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General Information

Location

South of Manila, Republic of the Philippines, Bounded by Pasay City on the North, Muntinlupa City on the Southeast, Las Piñas on the Southwest, Taguig on the Northeast, and the Manila Bay (Reclamation / Boulevard 2000 area) on the West, 14°30’ latitude and 121°01’ longitude.

Land Area and Uses

47.7 square kilometers carefully planned to accomodate residential, commercial, industrial and other establishments.
Residential Areas. A part of the land area used for residential purposes accounts for ancestral homes, another in posh villages, with the remaining portion occupied by apartments, boarding houses, apartelles, townhouses, and condominiums for rent or sale at very reasonable rates.
Commercial Centers. The whole stretch of land, save for occasional vacant portions, fronting roadways from the Northside Barangay of Baclaran to the Southern Barangays of San Antonio and B.F. Homes, is occupied by stores, shops, banks, offices, supermarkets, restaurant, schools, service stations and other related establishments. In some areas, as in the beautifully luxurious Barangays of B.F. Homes and Don Bosco, commercial establishments are found further in the interiors and along roadways, thereby providing a welcome treat to the population of the adjoining residential and/or industrial community.
Industrial Areas. Parañaque’s industrial site used to be in the Northern Barangays of Baclaran and Tambo but because of expansion and commercialization in these areas, the factories were moved to the Southern and Eastern Barangays of San Antonio, B.F. Homes, Sun Valley, Marcelo Green, Merville, and San Martin de Porres. These areas have since become the center of industry in Parañaque, and the corporate headquarters in the Philippines of both Filipino and multinational companies.

Population and Political Divisions

With a population of 449,811 as of year 2000, Paranaque is subdivided into 16 barangays or townships, 2 legislative districts and a lone Congressional district. It was chartered into a city on February 15, 1998.

Topography

The City of Parañaque sits on a plain with parts lying along the coastline of scenic Manila Bay. Within the next decade, expansions shall be realized through an ambitious, large-scale, well-planned and fast-track development upon an approximately 1,200 hectare stretch that will contain mixed land uses for residential, commercial, institutional, hotel, residential-commercial, residential-office, greens and open spaces, among other purposes.

Climate

March to May are hot summer months. The temperature dips following intermittent rains and occasional gustiness from June to October. Cool and fair weather prevails from November to February. Parañaque experiences an annual rainfall of 1.82 mm. per minute while its temperature ranges from 23 to 33 degrees Celsius; it has a relative humidity of 76% and enjoys an average daylight duration of 12 hours.

People

Parañaque is an ethnically-integrated community composed of warm, friendly, hospitable, and devoted Filipinos. It is also a second home to various foreign nationals who have come to like and love the city and its constituents and who have realized the locality’s potentials for growth. It is a place wherein people from the different regions of the three main island groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are assimilated. Due to rapid migration, only around 10 percent of the population are native Tagalog Paraqueños; the rest is an amalgam of migrants from various regions of the Philippines, plus those foreign nationals who have adopted the City as their "second home."

Language

The City folks' main mode of communication is the Philippine vernacular called Filipino which is basically culled from the indigenous Tagalog language with evident English and Spanish influences together with traces of other languages being used by Filipinos from other regions of the country. However, official transactions are still mostly done in English which is understood and spoken as either a second or third language by most citizens.

Religion

Parañaque is not only a melting pot of variant cultures and migrants from all over the country; it is also a crossroad of diverse religions. It is also home to the Baclaran Church, known to be the most attended church in Asia, which is run by the Redemptorist fathers. Although predominantly Roman Catholic, other Christian religions and denominations freely practice their faith in the City. One would also notice the presence of Moslem communities throught Parañaque wherein they have enjoyed the respect and interaction of the Christians. Indeed, Parañaque is a place where inter-faith cooperation for social change begins, takes form, and brings fruit. Religious groups and their respective lay organizations are very active in providing the community with social services complementary to those implemented by City Hall.

Resources courtesy of the City Information Office, City Hall, Parañaque.

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Etymology

The name "Parañaque" is derived from the phrase "para na aque," which was commonly used in the past when people who wished to disembark from kalesas (horse-drawn carriages). The phrase literally means "stop now, boy": "para" from the Spanish parar (to stop), "na" from the Tagalog word for "now" or "already," and "aque" from the Tagalog word for boy, lalaki. An alternative meaning of "para na aque" could be "stop here," with "aque" being derived from the Spanish aquí ("here").

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A burning building along Taft Avenue which was hit during the Japanese air raid in Barrio, Paranque, December 13, 1941, the Philippine Islands

History

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An old perspective of St. Andrew's Church in La Huerta.

Beginnings
The then town of Palanyag was founded in 1572. Since the place lay very proximate to the sea, the Paraqueños did much trade with the Chinese, Indonesians, Indians and Malayans. At that time the main means of livelihood were salt-making, fishing, planting rice, shoemaking, slipper-making and weaving. The community was headed by cabezas de barangay, a westernization of the local chieftains and the principalia as the local aristocrats were called, a very durable social institution since they were the political absorbers. They justified and moderated the demands of the Spanish colonizers. Education was limited to the principalia since it is only they who could afford it.

The recorded beginnings of Palanyag began in 1580 when Fr. Diego de Espinar, an Augustinian missionary, was appointed Prior or superior of the convent or religious house of the town. As resident priest, he established the mission house there, with its spiritual jurisdiction reaching up to Kawit in the province of Cavite. The Council of the Definitors (or conference of chiefs of the religious orders) held on May 11, 1580, accepted Palanyag as an independent town.

The image of Palanyag's patroness, Nuestra Señora del Buensuceso, was brought to St. Andrew's Church in La Huerta in 1625.
Historical accounts state that since Palanyag was located at the crossroads of Manila, the provinces of Cavite and Batangas, the town's strategic location enabled the townspeople to play an important role in Philippine history.

During the invasion of the Chinese pirate Limahong in 1574, Parañaque residents, particularly those from Barangay Dongalo, heroically aided in preventing the attack in Manila. This became known as the "Red Sea Incident" due to the blood that flowed as a result of the defense made by the people from barrio Sta. Monica, the barangay's former name.

When the British invaded Manila in 1762, the townspeople once again remained loyal to the Spanish colonizers, especially the Augustinians. The invasion however showed that the power of the Spaniards was not invincible and more than a hundred years later, this would prove to be true.

Then came the Philippine Revolution (circa late 19th century) and the Spaniards realized that the town was a practical gateway to Cavite, the bastion of the revolutionary Katipuneros. Conversely to the rebels based in Cavite, they saw the town as their gateway to Intramuros, the Spanish seat of government in Manila.

Prominent Paraqueños, like Manuel Quiogue and secular priest Father Pedro Dandan became leading revolutionary figures.
When the Americans took over, one of the first towns to have a municipal government was Parañaque.

During the Japanese occupation (circa 1940's), Parañaque supplied the leadership of the guerilla movement like the ROTC Hunters as well as food and arms. Parañaque was one of the first towns to be liberated and its guerillas helped in paving the way for American forces to enter Manila.
As can be gleaned from the above, Parañaque then and now has and continues to play a strategic role in the Philippines' political and economic progress.

Another outstanding feature of this historic town by the bay is the cultivation of its cultural traditions like the Komedya, Sunduan, and Bati, among others that continue to attract local and foreign tourists alike, especially during the summer months.

From Palanyag to Parañaque

Palanyag, the old name for the city of Parañaque, generally means "my beloved", among other definitions, for as far as its residents are concerned, this best describes their affection for their hometown. Another version came from the combination of the terms "palayan" and "palalayag", the former meaning ricefields of which the city once abounded in and the latter pertaining to the sailing and fishing occupation of many of its residents. This was also a sign of cooperation and goodwill between the two major working sectors of the town, the farmers and the fishermen. It was however a drunken guest, during a certain affair which decided on the final name, who said "Mabuhay ang Palanyag at ang mga taga-Palanyag! (Long live Palanyag and the people of Palanyag!)" So the name stuck from that day on.

Another version, according to tradition, was when a Spanish soldier told the driver of his caruaje or horse-drawn carriage, to "Para aqui, para aqui (Stop here, stop here)!" The driver, uncomprehending, kept on prodding his horse to go on while the soldier angrily repeated his instruction: "Para aqui, para aqui!" Onlookers just laughed as the Spaniards empathically said "para aniya aqui para aniya aqui (he said 'stop here' he said 'stop here)." For days the incident was repeated around and term "para aniya aqui" stuck.

There is another story that says of an imposing balete tree at the mouth of the Parañaque. It looked like a boat sailing slowly and majestically, earning the Tagalog term Palanyag, a corruption of the term "palayag" which means "point of navigation". Further adulteration of the word later resulted in the word "palanyaque".

A historian believes the town's name may have come from the term "palanas" which means a "broad flat plain," the geographic description of Parañaque.
Other origins of the name Parañaque are "palanac" (with no special meaning), "patanyag" or contest for popularity, and "paranac", a native term for the shell product that used to be the livelihood of the natives of the town at one time.

Whatever the correct origin of the name of Parañaque, the various terms strongly suggest the town's storied and mosaic past.

Main source : DULCE FESTIN-BAYBAY, Author of the first comprehensive history of Parañaque, courtesy of Parañaque's City Information Office.

Arroyo OKs bird sanctuary in Parañaque

By Juliet Labog-Javellana
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Monday signed a proclamation establishing a 175-ha bird sanctuary and eco-tourism area along the coastal lagoons of the cities of Las Piñas and Parañaque.

She also ordered the Department of Education to incorporate global warming and climate change in the science subjects in public schools to make the young more aware of the importance of protecting the environment.

Ms Arroyo issued the directives during the belated celebration of Earth Day at Rizal Hall in Malacañang Monday.

In a still unnumbered proclamation, she designated the lagoons of Las Piñas and Parañaque covering 175.307 ha as a “critical habitat and eco-tourism area” as part of her “Green Philippines” agenda. She signed the proclamation in the course of her speech on Earth Day, observed every April 22.

The protected area is meant to “support combined populations of the globally threatened Chinese egret and the Philippine duck along with 27 species of other rare and uncommon species of waterbirds.”

Environment Secretary Angelo Reyes said that the establishment of the haven for migratory birds would not put the population around the two cities and the country at risk of the dreaded avian flu.

“You know with the advent of development in the Manila Bay area it is important that we preserve a certain portion for these migratory birds. Otherwise we don’t know where they will move when they migrate from the north,” he said.

“This area ... will of course be monitored by our personnel from the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources).”

A boost to tourism

Reyes said the designation of the bird sanctuary would also boost tourism.

“(This is good for) eco-tourism because these birds...come between October and February every year and tourists, they come in and watch these birds,” Reyes told reporters.

He said the coastal areas in these two cities have been home to these migratory birds which come from as far as Siberia, China and all the way down to Australia.

The President said the declaration of the bird sanctuary was part of a four-pronged environmental program dubbed Green Philippines.

To protect the environment, she said her administration had programs on reforestation, preservation of coral reefs and waterways, ridding the land and air of pollution and energy independence.”

She said the DepEd would become part this year of the government agencies promoting protection of the environment.

‘Green Philippines’ plan

“Today, I am directing the Department of Education to incorporate subjects dealing with global warming and climate change into the public school curriculum subjects. We want our young to be aware of global warming and other climate change phenomenon,” she said, “because we want to press ahead up to their generation with a massive Green Philippines Environmental Plan that is comprehensive in scope and thorough in execution.

Ms Arroyo said that as part of the program to protect reefs and waterways, her administration sought to establish national parks and international sanctuaries for eco-tourism and scientific research.

The proclamation mandates that any reclamation activity shall not impede the ecological functions of the lagoons of the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Eco-tourism Area and its mangroves, salt marshes and tidal areas as breeding, feeding and roosting place for marine and terrestrial wildlife.

Reclamation activities should also be done in a “way that would help restore and ensure shellfish and fish productivity.”

It also mandates that a minimum 15 percent of the Manila Bay area reclamation site must be set aside for the wildlife habitats.

The President said economic progress should not be achieved “at the backs of the poor and at the expense of the environment.”

“No nation can aspire to become modern without thinking of the environment,” Ms Arroyo said.


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Mabuhay ang Parañaque!!! :D

Nice trivia. Ginagamit pa ba ang Palanyag, maybe in cultural events?

^yup. sa ibang cultural events. I'm glad you made this one, Sinjin. Now, I have to supply some pics and details. Gosh, if only I have a digicam.

^yup. sa ibang cultural events. I'm glad you made this one, Sinjin. Now, I have to supply some pics and details. Gosh, if only I have a digicam.

This is an informative and interesting thread. I wish to read more about Paranaque on this thread in the future.

By the way, where can I find the Paranaque City Hall? Where is it located? Maybe some forummers who have photos of the Paranaque City Hall can post them here. Thank you and more power!

I don't have a photo. But I know where it is.

The city hall is in Barangay San Antonio near Dr. A Santos Ave. Unfortunately, it does not lie in a major road so it's quite hard to find.

I don't have a photo. But I know where it is.

The city hall is in Barangay San Antonio near Dr. A Santos Ave. Unfortunately, it does not lie in a major road so it's quite hard to find.

Indeed. It does not lie on a major road. Pero lagi namin siyang nadadaanan dati when we used to rent a house in Malacanan Village in Paranaque. Landmarks na hahanapin mo to find the city hall, ummm, pumasok ka sa daan na may 7-Eleven at Shell Station, then dumiretso kalang.

05.12.07 - SM City Bicutan

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Oh, everytime I see this mall, I remember the oh so heavy traffic along Dona Soledad

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by bleak! (http://flickr.com/photos/victorancheta/)

There's an article about Paranaque in Graphic magazine, I just can't find a copy. damn.

Does anyone have any pictures of Tahanan village in Sucat?

I've posted one time about the 50's Architecture Paranaque City Hall (formerly munisipyo) in this forum, and I haven't seen a pic. Well a couple of weeks ago, I drove by the area, and it was already dark, but I forgot my camera so I couldn't take a pic! At least the facade is still there. I would've loved to enter to take a picture of the back yard with their ramp and 50's roof and landscaping, and also the stairs, walls, etc, what a throwback this place is!

Oh yeah, incidentally, the only reason why I passed through San Antonio is to avoid the service road traffic, because we were headed to SM City Bicutan, and considering we were coming from the Marcelo Green area, it was a long drive just to avoid the traffic jam. That was ridiculous!

^^are you from Paranaque too?

