MANILA | Manila Financial Center [gov|mix]

[johnmizer]

kahit manalo siya, wala pa rin. e dagdag niyo na lang sa 500 stories ni lim like white sand beach, etc. haha

[xxxriainxxx]

Originally Posted by Tokyo/Manila

63-story tower?????? lol nabawasan na ng floors baka mamaya 5 floors na lang

Hanggang bangketa na lang yan.

[leofriends]

LOL, lahat ng project ng Gobyerno, walang natutuloy.. Matik na yan, kaya nga dapat pag government related di na dapat pinaguusapan..

[InfinitiFX45]

With the coming election this year, I hope this upcoming project and all this brouhaha will come into a fruition... and most of all the "Kontrabidas" will cease and desist !!!

[doctor joe]

promising....

completion nito ay sa pagkatapos ng mayoral term ng anak niya

[MisterDragon]

Hindi na ito possible. Ayaw ng South Harbor, gusto nila gawing Oil depot ito.

[kenshiro10]

The crown jewel of his projects is a financial center at the decaying Port Area, behind the DPWH building. A Korean consortium, which has built entire cities in other countries, plans to construct office buildings, hotels, condominiums and shopping centers in the area now occupied by warehouses. At an earlier forum, Lim had shown pictures of how the Port Area would look like once the project is finished, a minicity of tall gleaming buildings. He said the Koreans will erect there the tallest building in the Philippines, and one of the tallest in Asia.

Besides being the city’s financial center, the project will also attract tourists who will be brought in by cruise ships that will dock at South Harbor. He said there are plans to shift cargo loading/unloading from South Harbor to the Port of Batangas, not only to decongest the Port Area but also to rid Manila’s streets of the giant container van trucks clogging narrow city streets. With cargo ships shifted to Batangas, South Harbor will be left to passenger ships.

(I have seen one such redevelopment of a port area in Sydney, Australia. The area, now called The Rocks, has five-star hotels and shopping/entertainment centers. It is now a top tourist attraction.)

When finished, Manila’s financial center will need 150,000 workers—managers and employees, tourism people, maintenance workers, service providers, etc. While under construction, the center will need construction workers, architects and engineers, thus creating jobs for Metro Manila’s unemployed. Lim added that the investors will bring in the billions of dollars needed for the project, not borrow them from local banks.

He said the investors will turn everything—buildings and all—to the Philippine government after 50 years. During that time, they would be paying lease to the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), the owner of the land.

He said he has shown the plans to President Aquino who liked it and endorsed it to the executive secretary. If it is that good, what’s holding it up? Answer: the PPA, which is hemming and hawing on the project for unknown reasons.

[le Reine]

Isa lang masasabi ko, if that project is real, it would not be dependent on who would be Manila's mayor. Whoever wins the election would still be approached by those Koreans esp if they see that there's profitability of building such grand plan.

It annoys me every time Lim would present this project as if it is his own. I bet he doesn't even have a contribution on it.

[luis4083]

568 Collins St.


Mukhang naunahan na tayo ng Melbourne sa ganitong Building

[skyscraper2012]

magkaiba po

[tita01]

i-locked na po na'tin talo si Mayor Lim


ouch .....

home of 101 storey building

[MisterDragon]

Kindly Locked.