Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Infrastructure and Urban Planning Thread

[FrancisXavier]

yeah..also the reason why akiba is trying to overrate it...

[bariQ]

lols!

[boju]

Originally Posted by bloodyred

Well, no pain no gain. We have to give up something to gain something. Pero sana nga matugunan ng city government ang temporary operation diversion ng terminal. Of course we wouldnt want to have horrendous traffic in that area. Public safety and passenger comfortability dapat ang main agenda. My gosh may ulterior motive ba? Im a user of that terminal eh hehe

You're right @bloodyred!

[akiba]

CDO's REALITY BITES!!!
1. The Gateway and Portal Entry of Northern Mindanao and Whole Mindanao.
2. The 4th placer local annual income in 2006 all over the highly-urbanized Philippine cities.
3. The Largest Current Receiver of Infrastructural Projects in Mindanao.
4. The Melting Pot of Mindanao.
5. The Regional Shopping Center, Regional Medical Center, Regional Educational Center, and Regional Factory of Northern Mindanao.
6. The Premier City of Northern Mindanao.
7. The Most Busiest Port In Mindanao.
8. The Fastest Growing Population Among Non-Metro, Highly-Urbanized Cities.
9. The Calmest People all over the Philippines.
10.The ICT HUB Center of Mindanao.
11. The Most Radical People In Mindanao Towards Political Change (Long-Time Opposition City Against Corrupt Administrations)
12. The Only City of White Water Rafting Adventure all over the Philippines.
13. One of the Highly-Urbanized Cities that has maintained its green and clean sceneries.
14. Perhaps the Most Friendly and Most Peaceful City in whole Mindanao.
15. Home To The Valiant Heroes
16. The City which has the FIRST JESUIT UNIVERSITY IN VISMIN.

Walay mopalag!!! CDO thread to at dapat
pagrespetuhin.

[akiba]

Some Highlights For CDO In Celebrating JUNE 12, 2007
3rd Week of December 1898---the Spanish went back to Spain. Spain sold Philippines for 20 million dollars to Americans. Cagayan de Misamis' Katipuneros celebrated the independence and tasted the the 15 months of freedom, peace, progress, and justice.
1900---Beginning of Philippine-American War.
---Cagayanon fighters met and had a blood pact in the Casa Real ( which is the hospital now across Gaston Park) to fight with blood and sweat and even to the last man.
---Tirso Neri and Joselito Casa Roa, the richest Cagayanons at that time, privately financed the Cagayan de Misamis' Resistance without national or Aguinaldo's help.
---Arm Factory was built at Puerto Hills.
---The Transportation Ship, a gift of Tirso Neri to his wife, Mercedes Neri, was donated to the Cagayanon fighters as their battleship for navy, having only 5 canons all.
---Francisco Abellanosa, a Cagayanon poet, musician, playwright, and actor composed the Cagayan de Oro, Our Pride, Our Beloved City. He used his talents to raise funds for the fighters by roaming all around Cagayan de Misamis thru sedacious, anti-American imperialism play, which he even acted himself.
1902---Battle of Agusan Hill. Captain Vicente Roa fought gallantly and died a martyr along with his men. All of them wiped out. Major Akut protected and escorted the escapade of Gen. Capistrano.
---Battle of Gusa. Gen. Capistrano totally escaped to Ala-e, Bukidnon and rallied Bukidnon warriors there on his side.
May 1902---Battle of Macahambus Hill led by Captain Apolinar Velez. Cagayanons won the battle, and the only major battle won throughout Philippine-American War. Many Americans died and only one Cagayanon died, Lieutenant Apolinario Nacalaban.
June 1902---Gen. Vamenta sent a warning signal to Apolinar Velez to leave Macahambus Hill once due to the planned massive attack by Americans as a vengeance. The fighters and their families jumped to Cagayan River and let the riverflow destined their safety.
July 1902---Gen. Vamenta underattacked by the superior Americans during the battle, a place which is now Vamenta Road, escaped to Lumbia meeting Apolinar Velez there.
---Velez again went back at American detachment (now MOGHS) at dawn, while Americans were sleeping. One of the Bukidnon warrior had cut the head of the American sentry and shouted a battlecry as their culture after killing an enemy; thus the Americans got ready and had hand to hand battle. Velez nearly collapsing to have victory ran away with few men.
---Major Tomasaco fought gallantly in the place now at High Ridge. He was captured and treated by American medical practitioners, but died few minutes later due to his fatal wound on his abdomen.
His companions escaped to Camaman-an where another battle took place lead by Gaerlan. Gaerlan was captured and died in exile in Guam.
Last week of December of 1902---Gen. Capistrano, the supreme commander of the resistance surrendered at Gusa.
----The Battle was over. Tirso Neri and Casa Roa had lost most of their fortunes.
----From then on, CDO became one of the peaceful cities in the Philippines.

Mga Malalakas and Very Brave ang mga Bayani natin!!! VIVA CDO!!!
These historical highlights i have posted now were actually happened before. Coming from my great grandfaher, my visible evidence is my native lolo here who was born on circa 1910.

[bloodyred]

Baka sabihin ng iba dyan masyado na tayong mayabang. Hinay hinay lang, diba nga ang mga bida sa huli na lumalaban at nagpapatalo muna.

[FrancisXavier]

OA si akiba! yun lang masasabi ko. MODS, please delete those kind of post. masakit sa mata.

[Sera]

Let's celebrate the confirmation of the Hanjin Facility in Phividec kasi based sa news report Hanjin is putting up a school to train 10,000 personnel for its future $1.2 billion investment in the city

[Sera]

Originally Posted by FrancisXavier

Limketkai Center Masterplan

Will they still extend the LKK Mall. Kasi based on your picture a part of the mall building is not circled. So maybe that multi-storey building will still be constructed

[bariQ]

wow really? kumikita siguro ang ketkai no?

[Sera]

Limketkai remains the Biggest & Most Developed Commercial Center in Mindanao, even with the entry of SM, the center is unparalled in terms of sales or foot traffic. So its only right that they build an Ayala, Araneta, Greenhills Mixed-Use type dev't for Cagayan de Oro.

[FrancisXavier]

Originally Posted by Sera

Will they still extend the LKK Mall. Kasi based on your picture a part of the mall building is not circled. So maybe that multi-storey building will still be constructed

yeah.. The structure parallel to Natasha's office is not on its existence. that perhaps is an extension of the South Concourse.

[Sera]

Three major mall dev'ts will still be pursued. First is the multi-level 4th Quadrant LKK mall extension fronting Robinsons CDO, then the mall extension of Robinson's CDO going to the former CDO cockpit arena then the third one was the building fronting the Natasha building. All said & done the LKK Mall alone will probably have a Gross Leasable Area exceeding 200, 000 sq. meters after these dev'ts - Making it comparable to the bigger Manila malls of today

[bariQ]

tapos na ba yung bagong carmen bridge? tuloy ba yung LANDCO mall?

[boju]

Kung magtayo ang Landco ng mall ei marami na tayong mall. Pano na makapagpatayo si Ayala ng mall ei sobra na ang mga mall dito. Sana gawin nalang sport zone yan as what I've read sometime in the news that the Golez (owner of Liceo de Cagayan) will develop that area to a sport zone. Mas maganda siguro kung ipagpaliban nalang ang Lanco mall and give way to Ayala ASAp to build mall. Kasi yung area yan malapit sa mga residential siguradong magkatrafic na to the high level ang Nazareth, Macasandig at Macanhan area kung may mall na dyan.....

[bariQ]

yes I would prefer that too! dapat world class stadium! lumang luma na ang pelaez... so magiging dalawa na sport centers nila~!

[bloodyred]

Guys, I found this article on American Chronicle. It highlights CDO's competitiveness, fast growing economy and bright future. Although medyo luma na ang article it still sparked my intrest. Im sure matutuwa nito sa @akiba


Cagayan de Oro: Still the hottest prospect for business in Mindanao


Mike Banos
April 5, 2006

Northern Mindanao (Region 10) continues to accelerate as the island?s biggest and fastest growing regional economy. From 5.06% in 2003, it grew 6.04% in 2004, contributing 27.17% to Mindanao?s total production with the highest share of the island?s gross domestic product. Besides having the highest GRDP in Mindanao, its per capita GRDP is the third highest in the country, indicating a growing middle class and a general improvement in the standard of living regionwide.

?Cagayan de Oro continues to be the fulcrum and center of economic activity in Northern Mindanao,? said Ruben Vegafria, president of the Cagayan de Oro chamber of commerce and industry (Orochamber).

Known as the City of Golden Friendship, two of the Philippine?s leading think tanks perceive vast potentials beyond the fabled warmth and hospitality of Cagayan de Oro city and its residents.