^^are you from Paranaque too?

Formerly, pero lumipat na ako sa U.S. I visit Pinas and Paranaque every two years.

^^ahhh... so where in Paranaque were you from? I'm from Don Bosco Village.

I don't have a photo. But I know where it is.

The city hall is in Barangay San Antonio near Dr. A Santos Ave. Unfortunately, it does not lie in a major road so it's quite hard to find.

Well for me it's a major road, that's because I used to live in Sucat. Anyway the city hall is quite big in terms of area but it's not imposing from what I remember of it. The layout reminds me of a school, with the main yard in the middle.

Aah p'que. It was pretty suburban from what I recall, life was fast, but not as fast as it was in the fringes, but I won't be surprised if it is as urban as Manila or Pasay now. I mean back in my time every house had a water tank in their backyard and every fortnight or so there would be a pick-up with a water tank which would fill up the backyard one.

Also 4th estate, near Manila Memorial would flood so badly because along Sucat Road, in that area between the cemetery and the road connecting to BF (where the maccas is in the corner of), trash would be dumped there everytime. So trash plus the valley effect in that area creates Sucat Lake :D

Come to think of it I never knew how our rubbish got picked up then.
Where's Don Bosco Village? I live off the road in San Antonio parish, turning left coming from the palengke.

^^Don Bosco Village is inside Better Living Subdivision, a stone's throw away Mary Help of Christians Parish.

I don't have a photo. But I know where it is.

The city hall is in Barangay San Antonio near Dr. A Santos Ave. Unfortunately, it does not lie in a major road so it's quite hard to find.

I love the church across the City Hall. We hear masses there when we resided at Malacañan Village. Anyone has photos of it?

Parañaque creates sp’l investment district (http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=98841)

By MICHAEL PUNONGBAYAN

The Philippine Star

In an effort to encourage the business sector to invest in Parañaque City, Mayor Florencio Bernabe and the Sangguniang Panlungsod have created a special investment district (SID) in the locality.

The move is expected to attract local and foreign businessmen who will be able to enjoy various benefits and privileges by simply locating in the 820-hectare location.

Bernabe, who recently signed an ordinance creating the SID, said the new investment haven in Parañaque lies west of Roxas Boulevard and Coastal Road.

The local law allows the grant of tax holidays and other incentives that is expected to accelerate growth and development as well as provide meaningful employment and livelihood opportunities in the area.

It was principally authored by 12 Parañaque councilors led by Norberto Bonsol, Giovanni Esplana, Jose Enrico Golez, Florante Romey Jr., Florencia Amurao, Edwin Benzon, Conchita Bustamante, Valmar Sotto, Raquel Gabriel, Jaime Delos Santos, and Joan Villafuerte Dansing.

Councilors Carlito Intipuesto, Jason Webb, Eric Olivarez, Rufino Allanigue and Vanessa Marquez and Liga ng mga Barangay president Clemente Advincula co-sponsored the ordinance.

Bernabe said the area covers five barangays which is now being groomed to grow much like Makati City’s Central Business District (CBD) with world class commerce and tourism facilities.

He noted that among the other benefits for enterprise locators are for businesses with more than P1 billion of capital expenditures to pay only two percent of gross income earned for a period of not more than five years.

Parañaque’s SID includes the so-called Entertainment City, an integrated urban development area which will have international-standard hotels, theaters and recreational facilities, and the newly created Bird Sanctuary, a major bio-tourism attraction.

Saan yan?

820 hectares? :shocked:

Bernabe, who recently signed an ordinance creating the SID, said the new investment haven in Parañaque lies west of Roxas Boulevard and Coastal Road.

Parañaque’s SID includes the so-called Entertainment City, an integrated urban development area which will have international-standard hotels, theaters and recreational facilities, and the newly created Bird Sanctuary, a major bio-tourism attraction.

Based on those... it seems like the area facing the bay and reasonably so.

Yung bay city ata ito kung saan gagawin yung sa PAGCOR. I'm pretty cautious about this eh. Pero malay natin. sana. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

But 820 hectares? XP, can you imagine the size of that? UP, Diliman is around 50 hectares and that's like a small city already. :uh: Would it include reclaimed land?

PAGCOR? yung lumang duty free?

@XP, yeah sorry mate, still don't know where that is:D I remember Better Living, years back I would have known its location too. Malapit ba yun sa Sucat Road?

^^nope sa Bicutan siya. Yung susunod na barangay after ng City Hall.

@Igan: Yes it would certainly include the recalimed land. Actually, I bet that is the centerpiece of that project. I have two hypothesis about this news: 1. There might be a typographical error or 2. It might really be 820 hectares but I doubt if this would be implemented anytime soon. And to think that it is a large space. I've encountered a lot of resolutions coming from the City Hall but I've yet too see any implementation. My bet is that the City Hall is still waiting for the developments in PAGCOR before they could do something about this. In short, "free riding."

This project is surely tied to the develpoments in PAGCOR's Bay City in the reclaimed land in Manila Bay. If it is really 820 hecatares then half of that land would surely come from the reclaimed area and the remaining half would be the western side of Paranaque near NAIA T1 until the proposed c-5. I could see a lot of potential in this place. The airport is already there plus the bay city. AND there's a very large space behind SM Sucat that is recently declared as bird sanctuary for migratory birds coming from the North. All that the city hall needs to do is add perks, improve infrastructure and most imporatantly, eliminate or at least lessen the bureaucratic red tape.

But 820 hectares? XP, can you imagine the size of that? UP, Diliman is around 50 hectares and that's like a small city already. :uh: Would it include reclaimed land?

UP Diliman is 400+ hectares rolling hills... from the student handbook during the fopc. :D

Addendum: 493 hectares to be exact.

^^yup. that's what I'm going to say too. :D

UP Diliman is 400+ hectares rolling hills... from the student handbook during the fopc. :D

Addendum: 493 hectares to be exact.

I sit corrected. Were you a freshie block handler? :lol: But that's still just roughly half the size of the proposed Parañaque business district.

OMG, UPLB has 3,600 hectares. Must include Mount Makiling. :nuts:

sorry sa OT

^^ Nope I never joined the block handlers of FOPC. I remembered the number from what I'd read about UP in 1999.

^^nope sa Bicutan siya. Yung susunod na barangay after ng City Hall.

@Igan: Yes it would certainly include the recalimed land. Actually, I bet that is the centerpiece of that project. I have two hypothesis about this news: 1. There might be a typographical error or 2. It might really be 820 hectares but I doubt if this would be implemented anytime soon. And to think that it is a large space. I've encountered a lot of resolutions coming from the City Hall but I've yet too see any implementation. My bet is that the City Hall is still waiting for the developments in PAGCOR before they could do something about this. In short, "free riding."

This project is surely tied to the develpoments in PAGCOR's Bay City in the reclaimed land in Manila Bay. If it is really 820 hecatares then half of that land would surely come from the reclaimed area and the remaining half would be the western side of Paranaque near NAIA T1 until the proposed c-5. I could see a lot of potential in this place. The airport is already there plus the bay city. AND there's a very large space behind SM Sucat that is recently declared as bird sanctuary for migratory birds coming from the North. All that the city hall needs to do is add perks, improve infrastructure and most imporatantly, eliminate or at least lessen the bureaucratic red tape.

the pagcor city....is the one right beside moa......its that big chunk of open space there...that includes the new nayong pilipino block......that is where the new pagcor city will be situated

^^yes. that's what i'm talking about.

What's up in Aguilar Country? Any new developments?

wah may thread na pala ang LP :D

dito ako dumadayo pag nasa maynila :P

I love Las Pinas! I think it's the greenest city in Metro Manila! And its people are friendly.

and konti lang ang kotong cops

I love Las Pinas! I think it's the greenest city in Metro Manila! And its people are friendly.

How so? :)

Talagang magandang community ang Las Piñas. Efficient ang gobyerno! May paparating na bagyo na naman. Pag nawalan ng kuryente at mawawalan kayo ng tubig, tumawag lang kayo sa City Hall at may darating ng trak na may dalang malinis na tubig. :cheers:

Any idea about the medyo high-rise na tinatayo sa may malapit sa City Hall? Also may balita ba kayo sa bagong Robinsons Mall which is rumored to rise in Pamplona?

any high-rise in the area??

I live in Las Pinas and sorry its easy to be the greenest city in MM, if its full of subdivisions. Also traffic is one of the worst in MM. But as even as it has many flaws, I still love the city.

As for that hi-rise it is currently around 12 floors. I'll try to post pics.

^^
Cguro it's because it's the focus of the local government ever since. Maswerte at residential tayo but I think in order for a city to be green dapat may political will ang mga local government leaders.

Anyway, yeah traffic! Kasi sobrang daming villages but maliit ang roads. Its because of poor urban planning during the ancient times. :bash: Di bale may friendship sticker naman eh. If you are from Las Piñas and have the sticker, nakakaiwas ka sa traffic.

Nice to hear!....fellow Las Pineros tuloy niyo....ok to may thread na ang LP City...Best Regards n God Bless to all.:cheers:

grabe talaga ang traffic sa Alabang-Zapote Road. what can u expect frm a 4-lane major thoroughfare. At kahit na meron ka pa nung mga friendship sticker you still have to pass through that road if you want to get out of Las Pinas.

I think the local government together with neighboring cities should start to develop a comprehensive mass transportation system soon. otherwise, parking lot ang kalalabasan ng AZ road, di na gagalaw mga sasakyan. Here are my thoughts, either they only allow buses (higher capacity, less vehicles) to ply the route, or build a mass transport system (e.g. monorail) from Alabang all the way to Cavite and connect it to the planned LRT 1 extension.

Las Pinas resident din ako before moving to Bacoor, Cavite. Tiga Moonwalk Village mga parents ko.

post nman kau ng pic ng Las Pinas CBD

Wala pa naman existing CBD ang Las Pinas ..

^^

Anyway, yeah traffic! Kasi sobrang daming villages but maliit ang roads. Its because of poor urban planning during the ancient times. :bash: Di bale may friendship sticker naman eh. If you are from Las Piñas and have the sticker, nakakaiwas ka sa traffic.


True at least now you can bypass the entire strech of Alabang-Zapote Road via Naga Road then through BF Paranaque. For those not that familiar with Las Pinas or its traffic, our only main thouroughfare is the 4-lane Alabang-Zapote Road that services almost half a million people. Yup traffic here is that bad. :nuts:

Wala pa naman existing CBD ang Las Pinas ..



ah ganun ba eh ung Madrigal Business Park...Muntinlupa parin un eh noh?!!akala ko las pinas part na un...ok!

merong ginagawang 12F na building near Ever Gotesco, can anyone post a picture on this one. Aba!! 12F mataas din yun ah.

I live in Las Pinas and sorry its easy to be the greenest city in MM, if its full of subdivisions. Also traffic is one of the worst in MM. But as even as it has many flaws, I still love the city.

As for that hi-rise it is currently around 12 floors. I'll try to post pics.

Yeah, it kinda sucks for a city to have only one major road.

^^
Cguro it's because it's the focus of the local government ever since. Maswerte at residential tayo but I think in order for a city to be green dapat may political will ang mga local government leaders.

Anyway, yeah traffic! Kasi sobrang daming villages but maliit ang roads. Its because of poor urban planning during the ancient times. :bash: Di bale may friendship sticker naman eh. If you are from Las Piñas and have the sticker, nakakaiwas ka sa traffic.

What is this friendship sticker? Is that the BF Homes sticker? Buti nalang may ganyan din kami para makaiwas sa traffic along Alabang-Zapote road especially within the vicinity of SM Southmall

post nman kau ng pic ng Las Pinas CBD

No text speak please.

ah ganun ba eh ung Madrigal Business Park...Muntinlupa parin un eh noh?!!akala ko las pinas part na un...ok!

Yeah, nalito nga ako once dahil nasa Muntinlupa pa ako pero when we entered Daang Hari, Las Piñas signs ang nakalagay. Portion na pala yun ng Las Piñas

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What is this friendship sticker? Is that the BF Homes sticker? Buti nalang may ganyan din kami para makaiwas sa traffic along Alabang-Zapote road especially within the vicinity of SM Southmall



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The friendship sticker is issued by the LPC Government. You can go from Philamlife Village until Daang hari passing thru BF Resort, Moonwalk and Pilar Village. They issue like every 2 years. Pipila ka lang sa munisipyo, show your proof of residency bibigyan ka nila.

True at least now you can bypass the entire strech of Alabang-Zapote Road via Naga Road then through BF Paranaque. For those not that familiar with Las Pinas or its traffic, our only main thouroughfare is the 4-lane Alabang-Zapote Road that services almost half a million people. Yup traffic here is that bad. :nuts:

The traffic situation on Alabang-Zapote road is really nightmarish at any given time of day or night. Jeepneys and buses plying that route are aplenty, and most of their drivers are an undisciplined lot. Unfortunately, no politician or incumbent elected government official has dared to address in solving this problem.

The traffic situation on Alabang-Zapote road is really nightmarish at any given time of day or night. Jeepneys and buses plying that route are aplenty, and most of their drivers are an undisciplined lot. Unfortunately, no politician or incumbent elected government official has dared to address in solving this problem.

What do you think of the Friendship sticker and friendship Route? isn't that a case of a LGU Official daring to solve a problem?

LP is booming. Since its an old town with old road planning lalo na along Alabang Zapote. Is Road widening possible? It will take a lot of money and guts before you can do that..

Nga pala.. according to study, did you know that people in Las Piñas City are more well off than those from Muntinlupa? :)

Nga pala.. according to study, did you know that people in Las Piñas City are more well off than those from Muntinlupa? :)

Uy starting a CVC... Hehe. I guess that's because Las Pinas would have more people living inside gated subdivisions than Muntinlupa. Some areas of Muntinlupa are really masa like those along the riles and facing the Laguna.

Nga pala.. according to study, did you know that people in Las Piñas City are more well off than those from Muntinlupa? :)

any proof of that study? ^^

Well in reality , its otherwise coz mas malaki ang income ng Muntinlupa City .

With all the luxurious and huge villages such as Ayala Alabang , Alabang Hills , Hillsborough , Posadas then yung Susana Heights napasok na rin ng SM developments and yung ibang mayayaman ay nasa various condominiums naman ....

Anyway kung ang basehan ay ang dami ng villages so be it ..but definitely mas well -off sa developments and infrastuctures ang Muntinlupa and that's it.

