine Children’s Medical Center and the Office of the Ombudsman) to make way for even more commercial expansion? Promoting more development for the primary benefit of foreign investors, at the expense of communities and nature?

The government and the residents of Quezon City should exert efforts to preserve these urban green spaces. We urge the city government to rethink its development plan. It should integrate the need for green spaces and the housing and economic well-being of its poor residents before diving headfirst into commercial expansion. We don’t want to be surrounded by more high-rise buildings, rising poverty, demolitions, and lifeless concrete jungles. Let these areas for trees remain: save the space for seedlings, and not buildings.

http://www.kalikasanpartylist.org/content/seedlings-not-buildings-kalikasan-partylist-decries-qc-gov%E2%80%99t-takeover-edsa-botanical-nursery

seedlings or 2nd tallest in the world

Eh di relocate Manila Seeding to the proposed Parks district of QC-CBD.

Seedlings, not buildings! Kalikasan Partylist decries QC gov’t takeover of EDSA botanical nursery

We oppose the plan to convert the remaining green areas in Quezon City into commercial business districts (CBDs). This pursuit of profit has already resulted in the unjust displacement and attempted demolition of urban poor communities in order to make way for giant malls. Already, these commercial complexes cause heavy traffic, especially along choke points such as EDSA, Quezon and Mindanao Avenues. Now, government and private developers want to convert our precious remaining green spaces into similar areas.


I think eto ang pinaka-concern nung group na ito kaya ayaw nila iredevelop yung place...

I agree...if we want to keep the Manila Seedling Bank... well.. we need an investor to take over it and maybe relocate it within the green areas planned in the CBD plan...

^^ saka ung mga urban poor , mag eeleksyon na naman .

Eh di relocate Manila Seeding to the proposed Parks district of QC-CBD.

There are still a lot of green areas in QC. It's high time that this space be put into better use. Some people really are not vissionaries. They are a people of veted interests.

this thread is worthless if all about is gossip..waste waste. mod..?

fantasy thread really. Project was announced just to be noticed

fantasy thread really. Project was announced just to be noticed

pano ka naman nakakasiguro????:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

As I See It :ohno: :bash: :bash: :bash: THESE PEOPLE ARE ANTI-PROGRESS supported by IS/Communist/Activist/etc. !!!

Business district in North Triangle a bad idea
By Neal H. Cruz | Philippine Daily Inquirer | Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 | 10:10 pm

Here is the latest chapter in the fight over the nurseries of Manila Seedling Bank Foundation (MSBF) on Quezon Avenue, Quezon City.

Background: During the Marcos administration, a 7-hectare property owned by the National Housing Authority (NHA) was granted in usufruct to MSBF, so that the latter could grow seedlings for the government reforestation projects, with some to be sold to home gardeners. In December 2005, the Quezon City government sold the property at public auction—allegedly for MSBF’s failure to pay real estate taxes—wherein the QC government was the highest bidder. MSBF filed a case in court contesting the sale.

On Oct. 6, 2009, the QC Regional Trial Court nullified the sale for lack of due process. Early this year, City Hall tried again to grab the property, this time sending a contingent of city workers aided by 100 QC policemen. They padlocked the gates to prevent anyone from entering or leaving, claimed ownership of the property, and forced the gardener-tenants to pay rent to City Hall.

MSBF filed antigraft cases at the Office of the Ombudsman against city and police officials for the raid, and against the NHA manager for not taking sufficient steps to stop the City Hall takeover in spite of the fact that NHA, as owner, is by law exempt from the payment of real estate taxes.

In their reply, officials led by Mayor Herbert Bautista and City Administrator Victor Endriga said that they acted in good faith, that their actions had the “presumption of regularity,” and that they had sent MSBF notices of delinquency before the takeover. For his part, NHA manager Chito Cruz said he had sent City Hall letters stating that NHA is exempt by law from paying real estate taxes and that the sale of the 7-hectare property is illegal.

MSBF issued a reply-affidavit noting that NHA merely stopped there and “no longer sought other available legal remedies, such as … appropriate court action.” This “abstention … enabled [City Hall] to freely proceed with [its] illegal act,” it said.

