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Originally Posted by Subedei

Does the new city hall have ample parking areas/spaces?....

it doesn't have but there are plans to purchase the lots surrounding it. Since it is around the historic Plaza Libertad, sadly some colonial buildings might be affected with it .

The Development Bank of the Philippines has offered to finance the purchase of a lot adjacent to the new Iloilo city hall in front of Plaza Libertad to be used for parking purposes.

Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said DBP officials have met with him to submit the bank’s offer of P35-million loan facility for the purchase of some 3,000-square meter lot owned by British firm Kerr and Co., at seven percent interest rate per annum.

The British firm has since abandoned the property and offered to sell to the city government at P11,000 per square meter.

Mabilog said the City Council has already approved his request for a new design of the city hall project, particularly the third floor earlier earmarked as parking space for city government vehicles.

He said the third floor will be used for offices of the city and reserved as office space of new city officials should the city be redistricted into two congressional districts.

Mabilog said he wants an open space beside the new city hall that doubles as a parking space for city government vehicles and those of visitors.

Last month, the mayor said the city may have a new city hall early next year if work on the seven-storey government structure will proceed as scheduled.

Contractor F.F. Cruz & Co. Inc. has reported then that the construction is “ahead of schedule.”

“If things go as planned and there are no hitches, we can have the new city hall by February 2011,” Mabilog said earlier.