You can actually look into the figures of the National Statistics Office. My company is into Franchising kasi. We saw that according to the study mas maraming high-income families sa Las Piñas. Though maraming high-end subdivision sa Muntinlupa, mas malaki pa rin ang mga income ng nasa Las Piñas. Kaya from having 3 branches in LP, we now have 5 in just a year.

We have 6 in Muntinlupa but concentrated in Alabang area only and one in Tunasan.

@crispypata, well was the statistics a mean average (like income per capita) or the total number of middle class families? if it's the latter then there's no surprise there since Las Pinas has a bigger population than Muntinlupa. If it's the first, well you already said the possible reason, more gated subdivisions in Las Pinas means more middle class and upper class families. Also Muntinlupa has a big squatting problem, just imagine the train tracks running along the whole stretch of the city!

but I also have to agree with @lhexi that Muntinlupa city has slightly better infrastructures than Las Pinas especially those that cater to the social needs of its people like good schools (elementary to university), health centers, multipurpose/covered courts, parks and other recreational facilities.

With regards to Muntinlupa's squatting problem of those slums along the perimeters of the railtracks . it is being resolved now by alloting a 50-hectare mass housing project for those families since they will have to be relocated because the SouthRail project of the national government /PNR is pushing through .

I think Muntinlupa is very lucky to have a very huge hacienda and government farm na nabili ng private companies like the Ayala-Madrigals and the Filinvest group. They developed Alabang into becoming a world class CBD and enclave for the rich.

With regards to the infra projects, Las Piñas also have good public schools and we have also from high-school to university. medyo slightly may edge nga lang ang Munti kasi may malalki silang taxpayer tulad ng Ayala. Kaya mas marami silang pera.

Yung study.. secret... :) :banana: Look kayo sa NSO website.

Add to that yung planned joint venture developmentof the govt./private sector
( probably similar to Filinvest Corp. City) , for the 300 hectare site inside the NBP Reservation area.

I think Muntinlupa is very lucky to have a very huge hacienda and government farm na nabili ng private companies like the Ayala-Madrigals and the Filinvest group. They developed Alabang into becoming a world class CBD and enclave for the rich.

With regards to the infra projects, Las Piñas also have good public schools and we have also from high-school to university. medyo slightly may edge nga lang ang Munti kasi may malalki silang taxpayer tulad ng Ayala. Kaya mas marami silang pera.




same can be said with Makati and Taguig, and look where they are now :okay: The most important thing is how the LGU is managing their budget and how they give these back to its constituents. Like what you've said, Muntinlupa in this case has an edge.

and regarding the NSO study, I just want you to show proof of your earlier statements. I dont have time nor I dont owe no one to provide these info. :wink2:

anyways, enough about Muntinlupa, let's talk about Las Pinas!

Decorations along the Friendship routes is now up.. Malapit ng kumutikutitap ang mga streets of Las Piñas City!

@ Crispy ..ano ng updates sa status nung mga malls sa LP like
RFC
Ever -Gotesco
Uniwide Metromall
Manuela

@ Crispy ..ano ng updates sa status nung mga malls sa LP like
RFC
Ever -Gotesco
Uniwide Metromall
Manuela

RFC-Still operational and busy kahit papaano. Medyo puntahan din yung lugar niya because of the 2 comedy bars sa tabi niya!

Ever-Gotesco - simula nung natayo ang SM unti unting nalugi at hanggang ngayon sara pa din. It was suppose to open with another name but di natuloy for reasons that we do not know

Uniwide-Metro Mall - In decay but still operational hahaha!

Manuela - Refurbished and transformed ito Starmall! Madaming gimikan (Manuela 2 is more developed than Manuela 1 these days.. or should I say as always..)

ghost town na ang Uniwide

^^ Parang nasa Silent Hill na ang mall na yan ah... pero operational pa din ang National Bookstore...

^^Pero sabi ng nanay ko kung gusto niyo ng murang gulay at seafood na sariwa.. sa Uniwide daw mamili.. :lol:

Nakita niyo na yung mga parol sa bawat poste? What do you think? :)

Maraming mall ang hindi na operational,:bash::bash: it reminds me ang ever gotesco diyan pa ako nanood ng Mayor Cesar Climaco Story (1994) ....sayang talaga:ohno:

dati parang it's the best mall in Las Piñas.. pero nawala dahil sa SM.. pero buti na lang at nagka SM tayo!

dati parang it's the best mall in Las Piñas.. pero nawala dahil sa SM.. pero buti na lang at nagka SM tayo!

yup! I agree nag booming lalo ang Las Pinas since nag start ang SM,..kaya everyday super traffic din:bash: o marami na talagang population ang LP?

yup! I agree nag booming lalo ang Las Pinas since nag start ang SM,..kaya everyday super traffic din:bash: o marami na talagang population ang LP?

Eh kasi naman ang pamilya Aguilar is in the real estate business so talagang puro paggawa ng villages ang ginawa nila. Plus ang close ng Las Piñas sa Molino, Cavite na sobrang daming mga nagsulputang subdivision! Kaya ang daming tao!:bash:

Pero buti na lang nagkaroon na ng mga SM Malls sa Sucat, Tunasan, at Molino para ma-decongest ang SM Southmall.

Is Las Piñas a better city now than before? What do you think? :wave:

The City Hall Christmas Lights are up as of last night! Ang ganda! I just don't have time to take pictures! Baka may map[adaan kunan niyo naman!

I have to admit Las Pinas has the most lighted up City Hall for many years. Classy facade too.

Napadaan na naman ako kagabi but I was in a shuttle! They had a concert last night sa City Hall! Sana makuhaan ko ng picture!

I have to admit... the Alabang-Zapote Road is the hellish road in Metro Manila... It took me almost 2 hours to run through Las Pinas Traffic...

I have to admit... the Alabang-Zapote Road is the hellish road in Metro Manila... It took me almost 2 hours to run through Las Pinas Traffic...

Yeah that traffic is also partly the reason the decline of malls in that span of Las Pinas with the exception of Southmall .

^^ Could it be the other way around? I mean that the placement of gargantuan malls along the Alabang-Zapote Road has caused traffic to be hellish...

I was invited by my friende to witness their wedding at Talon December last year. I arrived at the reception place 4 hours later so when I got there, I simply took another bus ride to Baclaran.

Halos sarado na yung mga malls doon but still congested pa rin ang traffic ..the root cause is definitely that theres only one major road in Las Pinas and its just 4 lanes .
But there is hope cause yung ginagawang road between the buildings of SM City Sucat ( extension yata ng C5 ) ay connected sa Las Pinas .Majority of those vacant lands belongs to LP at baka area na yun ang maging development area ng LP in the future.

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Halos sarado na yung mga malls doon but still congested pa rin ang traffic ..the root cause is definitely that theres only one major road in Las Pinas and its just 4 lanes .
But there is hope cause yung ginagawang road between the buildings of SM City Sucat ( extension yata ng C5 ) ay connected sa Las Pinas .Majority of those vacant lands belongs to LP at baka area na yun ang maging development area ng LP in the future.

I think it is... 4 lanes lang ang Alabang-Zapote eh... Pero it's the main heart of Las Pinas. Pero ang kitid ng linya... It's almost as if traveling in a never-ending trip. If they made a flyover here it would've been a miracle. halos 2 oras lalakbayin mo sa trapik...

the problem is, if they repair the main thoroughfare, mas magiging traffic for like one or two years. ayokong umalis ng bahay ng napaka-aga para pumasok sa school.

i guess they should limit the number of public utility vehicles along alabang-zapote road.

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The thoroughfare of Las Pinas is the most suburban residential type in Metro Manila IMHO but they have to fix the traffic. Could this be the reason why mukhang ghost town na ang Uniwide?

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The thoroughfare of Las Pinas is the most suburban residential type in Metro Manila IMHO but they have to fix the traffic. Could this be the reason why mukhang ghost town na ang Uniwide?


From what I've seen ever since SM Southmall opened all the malls in the area went into decline. Uniwide was reduced to a tiangehan, Ever closed, and RFC and Manuela suffered as well. Recently Fernando's, a supermarket closed down. Also prior to Southmall traffic was very smooth and far lighter that what it is today.

^^ I agree.. I think SM is the main reason why these malls closed and not because of the traffic situation.. Kasi sa SM sobrang traffic din pero parang langaw ang mga tao kung pumunta. At least ang Manuela/Starmall na-reinvent pa din niya yung sarili niya so until now medyo karamihan sa shops niya bukas pa din..

Wala bang picture yang Starmall Las Piñas? Naiintriga talaga ako kung anong itsura nyan.

Picture a square buidling na maraming butas.. na may open air pavillion,, merong mga palm trees sa gilid (o coconut ba yun) mimicking GB3 hehehe..

^^ Ah, just as I imagined it would be. Kasi I read here that it's now more of a lifestyle mall and not just a plain shopping mall so a somewhat similar description came into mind. But as much as I have a creative (and naughty :naughty: ) imagination, I'd still want to see a real picture of it. :D

From what I've seen ever since SM Southmall opened all the malls in the area went into decline. Uniwide was reduced to a tiangehan, Ever closed, and RFC and Manuela suffered as well. Recently Fernando's, a supermarket closed down. Also prior to Southmall traffic was very smooth and far lighter that what it is today.

Malakas pa rin namana dati yung Uniwide/RFC/Gotesco kahit may SM Southmall nung early 90s.

Humina lang talaga sila nung itinayo na yung mga gigantic malls in Alabang like Metropolis , Festival Supermall at expanded ATC . Sobrang traffic na kasi bago ka makarating sa Pamplona LP where these malls are located . Ang Southmall naman kasi nasa Almanza lang , and isa pa SM is SM .

Bakit ginawang Divi Park yung pinakataas ng SM Southmall ? And also the top level is very dimly lit ,parang nagtitipid masyado sa lighting . It looks gloomy tuloy dun sa taas .

^^ I agree.. I think SM is the main reason why these malls closed and not because of the traffic situation.. Kasi sa SM sobrang traffic din pero parang langaw ang mga tao kung pumunta. At least ang Manuela/Starmall na-reinvent pa din niya yung sarili niya so until now medyo karamihan sa shops niya bukas pa din..

I believe that's the case. but at least an MRT will be built to help ease the traffic situation. However, they should plan a heavy measure to curb it. Papalapit na ang Bamboo Organ Festival, baka magdagsaan na ang mga tao, lalong tatrapik ang lugar.

Malakas pa rin namana dati yung Uniwide/RFC/Gotesco kahit may SM Southmall nung early 90s.

Humina lang talaga sila nung itinayo na yung mga gigantic malls in Alabang like Metropolis , Festival Supermall at expanded ATC . Sobrang traffic na kasi bago ka makarating sa Pamplona LP where these malls are located . Ang Southmall naman kasi nasa Almanza lang , and isa pa SM is SM .

The bottom line is, awang-awa talaga ako sa Uniwide. the edifice is covered with moss, and it's as if it's a bayou cabin settled in a swamp; it's settled in murky waters...

^^Lahat naman ng Uniwide ngayon ganyan na ang itsura di ba? Kasi sobrang nalugi dahil sa financial crisis.

Can SM Southmall buy the lot beside it? The one with the old building ravished by fire. They need to have an open-air area to house restaurants, coffee shops, and bars.

^^ Yeah, something like the former Megastrip of Megamall or SM Pampanga's Fiesta Strip. I think SM Cebu also has something similar, forgot the name, though.

Can SM Southmall buy the lot beside it? The one with the old building ravished by fire. They need to have an open-air area to house restaurants, coffee shops, and bars.

No need to buy coz SM Southmall is almost 20 hectares lot area itself.

^^ Yeah, something like the former Megastrip of Megamall or SM Pampanga's Fiesta Strip. I think SM Cebu also has something similar, forgot the name, though.

Fiesta Strip din and a new alfresco area at the Northwing

No need to buy coz SM Southmall is almost 20 hectares lot area itself.

They could just transform a section of the parking lot. Di rin naman napupuno e.

Actually, a mga 2 years ago they started renovating the front porch of Southmall facing Alabang Zapote Road. Ginawang mga brick stone (yun ba tawag dun) ang flooring para siguro yung mga restaurants sa area na yun magkaroon ng alfresco dining.:cheers:

still was not working though. anyway, anong name nitong ginagawa na to malapit sa city hall?

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Saw it din.. its near Times.. Actually meron pang isang malaking development near the old Ever mall. Nilagyan na nga nila ng bakod eh..:bash:

will those be commercial spaces for lease?

Mukhang ganon na nga siguro since it's located near Perpetual..

still was not working though. anyway, anong name nitong ginagawa na to malapit sa city hall?

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Gawa na to.. may inauguration last Monday.. Mukhang Camella property sya..

I noticed na may clearing operations sa malaking vacant lot at the back of Wilcon Depot store . Along the Ayala Southvale road kasi yung vacant lot na iyon ..may gagawin kaya dun na project?

By Elizabeth Sanchez-Lacson
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 20:03:00 02/03/2008


MANILA, Philippines--CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPER Anchor Land Holdings Inc. is spending roughly P4.5 billion for new residential establishments this year, company vice chair Steve Li said.

In the second quarter, Anchor Land is set to break ground for “Tribeca Park Suites,” an 18-story twin tower residential, mid-rise condominium in Parañaque City, which aims to offer more than 900 units.
The ground floor area of the condominium may be allocated for business process outsourcing firms.

Anchor Land is setting aside P1.5 billion for Tribeca, named after the trendy residential neighborhood in lower Manhattan, New York which stands for “Triangle below Canal Street.”

With Tribeca, Anchor Land is targeting the middle-income market and plans to offer fully furnished one-bedroom units of roughly 45 square meters for P2 million each.
Tribeca is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011.Anchor Land is also spending around P2.5 to P3 billion for a 50-story residential condominium in Binondo, Manila, Li said.

The high-rise, to be built on a 3,100-sq. m property on Ongpin Street, is envisioned to be the tallest building in the area.

Anchor Land came to possess the property after it acquired Gotamco Investment Realty Corp., a landowner in Manila’s Binondo district.

Gotamco owns five parcels of land with a total area of 3,065.7 sq. m., all located on Ongpin Street in Manila’s Chinatown area.

The new Binondo project, which has yet to be named, will offer fine urban living for members of the Chinese-Filipino community in the area. The building will tower over the city, providing panoramic views of the Manila skyline.

The Binondo project will be Anchor Land’s fifth residential condominium project to date.

One of Anchor Land’s successful projects to date is the 33-story Lee Tower in Binondo, which was delivered ahead of schedule in 2006 and was fully sold out.