MSBF also said City Hall’s notice of delinquency to the foundation, without a notice of assessment, did not fulfill the requirements of due process as enunciated by the Supreme Court.

The RTC agreed with this view and declared that the takeover was illegal and null and void.

In its decision, the RTC declared: “Inasmuch as no prior notice of assessment was served, there is no basis to collect any tax liability, no obligation arose on the part of the Plaintiff to pay the amount of real property taxes sought to be collected. Consequently, Plaintiff never became delinquent in the payment of said taxes to defendant Quezon City, and the latter never acquired any right to sell the subject property in a public auction.”

In spite of this decision, City Hall continues to exercise control over MSBF’s usufruct property and to force the tenant-gardeners to pay rent to it and not to the foundation.

But why is City Hall salivating over the property, to the extent of resorting to “unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional measures”?

It is because of its obsession to have the property absorbed by the P22-billion joint venture of NHA and Ayala Land Inc. to develop the 29-hectare property in North Triangle into a Central Business District where, according to Mayor Bautista’s chief of staff Aldrin Duna, “a high-rise convention center will be put up in the area facing EDSA.” (As I said in an earlier column, Ayala Land should be ashamed of its role in this illegal action.)

A newspaper report quoted Administrator Endriga as saying that “Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. wanted to buy the 7-hectare property for P100,000 per square meter to put up the second tallest tower in the world, next to Tokyo’s 634-meter Sky Tree.”

The greed is so strong that City Hall even wants to grab the Veterans Memorial Medical Center compound and the Ninoy Aquino Wildlife Center to make them a part of this Central Business District. QC officials are obviously envious of the cities of Makati and Taguig, which have high-rise commercial and residential buildings in their commercial districts.

Regarding this ambition of having a Central Business District in the North Triangle area, I strongly urge our officials to give it a second hard look, and for the residents in and around the area to strongly oppose it.

First, do you realize what will happen if this area is filled up with tall commercial buildings? The traffic will be terrible. It is terrible now because of the presence of three giant shopping malls there—Trinoma, SM North Edsa and The Block—but it will be many times more terrible if a business district is built there. It will be much, much worse than Edsa during rush hours. Imagine the tens of thousands of vehicles clogging Elliptical Road, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon Avenue, North, South, East, and West Avenues, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao Avenues, and all the other peripheral streets. Residents of Philamlife, Project 6, Tierra Pura, Miranila and other neighboring villages will find it difficult to drive to and from their homes because of the traffic.

And think of the water requirements of that Central Business District. Much of the water supply of neighboring villages will be sucked up by the district’s buildings.

Also think of the air quality in the area. The tens of thousands of vehicles and the hundreds of thousands of people doing business there will all pollute the air. Right now, the air there is clean because of the open spaces and greenery. That will change once the Central Business District—which Quezon City does not need—becomes a reality.

Junk that crazy idea.

Source: http://opinion.inquirer.net/41331/business-district-in-north-triangle-a-bad-idea

^^ you know whats terrible..... slums, Poverty.....

i think these "pro-poor" people are the ones dragging the society down. they want people to remain poor so they have something to fight for. their ideology is backward and a failure.

Why doesnt Mr. Neal Cruz try to go to Bonifacio GLobal City and dare say "oh look this is a wrong idea". I bet he will get a slap in the face from Mayor Cayetano. LOL poor people dont read Inquirer anyway so his propaganda will fall on deaf ears :lol:

^^ SO THEY ARE HAPPY WITH SLUMS RATHER THAN A BUSINESS DISTRICT THAT WILL MUCH BENEFIT THE FILIPINO PEOPLE? FOR OUR FUTURE PEOPLE? WHAT THE?

^^ SO THEY ARE HAPPY WITH SLUMS RATHER THAN A BUSINESS DISTRICT THAT WILL MUCH BENEFIT THE FILIPINO PEOPLE? FOR OUR FUTURE PEOPLE? WHAT THE?

many PDI columnists are negastars. best option is to press the ignore button :cheers: