Clark and Subic Infrastructure and Urban Planning

[ryanr]

Post anything Clark and Subic related. Would should see these two investment hubs becoming something big in the future. They will most likely propel the Philippine economy in the next decade.

Clark Ecozone employment to reach 76,000 in five years

By Ding Cervantes
The Philippine Star 05/04/2004


CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The Clark Development Corp. (CDC) has announced that employment is expected to soar to about 76,000 at the Clark special economic zone in the next five years after it signed new business agreements with 32 more firms.

"Clark now hosts about 413 business enterprises whose investments total about P77.75 billion in the next five years," the CDC said yesterday. The old and new firms are expected to open more jobs and boost employment here from about 27,000 to 76,000 in the next five years.

The employment figure is much more than the 24,000 Filipinos employed by the US military base here in 1991.

Of the 32 new investments , CDC public relations department chief Sonny Lopez particularly cited the takeover of the mothballed Tru North Gold and Country Club by the US firm BAC Nevada, which will develop a world-class golf course, housing, leisure parks, convention centers, and a world-class resort.

The CDC also signed recently an agreement with the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) to promote industrial peace and "to elevate the standard of employment inside the Clark special economic zone."

CDC president and chief executive officer Emmanuel Angeles said that the CDC and NCMB will also "provide immediate conciliation services to facilitate the amicable settlement of labor disputes" and "undertake training and orientation activities for employers and workers on voluntary modes of labor dispute prevention and settlement while the labor body will also provide assistance in terms of trainings, seminar modules and designs, resource persons and other technical support."

"These measures," Angeles said, "will promote industrial peace at Clark and thereby attract more investors."

[SunKing]

RP’s first eco facility opens in Subic

THE GOVERNMENT’S information campaign on environmental preservation has just received a boost after the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) opened the country’s first ever eco-tourism visitor orientation facility.

A joint undertaking by the state-owned firm with the NGOs (non-government organizations) for Integrated Protected Areas, Inc. (NIPAS), the Presidential Commission on the Central Luzon Growth Corridor (PCCLGC) explained that the facility “will serve as a catalyst in providing information and lectures to visitors on how to preserve environmental resources.”

With the facility also called the NIPA Ecoworkshop, the commission added that it shall also be a venue where local residents of Zambales, and eventually of Central Luzon, will be introduced to new livelihood projects that are environmentally sound and friendly.

According to the PCCLGC, the Ecoworkshop “is strategically situated near the roosting place of fruit bats, the famous Apaliin Trail and the Tiboa mangrove” in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ).

The area is actually at the former administration building of the US Naval Magazine inside the ecozone, which is now also a training center “for protected area management and bio-diversity conservation.”

Quoting SBMA chair, Felicito Payumo, the PCCLGC said that “the new facility will support them in the campaign to showcase Subic as a place where industry, ecology and tourism can harmoniously mix.”

[ryanr]

Does anybody have any Clark and Subic pictures? I have Clark pictures, but they are old and bad quality.

[SunKing]

Bigger aircrafts [sic] can now land in Clark

WIDE-bodied aircrafts [sic] can now be accommodated at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) following the completion of the rehabilitation and strengthening of its seven-hectare apron and taxiway.

According to the Presidential Commission for the Central Luzon Growth Corridor (PCCLGC), large aircrafts such as the MD 11 and Boeing 747 can now land at the DMIA as a result of the P215.7-million improvements at its aviation complex.

An MD-11 is a Boeing 777 wide-bodied aircraft which has a longer non-stop flying range of 10 to 11 hours. (Huh, the MD-11 is a what now? )

Quoting Clark Development Corp. (CDC) president, Emmanuel Angeles, the commission added that the airport can now also accommodate 10 aircrafts [sic] “at any given time.”

The state-owned CDC awarded the construction project to the RD Policarpio Construction Company, Inc., which the PCCLGC described as “one of the local constructors in Pampanga that has maintained its integrity in the field of engineering here and abroad.”

With 90-tonner, wide-bodied commercial and cargo aircrafts now being able to land at the DMIA, the special Malacañang agency overseeing Central Luzon’s investment and economic activities said that initially benefiting from the newly-completed project is the United Parcel Service (UPS), the world’s largest package delivery firm which now also operates inside the ecozone.

Further quoting Angeles, the PCCLGC said that the UPS can now “bring in more cargo flights with heavier payload at the DMIA.”

The UPS Intra-Asia Hub in the Clark ecozone mounts 16 flights every night. The commission said that this is expected to increase soon.

It was in September last year when a 250-ton UPS Boeing jet, loaded with some 80 tons of cargo, made a historic landing at the DMIA from the United States.

The CDC is pushing to transform the former US military airport into the country’s “future premier gateway.”
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Did the runway fall into disrepair? After Pinautbo blew its top the Americans cleaned it and CRK was already being used as a diversion airport from MNL?. C-5 Galaxies were able to land there and those are larger than the 747!

[SunKing]

Let me start off with this one, taken 23 February 2004:


Some 2000 aerials (Mike Ward's):

[renell]

man, a lot of space for an int'l airport. but isn't the PAF HQed there?

[SunKing]

I think the HQ of the PAF is in Villamor AB (MNL), but they have an "Air Force City" in Clark. I don't think military aircraft are stationed in CRK.

[amras]

wow! it's very big... just imagine if the place is developed! anyway, does the airport already serve passenger planes?

[renell]

Originally Posted by SunKing

I think the HQ of the PAF is in Villamor AB (MNL), but they have an "Air Force City" in Clark. I don't think military aircraft are stationed in CRK.

you could be right. but i do think some PAF planes are based in Clark. im just not sure if the planes based fly...

[SunKing]

Guiao wants Clark Field
as new sports mecca
Posted: 0:38 AM (Manila Time) | Feb. 04, 2004
Inquirer News Service

NOT even the failed bid to bring the 23rd Southeast Asian Games to the heart of Pampanga has dampened Red Bull coach Yeng Guiao's vision to turn the province into the country's next sports mecca.

Guiao on Tuesday reiterated a much-ignored but highly appropriate call for the construction of a modern sports facility inside the vast Clark Field in Angeles City.


It may be a daunting task, especially on the financial side, but it can be done, according to Guiao, a Pampanga provincial board member.

"You should have vision and determination to put it to reality," said Guiao in Tuesday's PSA Forum at the Manila Pavilion.

Lack of time and resources to build a sports complex in the former US air force base doomed Pampanga's bid to become the main hub of next year's edition of the SEA Games to be held in the country for the third time.

Instead, Manila will again be the site of most of the action, with satellite venues in nearby areas, including Pampanga, hosting some events.

But Guiao is looking beyond the SEAG.

"The construction is not only meant for the SEA Games, but for the country to really have a modern sports facility. Are we going to always rely on the old Rizal Memorial?

"With a modern facility, we can afford to host other sports events. We can even host the Asian Games, why not? That's why I think this is the right time to seriously consider the idea," added the son of the late Pampanga governor Bren Guiao in the forum sponsored by Agfa Colors and Red Bull.

Guiao bared that Manny Angeles, Clark Development Corp. president, has already offered about 100 hectares inside Clark as possible site for the sports complex.

Funding is the only major concern said Guiao, adding some three billion pesos may be needed.

"In this aspect, you just have to be more creative. You have to convince investors and the government itself. It all depends on the arrangement, how much one party will have to spend, how much one gets, among others," said the former Philippine Basketball League commissioner.

For next year's SEA Games, Guiao said Clark and Subic, a former US naval base in Zambales, are ideal sites for events like archery, cycling, billiards, table tennis, boxing and marathon.

[mhe-ann]

I really like Subic, people are well-disciplined and the place is so clean. They have GPS (Global Positioning System), local version of Rescue911, etc. Only, their malls closed early.

[ryanr]

Subic people should set an example to other pinoys, especially those living in MM.

Awesome pics, Sunking! First time i've seen good quality aerials of DMIA. Its so big! There is so much room for a big international airport. I kinda wish the parallel runways were on the sides though, with the terminal in the middle like Changi. DMIA's runways are right next to each other. Oh well, at least it has parallel runways...


Asiana Airlines (Korean) flies to DMIA, btw...

[Jerico_08]

I really wish that we can have a new stadia....just like Athens and Beijing. For me it's either Clark or Subic ang pinaka- appropriate site of a new sports complex...lots of spaces and a very organized community.

[ryanr]

I agree. Clark should have a world-class sports complex, featuring a stadium, swimming complex, tennis courts, etc. But i dont think it should be in the magnitude of Olympic preparations like Athens and Beijing. They should just build a good sports complex for future sporting events like SEA games, Asian Games and maybe the Olympics in the future.

[mhe-ann]

nice idea.

[Francis20]

Subic-clark Tarlac Expressway Project

After having completed the task of converting military baselands into productive industrial, commercial, residential and tourism sites, BCDA is now setting its sight on regional development. The Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway project paves the way for BCDA’s venture into full-blown development.

This US$374.78 million or Php 18.74 billion road network aims to provide a direct link among industrial, economic and tourism zones in the Central Luzon region, specifically Clark Special Economic Zone, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Luisita Industrial Park in Tarlac and the Bataan Technology Park. The idea is to create a whole new growth center that will provide Philippine industry with a venue for trade. The 94.5 kilometer, 4-lane Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway will serve as the backbone of this new economic growth corridor.

[ryanr]

Great, especially for boosting trade and investment between the two cities.

So has this started? It was delayed for a while, so has it started right now?

[renell]

Originally Posted by GreyX

I agree. Clark should have a world-class sports complex, featuring a stadium, swimming complex, tennis courts, etc. But i dont think it should be in the magnitude of Olympic preparations like Athens and Beijing. They should just build a good sports complex for future sporting events like SEA games, Asian Games and maybe the Olympics in the future.

it'd be nice to have all those things. however to build one you need the demand, not the want only.

when you say Clark you mean Angeles right?

[absent-minded]

@GreyX - the SCTEX hasn't begun construction yet cause the gov't is still negotiating with the winning contractor for a lower price. they bid P11B but the gov't wants it down to P9B or P10B, I think... cause they'd only have P7B left for phase II (Clark-Tarlac) if it was priced like that....

[Skyblade]

Good news to here for Clark and Subic!

And there are not PAF aircraft permanently stationed in Clark.