Anchor Land is majority-owned and -controlled by Stephen Lee and family. Also, business tycoon Henry Sy is a long-term investor in the firm

meron pa bang plans for Ever/Gotesco, the place could use a facelift.

Saw it din.. its near Times.. Actually meron pang isang malaking development near the old Ever mall. Nilagyan na nga nila ng bakod eh..:bash:

ito ba yung something like a 12F hotel?? anyone got a pic?

hmm.. Ill see kung makakuha ako ng pics ha..

Pasay is an entrepot for everyone's commerce, a port of call for airlines of all nations, a destination for cargo, a junction for currencies, and an inviting place for anyone to make some cold, hard cash. Natives and foreigners of all kinds, like traders of old, are forever coming and going.


The urge for profit, the taste for good living, the flair for the best there is, the drive, the energy, the mayhem- everything is here. East and West merge in the city streets. The circumstances are truly exciting. Their chances of wealth are real. Opportunities knock not once but often, and with much urgency. There is a raffish and vagabond element in the chase for the gold that holds the future in thrall.


There seems to be a single-minded obsession with the making of money, any which way one can. There is also the perpetual pursuit of an underlying security, which makes everything more tense, more nervous. Everyone, rich or poor, of every age and race, is frankly out fir the big break. Pasay is not a place of pathos, perhaps not the right environment for the pious that crowds the nearby Baclaran church. Pasay has always been a venue for free enterprise, a town of services, trade, finance, insurance, real estate, transport, manufacturing, entertainment, public utilities, and so on and so forth. The stress of Pasay's industriousness is best seen when the day's work begins and ends and the transport system are strained. Then the light come on and Pasay braces for the night. The night is another day.


Like it or not, Pasay offers a brazen bazaar for instant opportunism. It swarms with speculators of every sort, building properties and selling them, buying into one another's business, selling each other out, plotting joint ventures or scheming takeover bids. It offers a window of entry for foreigners. Today they have their fingers in every pot - investment firms, banks, hotels, restaurants and stores. The Japanese, for instance, are back in full force and confidence. Their products dominate the landscape. Toyotas, Nissan and Hondas are everywhere; so are Sony's and Panasonics. The Philippines stock market would be thinner without their yen; the bars and massage parlors would languish were it not for their patronage.


Know more about Pasay : http://www.pasay.gov.ph

From a pilot's vantage point, one sees the sprawl of Pasay's usual urban landmarks: multi-story structures of glass and steel towering over low-level houses, amid pockets of tropical vegetation.

Height and distance of course lend enchantment, Prowling around on foot, however, reveals a city that seethes and hisses like a cauldron, enmeshed in a labyrinth of streets and anguished with the ills that perplex most cities-population pressure, housing shortages, slums, smog, juvenile delinquency, crime, inadequate water supply, and the curse of the automobile. The pace of life is so unremitting and the sense of survival so unrelenting that one gets overwhelmed by the sheer volume of human commotion and mechanical motion. And yet not far from the chaos can be found a way of life (opposite page) essentially unchanged for centuries.


On the surface, Pasay looks modern, without a trace of the past, at least as far as there is any visible, tangible evidence of it. But the harrowed earth and the fish traps (page 12) speak of past datus and dayang-dayangs. Where the city now spreads, small villages once thrived, and in some parts, still for (opposite). Rice was once cultivated in fields now under cement and shrines dedicated to gods of fertility and abundance stood among groves now buried under high-rises. But perhaps without knowing it, the farmers of today are drawing upon these deep wellsprings from which a great part of their cultural - not just their religion - flows. Pasay still has roots that run deep into its past. Beyond a cluster of trees, people still tend their chickens in coops, grow fruits, water their plots with sprinklers (opposite below, ) and sow and reap according to the dictate of nature. Village life remains resilient and ancestral.


But the people who wake up to the crowing of cooks are a vanishing tribe compared to the swelling numbers of those who jar themselves from sleep by click, phone, or the racket of radio. They leap out of dwellings of various sizes and costs, rush through doors and gates, and burst forth onto the streets, causing a huge ceaseless rumble and tumult all through the day. Cars and buses rush by like grunting, charging bulls, and then groan to sudden stops to load or unload. The avenues are choked with the metal flow of vehicles (above). The streets whirl like a vortex of frenetic activity. Jumbo jetliners sheiks down like giant seabirds, not quite two hundred feet above the light railway trains, or LRTs hurtling from one turbulent station to the next. One can only imagine the flaring tempers that arise from this chaos. Crowded street in Pasay subject its citizens to stress in many forms, not least in the agile competition for elbow room, which calls for a series of bumping, halting, and quick sidestepping any which way one is inclined.


Everywhere in Pasay one confronts the salary man culture: the never-ending pursuit of middle-class security and status symbols; the new religion of "my home," "my car," "my children's school." But it is this driven sector, this vast rather homogeneous, and uninspiring mass of commuters, who are largely responsible for keeping the wheels of the economy turning relentlessly forward, filling and emptying its cornucopia of goods and services.


The ways to go around are varied. Most public transport is by bus, jeepney, LRT, and tricycles. The Traffic is an agony. Parking is a headache. The city is always a street behind, a flyover short. There is catching up to do. On weekdays, congestion at rush hour keeps speeds on Pasay's main arteries down to 11 KPH - about as fast as a bicycle. The lowly two-wheeler would have a somewhat more auspicious setting on a village's main street but it is an appropriate symbol of the past when pitted against the soaring future in the form of a jetliner, parked within spitting distance from it (opposite page). This is just one of so many striking contrasts that collide with each other at every turn in this city.


Both the domestic and international airports are in Pasay and these serve to conduct the city's intercourse with the outside world. Pasay greets an advantage of two searches of better chances in foreign lands. At any given time there are a dozen aircraft parked before the terminal. The tricolor of Philippine Airlines aircraft predominates. PAL, as locals call it, is the nation's official carrier, noted for its pretty, smiling, and stewardesses. Next to the PAL Boeings and Airbuses are aircraft from JAL, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Lufthansa, United and Northwest. Most are long-haul 747s or new Airbuses.


Pasay is a crossroad, a junction, a meeting point. The standard icebreaker would be "Where are you from?' People come by bus and train; others by car and airplane. They come from every part of the country and the world. Arrivals and departures spark a good deal of the social machinery but "machineries" might be more accurate, according to economic classes. Both classes are driven by the motor; work, the duly to make a living, the ambition to acquire status step by step, the need to affirm earning purposes, but the yields are worlds apart. Wealth and poverty are close neighbors in Pasay, and this much they have in common: the sight of one another is frightening.


The vast majority of Pasay's poor citizens are jampacked in places that are often defined by the way people conduct their daily lives. The city is full of Ilocanos, Pampangos, Bicolanos, Ilonggos and Cebuanos, and vernacular accents and high-pitched chatter is heard among the tenements, even as their rival music clash through the walls. They are squeezed into rooms, surrounded with all the standard manifestations of modern accessory: the garish bric-a-brac, the gaudy furniture, the potted plastic plants massed on tables and shelves, although a good number of the shanties triumphantly flaunt their television aerials.


Housing projects struggle to keep pace with the exploding population. Villages on the perimeter of the airport complex - Villamor, Aero, and Rivera - are small, quiet communities where the sing-song cries of street vendors replace the roar of traffic. Here, their separateness is maintained by street too narrow for large vehicles and by the absence of street names, providing a sense of cozy isolation for the inhabitants.


So do the old residences that continue to defy the encroaching structures of glass and steel and the frenzied pace of a surging metropolis. Most of the owners lead quiet lives. Their houses, sometimes situated on busy streets, lie hidden behind tall fences. They face in, not out. But in a city convulsed by a fury of construction, they provide a continuity that transcends the endings and beginnings of the physical city. In their defiance they present a way of life as profound as their appearances. Many of these houses are reminders of long-gone days.

Everywhere in Pasay one confronts the salary man culture: the never-ending pursuit of middle-class security and status symbols; the new religion of "my home," "my car," "my children's school." But it is this driven sector, this vast rather homogeneous, and uninspiring mass of commuters, who are largely responsible for keeping the wheels of the economy turning relentlessly forward, filling and emptying its cornucopia of goods and services.

Many of the business firms in Pasay are engaged, in one way or another, in the visitors' trade, whether as an extension of the transport industry, or as a useful adjunct to real estate, or even as a source of foreign currency. Pasay has become a great center for international congresses and trade exhibitions and symposia of every imaginable type and size. There are hundreds of these gathering every year. Filipinos, by nature hospitable and gregarious people, enjoy organizing meetings and conventions of cardiologists, surgeons, accountants, economists, businessmen, lawyers, retailers, Jaycees, Rotarians, and scuba divers. They move people about by the hundreds with the precision of ballet troupes and with that genuine Malayan delight in ceremony.


To house this multitude Pasay has three five-star hotels - the Westin Philippine Plaza by the bay and the Heritage and Hyatt along Roxas Boulevard. The Philippine Village Hotel is a stone's throw way from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and the Traders (formerly the Holiday Inn) is right across from the Cultural Center. Most of them were built in 1976, in anticipation of the arrival of delegates to the International Monetary Fund conference. Great fortunes have been made from the hotel industry, and several merchant and sugar families have been hoteliers at one time or another. In obscurer sites, especially among the winking and knowing streets of San Rafael, are a great number of motels, ranging from modestly respectable lodging to houses of frank disrepute.

High above, on the roofs of tall building, brilliant neon signs proclaim a variety of logos and products. Glowing, flashing and bustling, ritzy hotels and restaurants on Roxas Boulevard beckon to big-spending local and foreign businessmen with expense accounts. In between them, Carinderias and beer joints, speckled with paler lights, send their own signals for the weary worker to take it easy and to have a drink before turning home.

Elsewhere the city dazzles with the riot of small neon signs flashing messages in all the color of the rainbow. Vast panoply of neon advertisements lends the whole area a gaudy glow. Huge signs march one behind another far down the boulevard, their design determined by the variety of their entertainment - cinemas, bowling alleys, carnival rides, restaurant, beer joints, dance hall, and massage parlors.

Far from the dragon sounds of Pasay's frenetic streets is the Nayong Pilipino, or Philippine Cultural Village, a thirty-five hectare oasis of rustic tranquility that helps make life tolerable amid the frenzied pace of an otherwise overwhelming city. Closed to wheeled traffic, only a selected number of jeepney (above) is allowed to take visitors around this civic nature reserve. The park is planned to hundreds of species of flowers and trees where a startling variety of birds nest and breed (opposite page). Here Pasayeños come in ones and twos and in groups to breaths the fresh air, collect their thoughts, and be themselves.

But the Nayong Pilipino is more than just a park; it is the Philippines in a nutshell. Around the wide lagoon in the center, created by workers who kept digging until they reached the water table, are six regions depicted by landmarks and landscapes typical of each. The Mountain Province is recreated on an elevated clearing with rice terraces, Ifugao huts and hills planted to pine trees. Mainly Vigan, The capital of Ilocos Sur, represents the Northern Province, which was a powerful bishopric during the Spanish times. The Vigan house in the heart of the village was built out of parts actually transported beam for beam, railing for railing, tile for tile, from its original site.


The perfect sulphur cone of Mayon Volcano and the ruins of the Cagsawa Church synthesize Bicolandia. The Tagalog Region displays a plaza reminiscent of old pueblos while the Visayan section features a house of Spanish Design, with a paseo shaded by trellised walks. The Muslim region is recreated through a Maranaw Mosque and a Tausug stilt house.


Tourism was the impetus for the park's development. The buildings were obviously intended to become attractions unto themselves. Inside a number of them are weavers working at their looms and carver chiseling at wood. But if nothings else, the structures so perfectly blend with the surroundings, and in moments of weather changes and personal distress, they offer shelter, convenience, and comfort.


Everybody is welcome to partake of the park's serenity and grace. There are wooded acres, nooks and byways that can be enjoyed by tourism, sportsmen, health faddist, retirees taking their ease, and youths letting off steam. People can relax with family and friends, play cards or chess, or indulge in two national pastimes - eating and gossiping.


There is a lot of activity everywhere but it is relaxed activity. Although children swarm over the "Chocolate Hills," most adults avoid anything more strenuous than a gentle row on the lake. Strollers walk at a sedate pace, watch open-air performance and concerts, or just let the hours tick way in some secluded, sun-dappled corner. The quietude that envelops the place is a miracle of the fact that one can live in the heart of Pasay and yet a short ride away lies a park that is oblivious to the ruckus of the city, a bucolic setting that preserves a small town's intimate charm, a sanctuary that provides a sense of cozy isolation where one finds a truly quiet corner.


The pleasures of Roxas Boulevard are varied, from costly to cheap to free. The palm-fringed thoroughfare continues to hold sway over the crescent of Manila Bay, taking visitors for a breezy welcome ride to the heart of the metropolis from the airport, which is a short left turn from its southern end. When the tide is low, men, women and children hike up their clothes and gather shells and clams from the shallows. In summer, they their clothes off and swim in the waters. Every now and then, in the mornings, strollers and joggers are treated to a movie in the making. In the afternoons people gather and jockey for space on the entire stretch of the seawall to get the best seat in town for one of the greatest shows on earth, for free - the famed Manila Bay sunset.

Whatever prose has been crafted about the sunset is hand-hewn with wonder. The setting is plain: water, weather, sky, and land. But the sun works with a will to stage an awesome drama.

The sun on its way down into the sea takes the viewer by the eye and the hair of the skin. It paints the city with soft pink at five in the afternoon and burns up to a fiery orange at six. The wind ripples the waters and the sun scatters luminous rubies on the ruffles. The trees along the bay all take on the same color, turning rose and purple while the wind shakes their leaves which hand down to the ground their crimson forms. The shadows of the viewers leap up on the sides of the trunks or are flung upon the ground as the light, the day's final benediction, touches their faces with the cooling fingers of sea breezes.


Then suddenly the sun drops. The drama has no act for twilight after sundown. But long before the sun goes down the theater revels in the changing cloud and color display. It covers well half the heavens and the glowing colors changes rapidly, reflected by the entire bay. The rays of white light streak toward the shore in long slanting lines across a world growing dim in grays and finally to mysterious black as the last bright streak fades from the sky when the final curtain comes down.


But before darkness sets in Pasay turns on its lights. Orange beacons like illuminated pumpkins, nark the long roads and avenues while smaller light flash, on has ever flown into Pasay at night is likely to forget the tingle of the experience as the sea unfolds around one's windows, as the myriad lights glitter, first from the lights of the ships at sea and then from the buildings rushing by. One then lands on the light lined runway between two flickering subdivisions, and with the deep dark blue of the bay on one side and the starry blue of the sky for a backdrop, and with all the lights all around, one feel being inside an illuminated bowl.


While fine art, layered and webbed with reference, must be returned to and contemplated upon, performance art offers easier access. The pleasure it evokes is direct and immediate. A single sun radiates on the world of dance and music, and almost everybody can partake of its warmth. The social reach is wider than that of fine art, and it finds the ground for its flourish on hybrid forms of short-impact effects verging on spectacle.

Spectacular performances are often staged at the Cultural Center and the Folk Arts Theater. Through the years, the main theater has served as the venue for local presentations of the Repertory Philippines, Manila Symphony Society, National Philharmonic Society, Hariraya Dance Company, Karilagan Cultural Arts International, and the world-famous Bayanihan Dance Company. In addition, the parks and playgrounds of the Nayong Pilipino are readily convertible into theaters where performing troupes regale their audiences with songs and dances of the different regions.

Dati ang Pasay Public Market ang isa sa pinakamadumi at mabahong public market ngayon ito na ang isa sa pinakamaganda Public Market sa buong Pilipinas. Sana ma-maintain ito ng maayos.

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Home of the following

SM Mall of Asia
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PICC
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NAIA
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GSIS Building (Philippine Senate)
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Star City
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Nayong Pilipino
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additional buildings and offices

World Trade Center
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Villamor Airbase
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CCP
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Coconut Palace
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Cuneta Astrodome
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Some of Major Developments in Pasay City

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SM BayCity

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NEWPORT CITY (UN)MASTERPLAN! :)

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Including the Bagong Nayong Pilipino (PAGCOR Entertainment City).

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Eton to develop hotel-condominium project in Parañaque
LUCIO TAN-owned Eton Properties Philippines, Inc. is looking to develop a hotel and condominium component in a property in Parañaque City.

BY LOVELY NICA P. LEE, Reporter
The Business World

"We’re still doing the master plan. This [project] is outside of the seven priority projects [of the company]," said Eton President Danilo E. Ignacio in an interview.

Mr. Ignacio said the hotel and condominium project will rise on a 7.8-hectare lot located at the reclamation area near the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.’s Pagcor City in Parañaque.

He added that the lot was among the assets foreclosed by the Philippine National Bank and Allied Banking Corp., which are also part of the Lucio Tan group of companies.

Last year, Eton said it would be spending P10 billion for its priority projects in key cities in Metro Manila over the next five years.

It began the construction of the 17-storey Eton IT Center at Garnet and Sapphire Streets in Ortigas Center in the third quarter of 2007.

The IT Center will cater to business process outsourcing companies.

It will also start to develop in the second quarter of the year the all-loft upscale condominium, Eton Residences Greenbelt.

The project will stand on the old Philippine Airlines offices in Legaspi Village, Makati.

Eton would also be developing a mixed-use high-rise residential project targeted for the middle class in Pasong Tamo.

Another project catering to the same market will also rise near East of Galleria in Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Meanwhile, a condominium building will be constructed in the former Hotel Otani along Roxas Boulevard in Manila.

Eton also plans to convert the Lucio Tan Group’s 34-hectare property in Mactan, Cebu into a leisure-retirement project that may include a hotel.

Eton will also develop a mixed-use facility on the lot on the corner of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue and Quezon Avenue, in Quezon City.

The company, however, has yet to decide what kind of development will rise on the property, which is currently occupied by billboards and terminals for public transportation.

Eton said it is still exploring ways to raise funds for the projected expenses. It is considering equity infusions and a follow-on offering as alternative financing.

Eton is the real estate arm of the Lucio Tan Group, which has diverse investments ranging from tobacco and beverage manufacturing, financial services, airline operations and bottlery.

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Pasay is still one of the most important cities in our country. These developments could rival Makati, Ortigas or QC in the future. I just hope do they something drastic to rehabilitate most their depressed areas.

I thought Coconut Palace was in Manila. I guess I got confused with my geography again.

^^nagsisimula na developments sa pagcor land! yihee!

I just hope it won't be named Bagong Nayong Pilipino-PAGCOR City Entertainment Complex. :lol:

i hope they would name it bagong nayong pilipino-philippine gaming and amusement board city entertainment complex by the bay

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Home of butiking pasay.

^^ todo ang haba... :lol:

^^ todo ang haba... :lol:

UU nga. Baka lalo madiscourage... Pagsambit pa lang pahirapan na! Pwede sa Macau o Vegas na lang? Hehehe :lol:

merung ngang sari sari store somwhere sa antipolo na hinde ko alam yung pangalan nya, pero mas mahaba sa superkalifragelisticexpialidocious hahahahah

BTW, someone buzz me this info.

there will be a HYPERMARKET (Las Piñas) along alabang - zapote road and construction would start in 2nd qtr.

also a cluster condo (i think 6 bldgs) somewhere in diosdado macapagal ave., in pasay city...parang "Flamingo" something by SM
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anyone from las piñas forumer kung saan most probably ito??

BTW, someone buzz me this info.

there will be a HYPERMARKET (Las Piñas) along alabang - zapote road and construction would start in 2nd qtr.

also a cluster condo (i think 6 bldgs) somewhere in diosdado macapagal ave., in pasay city...parang "Flamingo" something by SM

hmm.. Baka yan yung Ever sa may Pamplona... Pero may Southmall na sa Las Piñas eh..

^^ I hope that will materialize!

Ano ba yung ginagawang parang high-rise (or is it mid-rise?) somewhere near the cityhall?

BTW, someone buzz me this info.

there will be a HYPERMARKET (Las Piñas) along alabang - zapote road and construction would start in 2nd qtr.

also a cluster condo (i think 6 bldgs) somewhere in diosdado macapagal ave., in pasay city...parang "Flamingo" something by SM

Talaga? Mukhang magandang project to. Flamingo sounds like Vegas. :banana:

wala pa ding mga signage until now!

Pasay opens business district in reclamation area

By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Posted date: March 07, 2008

MANILA, Philippines – A new business district with classy hotels, entertainment centers and docking facilities for yachts and cruise ships is expected to rise in Pasay City’s reclamation area.

Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad signed Wednesday afternoon a memorandum of agreement with the West Marina Bay Development Inc. for the development of idle bay areas or reclaimed shorelines in Pasay.

The P15 billion Pasay Near Shore Development Project is expected to be bigger than the SM Mall of Asia complex that occupies 1.2 square kilometers.

“This MOA is evidence of the confidence of developers in the present city leadership, another big step towards making the city the center of commerce and trade,” Trinidad said.

The project will be developed in three phases on a build-operate-transfer scheme. Each phase will cost P5 billion.

The project will be located just behind the SM Mall of Asia and would cover at least 5 square kilometers, Trinidad said.

“We envisioned this eight years ago. This, apart from what is already in place at the city’s Central Business District, will help us become the prime business and tourist destination in Asia,” the mayor said.

Trinidad signed the contract with Greg Alcera, WMBDI president; Vice Mayor Antonino Calixto and WMBDI officers Mario Concepcion, Alexander Elma, Sheila San Diego and Alvin San Diego.

The project is covered by the city council’s resolution No. 2267 signed Feb. 29, allowing the mayor to appoint any reputable developer as the “integrator and pioneering proponent for the development of existing bay areas near the city’s Central Business District under a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme.”

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080307-123248/Pasay-opens-business-district-in-reclamation-area

^^ Is this different from the PAGCOR E-City?

Pasay opens business district in reclamation area

By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Posted date: March 07, 2008

MANILA, Philippines – A new business district with classy hotels, entertainment centers and docking facilities for yachts and cruise ships is expected to rise in Pasay City’s reclamation area.

Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad signed Wednesday afternoon a memorandum of agreement with the West Marina Bay Development Inc. for the development of idle bay areas or reclaimed shorelines in Pasay.

The P15 billion Pasay Near Shore Development Project is expected to be bigger than the SM Mall of Asia complex that occupies 1.2 square kilometers.

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Amazing Pasay! Any news about its residential component?

There should be some condos and townhouses in the area.

^^ Is this different from the PAGCOR E-City?

It's different. I hope it's different. :lol:

By Julie M. Aurelio (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080308-123591/Houses-shops-lining-Las-Pias-road-adopt-Old-World-look)
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:57:00 03/08/2008

ON A 3.3-KILOMETER stretch of road in Las Piñas City, the buildings and lamp posts seem to be stuck in a time warp, more specifically, in the Spanish era. The walls of the structures resemble adobe bricks while the lamp posts are made of wrought iron.

It is not by accident, however, that the houses and establishments on Fr. Diego Cera Avenue have acquired a Castilian look. Rather, it is a must for those who live or do business in the area, home to several of the city’s landmarks which are over 100 years old.

The avenue was named after Fr. Diego Cera, the city’s parish priest in 1795 who initiated the construction of the Las Piñas Church and its most famous tenant, the world-renowned bamboo organ.

“The idea is to restore the landmarks on Fr. Diego Cera Avenue and for the people to have an appreciation of the city’s rich history,” said Dexter Gonzales, an engineer working on the Las Piñas Historical Corridor project.

The project, a brainchild of then Rep. Manny Villar (now a senator) is aimed at restoring and preserving the city’s historical and cultural landmarks.

Toward this end, Villar sponsored Republic Act 8003 which named the Las Piñas Church and Bamboo Organ, Las Piñas Bridge, the Asinan Area, Fr. Diego Cera Bridge and the Old District Hospital as tourist destinations.

The measure was passed into law in 1995.

The Historical Corridor spans the entire length of the Fr. Diego Cera Avenue. It begins at the border of Cavite province and the renovated Zapote Bridge in Las Piñas. It ends at the city’s boundary with Parañaque City.

The Zapote Bridge, half of which was blown up by Filipino soldiers during the Philippine Revolution, was later restored. It is now used by pedestrians to cross Zapote River.

“Right now, the old Fr. Diego Cera bridge has been torn down to be renovated in the old design, of course,” Gonzales said.

Other landmarks of the Historical Corridor include the Manpower Building, Irasan (Salt Making) Center, Gabaldon School, Plaza Quezon as well as the old fire station and municipal hall.

The Gabaldon School is one of the few existing structures in Metro Manila designed by American architect William Parsons.

The centuries-old brick walls of the Las Piñas Church, meanwhile, were stripped to reveal their inner layer, giving the church an antique look.

To ensure that the avenue maintains its old world look, the city government passed an ordinance requiring new structures to adopt the Castilian look.

“But for existing ones like houses and other buildings, we just ask them if they are willing to have their facades painted over with synthetic adobe to give it an old red bricks effect,” explained Gonzales.

So far, most residents on the thoroughfare have followed the suggestion. “We have a 7-11 store with its walls painted to look like adobe bricks and its roof made of tiles,” he added.

The city government and the engineers on Villar’s staff also make use of iron grills, synthetic adobe, terra cotta paint, wrought iron and wood with an antique finish to give the avenue a look similar to Vigan, Ilocos Sur’s city with a Spanish colonial look.

Gonzales said he does not have an estimate of how much the city has spent to renovate and maintain the Historical Corridor.

The repair of the Zapote Bridge, alone, cost over P5 million, he added.

At least P100,000 is spent on the corridor’s maintenance as thieves sometimes make off with parts of the lampposts which they sell to junk shops.

“We can’t avoid those kinds of problems. In fact, we still have to install 100 more lampposts for the entire road,” said Patrick de Leon, an engineer in charge of maintaining the corridor.

The sight of vehicles and people in modern clothing offers a stark contrast to the old structures on the avenue. But residents are now used to their not-so-ordinary surroundings.

“Actually, they are quite proud of the city’s heritage and of the history of this road,” De Leon said.

Anyone here know something about Metropolitan Park owned by Metrobank? I heard of it but haven't seen any rendering yet of this proposed CBD.

With two major convention centers (PICC & SMX), Pasay is the one true convention capital of the Philippines.:banana:WALANG PUWEDENG KUMONTRA!

^^ Alam ko may isang city pa na mas maraming ginaganap na convention. Cebu yata. :D

That is so debatable. At the risk of starting a CvC, all I know is that Pasay has PICC, SMX and WTC. Cebu can be second.

Avida Towers Sucat

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i hope they would name it bagong nayong pilipino-philippine gaming and amusement board city entertainment complex by the bay

How about this?

Bagong Nayong Pilipino-International Amusement, Gaming, Theme Park, Resort, and Life Style complex at Bay City of Parananaque, Las Pinas, and Manila or Tri-area City in the Philippines. :lol: :lol:

I saw a banner that BF Homes will soon have a water supply by MWSS-Maynilad . It has Gloria on it .

^ Yeah I saw that too.

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Pasay earmarks P15 B for bay area dev’t
By Rhodina Villanueva
Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Pasay City government has allocated P15 billion to develop the city’s bay area and jumpstart the city’s bid to become a “prime business and tourist destination in Asia.”

“The project entails the development of existing bay areas or reclaimed shorelines. The target area will even be larger than the SM Mall of Asia complex, also located in the city’s bay area, which is nearly 1.2 square kilometers. The project, to rise just behind the mall’s premises, will cover at least five square kilometers,” Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad said.

He said the “Pasay Near-Shore Development Project” has three phases that will be undertaken under a build-operate-transfer scheme by a private firm – the West Marina Bay Development Inc. (WMBDI) – in coordination with the city government.

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I WANT A PROJECT TOO. I WANT A PROJECT TOO! NOT FAIR!


Actually Pasays project instead of deluding itself that it can muster such a large investment is to put money into fixing up that PIGPEN of a road called Edsa from magallanes to roxas blvd so that people from Makati and north can actually reach these mega projects in Manila Bay in a civilised way. Only after that will it will have a chance to attract investments into its city.

It's very different.
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Plans for biggest RP tourism dev’t project bared today
Manila Bulletin
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080402120806.html

Four concepts for the Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City – the Philippines’ biggest tourism development project ever – will be unveiled during the Gaming and Investment Conference for the 2008 Asia’s Gaming and Entertainment plus Leisure Expo (Asia’s GEM) today, Wednesday, April 2.

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor), through Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Efraim C. Genuino, will announce details of the approved concepts for the project in the conference at the Hyatt Hotel and Casino in Malate, Manila.

When completed, the $ 15-billion project is expected to boost tourist arrivals in the country by over a million to three million annually, generate over 250,000 new jobs, and dramatically increase government earnings.

A big local firm and conglomerates from Australia, Japan, and Malaysia submitted the approved concepts for the Bagong Nayong Pilipino, which also formally breaks ground during Asia’s Gem 2008.

All concepts for the project underscore the Philippines as a major tourist destination and an ideal site for "integrated resort" developments – that is, an entertainment and leisure complex that features a complete range of world-class amenities for people of all ages.

The proponents see the Bagong Nayong Pilipino having six-star hotels, gaming facilities, malls, museums, cultural centers, sports arenas, residential villages, and theme parks, with slight variations in each of the four proposals.

One proponent sees the Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City, which will initially be built in 90 hectares of prime reclaimed land, as a "live, work, and play" complex 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The concept includes hotels and a popular theme park.

Another sees a resort with symbolic landmarks and amenities that represent "the very best of their type in Asia," including one of the largest Ferris wheels in the world.

Another foreign proponent sees the Bagong Nayong Pilipino built around three hotels facing Manila Bay, positioned to create "an unmistakable skyline address" for its resort complex.

A fourth sees the project having an "iconic structure" while seamlessly integrating with the existing amenities in the area.

Pagcor Chairman Genuino, who sees the project as the state-run firm’s ultimate legacy and contribution to the recovery of the country’s economy, said that the Bagong Nayong Pilipino will, "without cost to the government, create endless opportunities for local businessmen and generate jobs for our people."

Besides billions of dollars worth of revenues for the government in terms of direct foreign investments, lease payments, taxes, and tourism receipts, the Manila Bay Integrated City is expected to induce growth in locally based industries such as construction, information technology, food and beverage, hospitality, entertainment, and transportation.

Genuino has proposed that locators in the Bagong Nayong Pilipino pay salaries to their workers in US dollars, so Filipinos can earn as much as their counterparts in the gaming and entertainment industry abroad without leaving their families behind.

Pagcor co-presents Asia’s GEM 2008 with the EuroAsian Cooperation on Gaming Association (ECG), which Genuino heads as interim chairman. The expo is organized by the Asian GEM and Tourism Foundation, Inc.


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Pagcor looking for new site for project’s phase 2
By Max V. de Leon
Business Mirror
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/0404&052008/economy02.html

JUST fresh from approving four proposals for the envisioned $10-billion Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) announced that it is now shopping around for another site that will house the second phase of the project.

Efraim Genuino, Pagcor chairman and CEO, said Phase 2 of the project will be located outside Metro Manila, with Cebu as one of the prime candidates.

“We are already discussing the second phase and we have identified possible areas,” Genuino said.

He said as much as Pagcor wants to entertain more proposals from prospective investors for the Manila Bay Integrated City, the 90-hectare reclaimed area dedicated for this gaming-cum-entertainment resort will already be used up by the initial four project proponents.

“We are studying the market if there is a need to accept more proposals. But the problem is, there is no more space available there, so we are now discussing the second phase,” Genuino told reporters at the sidelines of the ongoing 2008 Asia’s Gaming and Entertainment plus Leisure Expo (Asia’s Gem) at the Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila.

Pagcor announced it has accepted the project proposals of Japan’s Aruze Corp., Genting Berhad of Malaysia, SM Investments Corp. and Australia’s Bloombery Investments Ltd. with average investments of $2 billion to $3 billion each.

Azure Corp., a major stockholder of Wynn Resorts and a renowned manufacturer of gaming machines, proposed the development of the Okada Resort Manila Bay.

It will be an integrated casino resort with 2,000 standard rooms and 300 VIP suites. Its main features would be an oceanarium targeted to be the world’s largest, theaters and a giant Ferris wheel similar to the London Eye and will be called the “Manila Eye.”

Genting Berhard, with its partners Star Cruises and Alliance Global Group Inc., is planning to build several hotels with a minimum capacity of 2,000 rooms and a world-class theme park. The company owns and operates the Genting Highlands Resort in Malaysia.

SM Investments Corp. proposed to put up a gaming facility in partnership with Asia-Pacific Gaming of Australia, and a major luxury hotel to be managed by Radisson Hotels & Resorts at the Mall of Asia Complex side of the Manila Bay Integrated City.

Bloombery Investments Ltd., on the other hand, is planning to build three luxury hotels with a total capacity of 1,500 rooms, with high-end retail shops, celebrity-themed dining, and a major entertainment and sports center.

The four groups had the ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, and they are set to begin actual development by the third quarter of the year, Genuino said.

Meanwhile, Genuino said Pagcor is poised to increase its revenues this year by at least 11 percent to P30 billion from P27 billion last year.

Gaming consultant Dean Macomber, president of Macomber International, said in his presentation at the Asia’s Gem that the Philippines’ gaming industry can achieve revenues of up to $1.08 billion in 2010 and $1.8 billion by 2013.

Macomber said these numbers will increase further once the effects of the Manila Bay Integrated City kick in.

Currently, Macomber said the country’s gaming revenue is estimated at only $800 million, with the big majority coming from local players at $613 million.

He said although the Philippines is attracting up to 3 million foreign tourists per year, most are coming in not only to gamble but also to do business or just relax in the resorts.

“That is one good reason why Pagcor wants this integrated resort to create that interest,” Macomber said.

Once the country has offered a higher quality of gaming and entertainment experience to foreigners, the deeper it can penetrate the market, he said.

Once fully operational—the earliest by 2010—the integrated resort facility is seen to increase the country’s gaming revenues by at least 30 percent.

It is also expected to boost foreign tourist arrivals by up to 3 million individuals annually and generate over 250,000 fresh jobs.

^^ The Bay area is looking up!

So is this Pagcor Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City not really in Pasay but
Manila as these articles indicate? Saan ba talaga ito para hindi naman malito ang mga tao?

Rising soon: Manila Bay Strip
Business Mirror
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/0404&052008/opinion01.html

Some 60 kilometers southwest of Hong Kong is the former Portuguese colony of Macau. With a total land area of 28.6 sq km, it is smaller than Mayor Alfredo Lim’s City of Manila, which covers 38.55 sq km. Macau has a population of a little over half a million, less than a third of the Philippine capital city’s official count of 1.5 million people.

So how could such a tiny spit of land have generated over $17 billion as gross domestic product (GDP) in 2006? That kind of GDP makes for a per-capita income of $28,853—again in 2006 American dollars. Macau’s economy has been growing at over 13 percent annually—tracking and sometimes leading the consistently robust growth rates of the entire Chinese economy.

If he were still alive, paramount leader Deng Xiaoping—who almost single-handedly modernized his country by adopting “socialism with Chinese characteristics”—would probably be overjoyed that Macau has been living up to his dictum, “To be rich is glorious.”

What made such impressive economic figures possible is gambling—or, its more polite variant, “gaming.” Casinos are what have made this special administration region a Chinese cash cow since Lisbon formally returned it to Beijing in 1999.

To be sure, Macau has other sources of income, such as some light industries that include garment and textile factories. Its history as the oldest—and last—European colony on Chinese soil has produced a culture that appeals to millions of sightseers, both Chinese and foreign. There is little doubt, however, that the bulk of 25 million tourists who went to Macau last year alone made a beeline to its casinos. And projections are tourist traffic—both from the mainland, where illegal gambling can earn an offender three years in prison, and overseas—is bound to keep growing. Of course, it has not always been that way.

The history of the gaming industry in Macau can be traced to 1962, when the Portuguese colonial authorities issued a monopoly license to the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM), headed by the legendary Stanley Ho. His classic Hotel Lisboa and its opulent extension across the street, the lotus-shaped Grand Lisboa, still dominate the skyline of Macau’s old section. However, Macau—and China as a whole—hit the jackpot when the Chinese authorities decided to give Ho some competition.

The Macau government ended the monopoly system in 2002. Six casino concessions and subconcessions were granted to STDM, Wynn Resorts, Las Vegas Sands, Galaxy Entertainment Group, the partnership of MGM Mirage and Pansy Ho Chiu-king and the partnership of Melco and PBL.

Stanley Ho’s STDM continues to operate 16 casinos, which are still considered crucial to Macau’s casino industry. In 2004, however, the opening of the Sands Macau ushered in a new, more profitable era.

At its opening the Sands Macau was hailed as the largest casino in the world, as measured by total number of table games. After the Wynn Macau threw its doors open in 2006, gambling revenue from Macau’s casinos surpassed for the first time that of the Las Vegas Strip’s $6 billion or so. Since then, Macau has become the highest-volume gambling center in the world.

Success breeds success, and keeps on doing so. In 2007 the Venetian Macau—the second-largest building in the world—opened its doors to the public, followed by MGM Grand Macau. Many other hotel casinos, including Galaxy Cotai Megaresort and Ponte 16, are similarly set to open in the very near future—going by the relentless pace of construction at Macau’s reclamation areas.

Officially, Filipinos make up 2 percent of Macau’s population. They are employed not just in the casinos, but also in hotels, restaurants, transport companies, retail outlets and wherever there is a need for amiable, hard-working and English-speaking staff. However, there are probably even more Filipinos in Macau working “informally.”

That Filipinos make up a significant portion of Macau’s casino work force—and, for that matter, in the US gaming centers of Atlantic City, Reno and Las Vegas—has its parallels in, say, our merchant marine. The Philippines deploys the largest number of seamen across the globe—mainly because it does not have a big enough maritime industry to employ them.

Some of our expatriate manpower and talent in the gaming establishments of Macau—and even Nevada and New Jersey—may finally be able to come home and still earn a decent living in the not-too-distant future.

After making investors—along with thousands of job-hungry Filipinos—wait for what must have felt like an eternity, the state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) finally gave the go-signal to four investors ready, willing and able to put up a world-class gaming center in Manila.

As this paper reported yesterday, what has been envisioned as a Las Vegas-like Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City took another step closer to reality. Japan’s Aruze Corp., Genting Berhad of Malaysia, SM Investments Corp. and Australia’s Bloombery Investments Ltd. were given the go-ahead to put up their respective multibillion-dollar projects at the 90-hectare resort complex.

Pagcor has approved the project proposals of the four groups, with total investments of about $10 billion spread over three to five years.

When fully operational—the earliest by 2010—the integrated resort facility is projected to raise the country’s gaming revenue by at least 30 percent. It is also expected to boost foreign tourist arrivals by up to three million travelers annually, and generate over 250,000 new jobs.

Pagcor aims to use the Bagong Nayong Pilipino as a catalyst to sustain the growth of the country’s tourism industry. It hopes to attract at least $4 billion in investments.

Fears that the envisioned gambling center would further erode Filipinos’ public morals seem to be unfounded. Similar—but not as grand—gaming operations have actually been operating for several years now in Ilocos Norte, Cagayan, La Union, Rizal and the old US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay. The bulk of their clientele is foreign—including spillovers from Macau.

Besides, the potential of the Manila Bay Strip for boosting tourist traffic is enormous. There are certainly more attractions for sightseers in this country than the ex-Portuguese colony’s church ruins.


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SM joins $1B casino project
April 03, 2008 11:38:00
Thomson Financial
Inquirer
http://www.inquirer.net/propertyguide/buildingblocks/view.php?db=1&article=20080403-128081

MANILA, Philippines -- SM Investments Corp., the country’s second-largest conglomerate by market value, said on Thursday it would participate in a $1-billion casino project in Manila.

SM Investments made the disclosure to the Manila stock exchange but did not give other details about its participation in the project. The company has interests in shopping mall, banking and property development businesses.

The 40-hectare Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated tourism project consists of a casino, hotels, shopping malls and other entertainment facilities.

Another local conglomerate, property and food company Alliance Global Group Inc., said in a separate statement it had bought 2.4 billion shares in a Philippine gaming company, Travellers International Hotel Group Inc., for P2.38 billion ($57.2 million). Travellers has a pending application to participate in the PAGCOR-led project.

"PAGCOR has recently confirmed that Travellers is qualified to participate in the project," Alliance Global said.

Alliance Global, which holds the business interests of local tycoon Andrew Tan, has a controlling stake in Megaworld Corp., the Philippines' second-biggest property developer by market value.

Alliance also has a substantial stake in the local franchise holder of the McDonald's food chain and owns brandy maker Emperador Distillers Inc.

On Wednesday, Malaysian cruise liner Star Cruises said it would invest $335 million in the casino project in Manila by buying a 50-percent stake in Travellers.

The deal between Star Cruises and Alliance will be conditional on the license being issued.

Star Cruises is listed in Singapore and Hong Kong. It is a unit of Malaysian gaming company Resorts World Bhd. Star Cruises has also invested in a casino and hotel project in Macau.

At 10:22 a.m. (0222 GMT), Alliance shares were up 8.8 percent at P4.35.

SM Investments rose 0.9 percent to P285.00 following a brief trading suspension ahead of its announcement regarding its participation in the casino project.

^^ alam ko sa Pasay City pa rin 'to. katabi to ng MoA e. :)

^^ Ahh OK so this is the Pagcor project this article below was talking about. Thank You Xmd! :)

Pasay earmarks P15 B for bay area dev’t
By Rhodina Villanueva
Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Pasay City government has allocated P15 billion to develop the city’s bay area and jumpstart the city’s bid to become a “prime business and tourist destination in Asia.”

“The project entails the development of existing bay areas or reclaimed shorelines. The target area will even be larger than the SM Mall of Asia complex, also located in the city’s bay area, which is nearly 1.2 square kilometers. The project, to rise just behind the mall’s premises, will cover at least five square kilometers,” Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad said.

He said the “Pasay Near-Shore Development Project” has three phases that will be undertaken under a build-operate-transfer scheme by a private firm – the West Marina Bay Development Inc. (WMBDI) – in coordination with the city government.

Trinidad and WMBDI officials recently signed a memorandum of agreement for the project, and construction will begin in six months. The scope of project includes the construction of hotels, an entertainment center with multi-level parking, and docking facilities for private yachts and cruise liners.

“We envisioned this development plan eight years ago and this project – in addition to what are already in place in the city’s Central Business District – will move Pasay closer to truly becoming the ‘prime business and tourist destination in Asia’ in the near future,” he said.

The project gained headway when Sangguniang Panlungsod Resolution 2267, sponsored by all members of the city council, was adopted and approved on Feb. 29.

The resolution authorizes the city mayor to appoint any reputable business entity as the program integrator and become the unsolicited and pioneering proponent for the development of a portion of the existing bay areas near the shorelines of the city’s central business district on a build-operate-transfer scheme, provided that the development complies with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to it.

Trinidad added that project complements his administration’s urban renewal program, a long-term plan that aims to reenergize the whole of the city, with the bay area serving as the catalyst for the city’s future projects.

No. It's different. PAGCOR's project is $15.. this project by the Pasay city government is P15.

^^ Ahh OO nga naman yung Pagcor $15B at yung isa P15B naman. Thanks for pointing that out Diz! :)


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Pagcor published a half page press release today with a picture of the complex that will have a semi submersible observation wheel. heres the same picture. look at the bottom of the observation wheel. notice how it dips into a man made lake? what did i say earlier!!!

The pagcor tower will be built by pagcor and will serve as their headquarters. The architect is local firm called JT Cruz and Partners. If they truly want to make this world class, they should hire an international firm known for making iconic landmarks and design a symbol not just for the complex but for the "new" philippines. they should learn from landmarks like the petronas twin towers (used muslim motifs, symbolic gateway to malaysia), burj dubai (billowing sail, a symbol of new dubai) or the beijing national stadium (birds nest, green olympics)

^^ :lol: These developments aren't even comparable, other than the fact that they're both bay area developments.

As far as I know, the Pagcor City is under the territories of the cities of Pasay and Paranaque, right?

So is this Pagcor Bagong Nayong Pilipino-Manila Bay Integrated City not really in Pasay but
Manila as these articles indicate? Saan ba talaga ito para hindi naman malito ang mga tao?

Sure na Pasay ito kasi ang boundery ng Manila - Pasay ay ung sa CCP complex. :)

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SEAFARING CADETS CLEAN UP PASAY COASTAL AREAS (AFP)
Seafaring cadets from seven maritime countries volunteer to clean up coastal areas in Pasay City in preparation for World Earth Day on April 22. Over 500 cadets from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, and Vietnam were training aboard the T/S Spirit Of Mol.

As far as I know, the Pagcor City is under the territories of the cities of Pasay and Paranaque, right?

Sure na Pasay ito kasi ang boundery ng Manila - Pasay ay ung sa CCP complex. :)

^^ Thanks for the confirmation guys! :)

http://www.mb.com.ph/db_images/headlines/6_earth-edt1207405513.jpg

SEAFARING CADETS CLEAN UP PASAY COASTAL AREAS (AFP)
Seafaring cadets from seven maritime countries volunteer to clean up coastal areas in Pasay City in preparation for World Earth Day on April 22. Over 500 cadets from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, and Vietnam were training aboard the T/S Spirit Of Mol.

CAN YOU BLOW UP THIS PICTURE..CANT SEE PEEWEE TRINIDAD ANYWHERE IN THIS SHOT. THANKS

any new update las pineros?:cheers:

Sorry, I can't. I found the photo at the Manilla Bulletin online news paper and there's no way to enlarge the size of the pic that MB posted.

PAGCOR: Entertainment City is all about entertainment and tourism
ABS-CBN News
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=114161


Butch Francisco, president of Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR), talked about the ambitious entertainment complex, Entertainment City, with Ricky Carandang in Mornings@ANC Friday, April 4.

Francisco said Entertainment City is not just gambling, it’s all about entertainment and tourism.

These are pretty impressive numbers. how many billion dollars are we talking about here?

Easily if investors would invest an average of $2 billion to $3 billion, and there are right now four investors assured of investing $24 billion each. So easily we can raise about $12 billion to $15 billion in investments.

These people, when you say they are putting in three to four, that's committed. They've pledged to put that in into this project?

Yes. In accordance with our terms of reference, which we published last year, the minimum participating amount for a participant in the project will be $1 billion.

Okay. So we're looking, at the very least, at $4 billion and perhaps as much $15 billion?

That's correct.

Even if you take the lower figures, that's a pretty good investment, and we're not talking about equity, right?

That's correct.

Tell me what the complex is and why it's going to need all this money.

Well, easily, when you are... We're looking at the model, which Singapore, for one has successfully started having an integrated resort. In fact, they awarded two areas in Singapore. In each resort, using that model, which requires a complex that will have an integrated facility of recreational and entertainment activities. The computation or calculation require an investment of a minimum of $1 billion.

So we're talking about entertainment gaming complex. There's gonna be hotels. Will there be…

Retail as well.

Will there be commercial, will there be residential?

That's correct. That's why it's called an integrated resort. Resort, because its a center for recreation and entertainment. Integrated because of all the units that will form part of the resort. Let me correct this, that the gaming side is, I would say, less than 5 percent of the total activities that will happen in that complex. Basically, it's still retail, dining and entertainment.

But certainly gaming is going to be a big contributor to revenues. We all know that. No matter what anyone says about it. It is a big money earner.

Yes.

How does it work? You've got five investors who you're looking at. Four, you said at least four. Is it based on a master plan, and then they'll decide which parts of it that they're gonna take on?

That's correct. In terms of reference, we offered a 40-hectare land, which is now under PAGCOR. And in this 40-hectare along Manila Bay, we asked for concepts from, to the public, companies who would like to participate in the project. Based on the terms of reference they have submitted, the concepts and of course also the investments required, they have seriously considered. We have seen the seriousness and the passing the grade of having a truly integrated resort.

The integrated resort, we have used the acronym or used the guide of the acronym P.A.I.N.T. PAINT will stand for partners, architecture, investments, novelty and tourism. And if we talk about partners, the investors should have a track record, and we would like also to see who their partners are to be able to see the seriousness of their capability. The architecture side would refer to the design of the concept and also the reputation of the designers in building such a concept. The I in that P.A.I.N.T. will be the investment. In our terms of reference, we mentioned a minimum of $1 billion. Initially in the terms of reference, we asked serious investors first to apply, pay a $50,000 application fee and submit a concept along with a $100 million commitment. Then you can you see how the seriousness of the investor.

But there is a master plan, right?

There is a master plan. But this master plan is a guide post. We still need to see how the investors will like to help us in developing the master plan. For as long as the integrated resort model is there, and of course in the P.A.I.N.T. word, there's N, novelty. The novelty of their concept, like for example, their being a world class theme park. You could talk about, Singapore bringing in Universal Studios. So, what is the investor bringing in the complex.

Yeah, tell me what's its gonna have because we know that it'll have some gaming tables. We also know that it's gonna have a theme park. Star Cruise is here so I presume there's gonna be a cruise element.

And it's the first time they'll be visiting, as often as they can. There're luxury ships.

And this are bringing in tourist from where?

From all over the region. Star Cruise is the third largest cruise liner in the world.

This is big! I mean this is a very ambitious plan, isn't it?

It's a good model, which our country will be happy about because of the attractiveness that it can generate in promoting tourism.

That's right, investments and jobs. I was reading in the introduction you we're expecting to create about 200 jobs?

Yes initially, because of the construction. Easily one complex will employ over 20,000 employees. In The Venetian in Macao has employed over 15,000 employees.

A lot of them Filipino if I'm not mistaken…

I would say so, about one-third. With this complex, I won't be surprised that many of these Filipinos will perhaps be coming back. In the terms of reference, we are asking the investors that once they operate the salaries should be competitive, within the region.

That actually has some potential of bringing back people who have left the country?

Correct.

So, there's certainly economic benefits. I can also see, you know, the investment and all that. You haven't gotten a lot of opposition to this?

Well this has been in the drawing board since 2001.

So it's not a surprise?

Yeah. It's not a surprise. We went into the process of discussing this with different groups. We explained to them that because PAGCOR will always be related to gambling. We explained ourselves that PAGCOR has shifted from gambling to dining and entertainment. I'm very happy that society, as a whole, is understanding this model that we are trying to set up.

How long will it take before we actually see these things up and running?

Immediately, we can see it in the next few months. We will start the development of the site. We can have the initial phase, the first facility will open sometime in 2010. Two years from now.

2010 and then beyond?

Beyond that. It's a five, seven year project.

In the south you have Singapore proceeding. I think they are a little bit ahead of us as far as construction and planning are concerned.

Yes, but we might just be able to ah.. Just about the same time to open. The first facility to open will open in the late 2009, and we expect the first facility in Nayong Pilipino in the first quarter of 2010. Just slightly behind.

In the north you've got Macau, it's already there. I know that it's not exactly the same, but it's along the same broad strokes. What do you think is going to be the draw for us? Macau and Singapore trying to compete from roughly the same market. What's the unique selling point for this project here in the Philippines?

Number one, it's the people, the hospitality. I've seen how they operate in Macau, the same in Singapore. Generally, I've spoken to a lot of people, and because of our hospitality and our language, it's universal, being able to speak English.

The Singaporeans can do that...

The Singaporeans can do it, but how many can they employ from their own side. They have to employ Filipinos as well.

So we have scale that would set us apart from Singapore?

Scale. People.

And english will set us apart from Macau?

Yes. That's right.

So, there's no more hitches. This is all systems go?

All systems go. Also another thing is the structure that we have, the legal framework that we have in conducting business in the Philippines, they're happy. All the laws are in place for such a complex that we will put up. We have the laws on gambling in place. We have laws in doing business in place. In Macau, people say that many things had to be done. Singapore is the most transparent.

may signs and flags na sa Macapagal boulevard! tuloy na nga 'to! :)

nababaliw na ba si trinidad......the man is an old fool....the likes of mayor lim....mga napaglipasan na ng panahon.....trying to regain whatever it is to be regained.....nagkukumahog na magiwan ng legacy...too late...too late....pasay...gateway to the philippines....ayaw ko na maging pinoy..sa bulok ng pasay na yan...gateway to the philippines...har har har...whatever developments there is in pasay halos walang kinalaman don si trinidad... private sector endeavor yon...o di kaya national government....kagaya ng ccp, picc, folk arts, coco palace...etc.....sa private naman...ang moa....at sa pagcor naman ang e-city....nakikinabang lang ang pasay sa mga projects na ito.....kakahiyang mapangalanan na pasay ang mga projects na ito...kaya manila ang naisusulat....bulok at pangit ang pasay.....sa tagal na palpak ang liderato dyan sa lugar na yan.....pangit...mabaho...masikip...eewwww....amazing pasay....baka amoying pasay.....

pasay will always be known as a honky tonk town, full of shanties, no real development and oh yeah a place to see torohan.

The way Pasay developed is due to several administrations, not necessarily of the present administration only.

Mayor Cuneta, Mayor Claudio, Mayor Panaligan and Mayor Peewee all had a hand in shaping Pasay.

And do we like what we see? :ohno:

Yung Holiday Plaza in Libertad , Pasay ..is it still in operation ? Malaki din kahit paano yun . If ever na idedemolish yun , okay sana na gawing brand new stylish multi-level mall with plush residential towers on top of it .

Originally Posted by Sinjin P.
As far as I know, the Pagcor City is under the territories of the cities of Pasay and Paranaque, right?

Quote:
Originally Posted by nayki
Sure na Pasay ito kasi ang boundery ng Manila - Pasay ay ung sa CCP complex.


^^ Thanks for the confirmation guys! :)

uhmm... CCP is within Manila's boundary... PICC is in Pasay.. MoA is in Pasay.. while the Pagcor City land is Paranaque... refer to the map...

green is Manila.. it has that thin strip of reclaimed land which is CCP, then the brown land across Pasay (pink), and at the left bottom corner is Paranaque (brown) which is takes the PAGCOR land... the Pasay and Paranaque side of the reclaimed land is divided by a creek...

http://www.lrta.gov.ph/images/srts%20map.jpg

yup the e-city is in paranaque try visiting www.pagcor.ph
nakikiamot lang ang pasay.....paranaque is better than pasay cleaner and more progressive.....we all agree na basura ang pasay....kakahiya kung sino man ang mga mayor diyan......well the pasayans....deserve the leader they elected.....3/4ths ata ng pasay ay puro squatters.....ganon ka incompetent ang mga naging mayor dyan....

^^ Ahh OK so hindi pala dito sa Pasay thread dapat i-post ang mga Pagcor/Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City project news kung ganoon. Sa Paranaque pala! That was the reason why I was asking. Thanks Pau / Kalbongdad! :)

yup wrong place nga po.. ;)

(UPDATE) Firefighters control Pasay blaze


Firemen now have control of the blaze at a toy factory and warehouse in Pasay City, radio dzMM reported.


An initial report said that the blaze started around after 6 p.m. and was raised to the 3rd alarm shortly after that.

Firefighters had a hard time dousing the flames because of the narrow alleys leading to the burning factory.

This is almost a weekly event.

As I wrote before, Pasay wants to be a player but has not even started with the basics. Fix EDSA between Makati and Roxas Boulevard so that travel time from makati and areas north of Makati to the future Pagcor area and Mall of Asia is efficient and money will pour in to develop this shanty town.

any new update las pineros?:cheers:


Malapit na yatang matapos yung mystery building near Ever.. hehehe

^^ named na ba?

Unfortunately hindi pa... baka may pa-contest pa! hahaha!

Name the mystery building!

I do hope they do something about the traffic in Zapote-Alabang Rd. No offence to the current LGU,but it's just terrible specially on rush hours.I pity the traffic aides who try their best to fix this problem but I think unless a radical approach is done,Las Pinas traffic will just worsen.Monorail/Skyrail anyone?:)

It will be very expensive if Las Piñas decides to imporve the trafficv situation.. massive road works.. traffic ediscipline eudcation for jeepneys.. etc..

Very expensive. Unless they limit the number of public transportation, and employ a new and strict coding scheme for private vehicles.

May ginagawa sila sa may Casimiro part.. may road widening project.. unti unti din..

well sana nga. kaya bang additional lane? pero mahirap talagang ma-solve ang traffic problem e. kasi one major thoroughfare lang. Dapat kasi if possible, all private vehicles use the Friendship Route instead.

Actually pwede naman eh..

May ginagawa sila sa may Casimiro part.. may road widening project.. unti unti din..

ang widening ba... road going to evacom? may lote kasi ako sa LPRoyaleEstate hindi ko na na visit since 2004 pa wala akong idea kong anong development na diyan:cheers:

Well yung part sa May LP Royal Estate okay naman ang daan.. the road leading to the road where the LP Royal Estate is being widened.. Madami ng developments..

Yung Southville IS halos yung buong kalupaan sa tabi niya nabili na niya..

Well yung part sa May LP Royal Estate okay naman ang daan.. the road leading to the road where the LP Royal Estate is being widened.. Madami ng developments..

Yung Southville IS halos yung buong kalupaan sa tabi niya nabili na niya..

^^Thanks for the info:cheers:

No Problem! Yung tapat ng Southville and parts of the BF Luxembourg gate is always flooded kapag umuulan.. hay drainage should be improved there..

Any details about this project?
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Ayan yung mysteriopus building malapit sa City Hall...

Oo nga. But it is a project anyway, so I'm excited. When will Las Pinas get its very first high rise?

This is not LP's first high rise ..there a mini-cluster of buildings near SM Southmall.

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Pasay earmarks P15 B for bay area dev’t
By Rhodina Villanueva
Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Pasay City government has allocated P15 billion to develop the city’s bay area and jumpstart the city’s bid to become a “prime business and tourist destination in Asia.”

well....what is so important about pasay.....hmmmm let me think....NONE....pangit ng city na ito...basura....basura at basura pa....walang sariling development ang maipapakita ang pasay....moa is a national government initiative......yung reclamation area from ccp to moa....walang kinalaman ang pasay don....naaangihan lang sila ng taxes....pero sa development......eeeehhhhh... pangit pa rin ang pasay....helllloooo sino ba ang mayor dyan....buti pa si bayani fernando magpatakbo ng pasay baka sakaling may mabuting mangyari sa lugar na yan....

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This is one of the worst places in the Metro. 'nuff said.

Additional:

Home of butiking pasay.

ugh, and I thought it was just my aunts who were teasing my faternal grandmother of being "butiking pasay" for being too skinny and was born in pasay... it's actually a myth and has a story connected to it? Wow!!!

Aside from Manila, the original cities of the metro were: Pasay, Caloocan and QC. The rest were just municipalities until the mid-90's.

Aside from Manila, the original cities of the metro were: Pasay, Caloocan and QC. The rest were just municipalities until the mid-90's.

Yeah, I still remember a high school homework about the towns that comprise the Metro. There were only four cities back then.

Oo nga. The stinger of NU 107 went this way: "Serving four cities, 13 municipalities, one nation's capital, the universe and beyond!"

dalawang daan na nakadaan dapat me improvement na yang city nila. kahit man lang kumente ang mga shanti towns.

Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1


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Photo by: Stormcrypt (http://flickr.com/photos/storm-crypt/2328559357/sizes/o/)

That terminal is not in Pasay, it's in Parañaque. T2 and T3 is in Pasay.

anyone has pics of IHMC Paranaque near sucat? gawd i miss that school. :)

i used to live in Camella Homes near Annex 41 and Ina Homes. :D

my goodness! nabuhay ang parañaque thread! :lol:

May sunog sa Pasay ngayon..

May sunog sa Pasay ngayon..
yup..lots of smoke...and i bet the news reporting will go this way:

fire chief nasunog said that they were unable to get to the fire due to blocked and narrow streets.
meanwhile mayor trinidad (who still cannot see the connection between narrow streets and access for emergency vehicles) said pagaralan natin ito
arson investigators attribute the fire to a candle or pirated wires from the meralco post.
mayor trinidad was reportedly still asleep dreaming about his $15billion premiere pasay project which aims to move the CBD from makati/bgc to pasay.

That terminal is not in Pasay, it's in Parañaque. T2 and T3 is in Pasay.

Hahaha... Thanks Ekspi. Stormcrypt doesn't know that too because he put Parañaque as the site of his shot. I still remember the squabble between the Pasay and Parañaque city governments regarding the collection of taxes from NAIA not so long time ago wherein both threatened to close to airport if the dues weren't paid. I even remember either the Parañaque or Pasay government asking for a piece of the NAIA land as payment instead. Then the national government countered by saying it is not possible for it to have debts to the LGUs. :lol:

Hahaha... Thanks Ekspi. Stormcrypt doesn't know that too because he put Parañaque as the site of his shot. I still remember the squabble between the Pasay and Parañaque city governments regarding the collection of taxes from NAIA not so long time ago wherein both threatened to close to airport if the dues weren't paid. I even remember either the Parañaque or Pasay government asking for a piece of the NAIA land as payment instead. Then the national government countered by saying it is not possible for it to have debts to the LGUs. :lol:

Both Pasay and Paranaque lost the cases. Their claim was just plain stupidity. :)

good one peeeweee..thanks to the inadequate firefighting equipment, 10 hours later YOUR fire is still blazing and the whole of makati is smoked out..in addition to the already elevated daily pollution in makati..have you woken up yet from your $15billion dream?

Hahaha... Thanks Ekspi. Stormcrypt doesn't know that too because he put Parañaque as the site of his shot. I still remember the squabble between the Pasay and Parañaque city governments regarding the collection of taxes from NAIA not so long time ago wherein both threatened to close to airport if the dues weren't paid. I even remember either the Parañaque or Pasay government asking for a piece of the NAIA land as payment instead. Then the national government countered by saying it is not possible for it to have debts to the LGUs. :lol:
Both Pasay and Paranaque lost the cases. Their claim was just plain stupidity. :)Yeah, that is plain stupidity. I remember those cases. From our side, Joey Marquez sued the national government for "failure" to pay local taxes. Goodness, as if they really have to collect taxes from the national airport! :gaah:

good one peeeweee..thanks to the inadequate firefighting equipment, 10 hours later YOUR fire is still blazing and the whole of makati is smoked out..in addition to the already elevated daily pollution in makati..have you woken up yet from your $15billion dream?10 hours??? My goodness, that is a very long fire.

I was about to go home from school and I still saw a couple of firetrucks going in the direction of Pasay. It was around 6pm already.

Instead of undoing previous sins and taking advantage of the fire to finally prepare this place for proper urban living, this area will be re-populated in 2 months time and history repeats



Pasay mall fire rekindled, spreads to neighbors


The fire that gutted a mall in Libertad, Pasay City Thursday continued its onslaught before dawn Friday, burning down 30 shanties nearby. At least 70 people lost their homes.

The fire that was rekindled at 3:45 a.m. Friday came following the 18-hour blaze that gutted the WellCom Plaza building Thursday morning. The building also houses a Puregold supermarket.

It burned down 30 houses made of light materials at the back of the building. The blaze was pacified at 5:40 a.m. Occupants of the gutted homes have been evacuated to an elementary school.

Firefighters said the blaze was rekindled after the heat from the gutted mall was swept toward the shanties.

The mall fire started early Thursday and was declared out past 7 p.m. Fire volunteers who tried to breach the smoke-filled mall collapsed due to suffocation.

Fire investigators have yet to determine the cause of the mall fire.

the anti family planning and population control people should be the ones giving those people new homes and land to live on.

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Shot yesterday from Kingswood Makati



Pasay mall fire rekindled, spreads to neighbors


The fire that gutted a mall in Libertad, Pasay City Thursday continued its onslaught before dawn Friday, burning down 30 shanties nearby. At least 70 people lost their homes.

The fire that was rekindled at 3:45 a.m. Friday came following the 18-hour blaze that gutted the WellCom Plaza building Thursday morning. The building also houses a Puregold supermarket.

It burned down 30 houses made of light materials at the back of the building. The blaze was pacified at 5:40 a.m. Occupants of the gutted homes have been evacuated to an elementary school.

Firefighters said the blaze was rekindled after the heat from the gutted mall was swept toward the shanties.

The mall fire started early Thursday and was declared out past 7 p.m. Fire volunteers who tried to breach the smoke-filled mall collapsed due to suffocation.

Fire investigators have yet to determine the cause of the mall fire.

Roxas Blvd., Parañaque City

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Hindi pa rin alam kung ano ang project near city hall

LhexiMont: oh so those are considered highrises already? we got a unit there.

EDSA Extension
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May it be rush hour or no rush hour, its the same situation.

Sa Las Piñas High rise na yun :)

Roxas Blvd., Parañaque City

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i really hate this place... a little:lol:
the moa view and the sunset are fantastic but paranaque needs alot improvement.
not just colorful lampost but clearing the sidewalk.there are times na parang tiangge ang sidewalk dito

and also paranaque river is shocking!

pasay mayor looks like peewee in the chichiria LOL
... i know,i know...

hello, as if pasig river was not that shocking? and perhaps you haven't seen the whole of parañaque

i really hate this place... a little:lol:
the moa view and the sunset are fantastic but paranaque needs alot improvement.
not just colorful lampost but clearing the sidewalk.there are times na parang tiangge ang sidewalk dito
I took this photo because i saw a lot of improvements in the Baclaran area though not clearly shown in the pics.

Fire victims complain of Pasay City government’s neglect

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Thirty families living in an evacuation center in Pasay City after a fire razed their homes on July 17th, complained that the local government has failed to provide them with financial aid and medicine.

The victims have been staying inside the center for almost two weeks now, after a blaze gutted WellCom Plaza in Libertad, Pasay City. The fire burned down 30 nearby shanties.

At least 70 people lost their homes. Occupants of the gutted homes have been evacuated to an elementary school.

Pasay City Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad ordered the demolition of the gutted building because it poses a threat to residents living at the back portion of the Wellcom Plaza. This was after firefighters noticed cracks on the walls of the building.

The evacuees criticized the slow demolition of the mall, which also delays their return to their burnt homes.

They said that if the government allowed them to go back to the site, they would be able to put up their own shanties.


The families also said that they need financial assistance from the local government so they can construct shanties on the site.


“The first reason is that the walls of the WellCom may crumple down anytime. We cannot let the victims go home without ensuring their safety. We should first ask the advice of the Bureau of Fire Protection and the city engineer. The establishment should be torn down first before the families could move back,” said Bayona.

Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1


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T1's design/shape from above is beautiful. It looks like a bird/eagle with wings spread.

is that how big Terminal 1 already looks when it opened in the 80s, or may extension nang ginawa dyan?

Is it a Locsin or a Luz design? the airport I mean.. Sana kung ma-maintain lang ng maayos ang loob okay ang design ng Airport natin.. parang Jakarta airport.. luma pero para kang nasa resort!

hello, as if pasig river was not that shocking? and perhaps you haven't seen the whole of parañaque

nki2ta nyo ba yung bridge na kahoy ung sa ilalim ng tulay.mlapit sa naia
floating house with a long wooden bridge. haba nung tulay oa.
sobrang nta2wa lng ako don.:lol:

btw saan b ang center ng paranaque?
i always pass through sm sucat ung may ktabing carinderia infront of vira mall
ung maraming sinage na "pride in paranaque" tpos yung "evac com"
and bf homes na may kawayan designed green painted na center island.:)

nki2ta nyo ba yung bridge na kahoy ung sa ilalim ng tulay.mlapit sa naia
floating house with a long wooden bridge. haba nung tulay oa.
sobrang nta2wa lng ako don.:lol:

btw saan b ang center ng paranaque?
i always pass through sm sucat ung may ktabing carinderia infront of vira mall
ung maraming sinage na "pride in paranaque" tpos yung "evac com"
and bf homes na may kawayan designed green painted na center island.:)What do you mean center? If you're talking about the political center, then it is located in the city hall. There's no business center but the largest commercial concentration or "commercial belt" would be on the northeastern part starting from Baclaran to SM Sucat (passing through DR A Santos Ave) until it reaches SLEX Sucat Interchange. The latest news from the mayor's office says that the central business district would be developed on the reclaimed area of Manila Bay. The rest of Parañaque are gated communities like BF Homes, Better Living, Sun Valley, Moonwalk, etc; MId-rise condos like the one's in Sucat and Moonwalk; and of course, squatters.

What do you mean center? If you're talking about the political center, then it is located in the city hall. There's no business center but the largest commercial concentration or "commercial belt" would be on the northeastern part starting from Baclaran to SM Sucat (passing through DR A Santos Ave) until it reaches SLEX Sucat Interchange. The latest news from the mayor's office says that the central business district would be developed on the reclaimed area of Manila Bay. The rest of Parañaque are gated communities like BF Homes, Better Living, Sun Valley, Moonwalk, etc; MId-rise condos like the one's in Sucat and Moonwalk; and of course, squatters.

from baclaran to sm sucat to slex that's my route.

hello, as if pasig river was not that shocking? and perhaps you haven't seen the whole of parañaque

yun n nga ang paranaque.ive seen whole thing.
it must be alot easier for for pque to develop the fact theyre near manila and the airport.

yun n nga ang paranaque.ive seen whole thing. it must be alot easier for for pque to develop the fact theyre near manila and the airport.it's difficult because the homeowners are powerful. The law prohibits the local government to build commercial centers without completing certain requirements like wide roads, ROW, approval of the residents, etc. Parañaque is already saturated by subdivisions. Google earth it and you'll notice that 3/4 of the city is residential.

Baclaran fire disrupts LRT1 operations

The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) on Monday cancelled train operations at the LRT-1 Baclaran station after fire hit a shopping center near the station.

LRTA management said there will be no disruption of operations of trains from Monumento station to EDSA station and back.

Firefighters said they have yet to put out the fire that hit the Mega-Plex building Sunday night. Pasay Fire chief Federico Maslang said the blaze started at the building’s ground floor where textile materials were reportedly kept.

Authorities have barred stall owners from entering the burning building.

The fire took place nearly a month after a blaze hit the Wellcom Plaza beside the LRT Libertad Station.

Last week, a predawn fire gutted the Good Earth Plaza building in Santa Cruz, forcing the LRTA to shut down operations in its Carriedo station.

^^ Ano ba yan!! Looks like its a trend nowadays to burn shopping centers along LRT1?

Pasay was once named as Rizal City right? back in the 1940-50's right? Great dishonor to the national hero IMHO

T1's design/shape from above is beautiful. It looks like a bird/eagle with wings spread.

It looks like a scorpion to me.

OT but I remember reading an astrology book saying that the constellation of Scorpio is both a scorpion and a phoenix. :cheers:

(UPDATE) Baclaran mall fire reaches 20th hour


The fire at a mall in Baclaran in Pasay City has reached the 20th hour as of posting time as officials raised the Task Force Foxtrot alarm, a step away from alerting all fire engines in Metro Manila to come to the rescue.

At the same time, the Light Rail Transit Authority on Monday canceled train operations at the LRT-1 Baclaran station after fire hit the Mega-Plex building Sunday night. The mall is near the LRT station.

Firefighters said they have yet to put out the fire that hit the Mega-Plex building. Pasay fire marshal Federico Maslang said the blaze started at the building’s ground floor where textile materials were reportedly kept.

Authorities have barred stall owners from entering the burning building.

The fire took place following last month's blaze at the Wellcom Plaza beside the LRT Libertad Station, also in Pasay.

Last week, a predawn fire gutted the Good Earth Plaza building in Sta. Cruz, Manila, forcing the LRTA to shut down operations in its Carriedo station. With a report from radio dzMM