Roberto de Vera, author and regional studies director of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P), cites Cagayan de Oro as the best positioned for future growth and investments among 23 leading urban regional cities of the Philippines.

In his 2000 paper ?Investing in Regional Cities: the Next Big Thing,? de Vera describes Cagayan de Oro as the gateway and regional shopping center to the eight cities and five provinces of the booming Northern Mindanao region.

Although it ranked only 16th among the 23 cities in the study in Gross City Domestic Product (GCDP) with P4.93 billion, it led all others in investments with P16.5 billion. It was also the only city in Mindanao among the top five cited by the study in investments posted with the Board of Investments (BOI) in 1999.

Cagayan de Oro is the capital city of Northern Mindanao, which attracted P19.22-billion investments in 2005, 38% higher than the P13.965-billion recorded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 2004. A total of 197 firms registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2005, 14% more than last year, with paid-up capital increasing 13% to P70.9 million from 2004.

Cagayan de Oro was also cited in a 2000 study by the Washington Sycip Policy Forum -- a think tank of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) -- because of its "focused vision for its economic future.?

The study said Cagayan de Oro's competitiveness was enhanced by its strong economic ties such as with the Northern and Central Visayas regions, Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Corridor (CIC), and the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA).

More recently, AIM Policy Center?s ?Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2003? ranked Cagayan de Oro third overall (1st in Mindanao) in urban competitiveness among 13Mid-Sized Philippines Cities included in the study.

The study covers 50 cities nationwide and uses both ranking and scoring methods that rate Philippines cities vis-?is seven major drivers of competitiveness: cost of doing business, dynamism of local economy, linkages and accessibility, quality of human resources and training, infrastructure, responsiveness of local government to business needs, and quality of life. Scores for each of the seven indicators were converted into a 10-point scale based on national and global benchmarks.

Cagayan de Oro scored high in the following: dynamism of the local economy (3rd, 6.53); human resources and training (3rd, 6.84), responsiveness of local government to business needs (3rd, 6.13), infrastructure (2nd, 6.17). Together with its third place rank for Mid-Sized Philippine Cities (first among five in Mindanao), and overall urban competitiveness score (6.18), its rankings and scores indicate it already enjoys above average competitiveness but still has room for improvement, and hence accommodate new players.

Another unique feature of Cagayan de Oro is how its strong real estate property development is balanced by inter-regional infrastructure development such as the Mindanao Container Port, and widening of its Iligan-Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon Road (ICBR), the road artery which links it to key regional satellite growth centers.

With over 100 subdivisions containing 80,000 lots covering over 1,000 hectares and counting, the real estate boom in the city has been tempered by recently completed inter-city infrastructure such as the construction of an additional bridge across the Cagayan river, and the East and West coast public utility terminals which have eased the city's traffic gridlock.

Which is just as well, because although Cagayan de Oro city itself ?officially? only has half a million residents, it serves a consumer base of well over three million people covering the five provinces (Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Occidental) and eight cities (Cagayan de Oro, Gingoog, Iligan, Malaybalay. Oroquieta, Ozamiz, Tangub and Valencia) of Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) as its regional shopping center.

Already, SM City and rival Big R Super Center have set up mixed-use shopping malls to rival Limketkai and local titans Ororama and Gaisano which all boast of department stores, concessionaires, national food chains and cinemas equal if not better than similar stores in other regional centers like Cebu, Bacolod and Davao. More recently, specialty stores like CITI Hardware, Robin?s Home Depot and Pilipinas Makro have set up shop for more segmented clientele.

Next online is an ambitious P4.5-billion ?satellite city? of the Ayala Group of Companies in Barangay Indahag, whose groundbreaking is set this December. Plans for the 200-ha. mixed-use business complex include modern and high-end sports and recreational facilities, a full-range of low-cost to high-end residential subdivisions and a shopping mall. Another similar project on the East Coast of the city which was previously placed in the freezer due to legal difficulties is about to be thawed out and fast-tracked to the microwave anytime.

Besides wholesales and retailers, light and medium industries are also finding Cagayan de Oro and its satellite areas an ideal home with its mix of affordable industrial parks, reliable and affordably priced utilities, and central location linked to the rest of the country and the ASEAN region with seamless transportation and communications.

The 3,000-hectare PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate-Misamis Oriental is the country's largest, with the 200-hectare First Cagayan de Oro Business Park and the 80-hectare Alwana Business Park now online. Three others are in the pipeline: Laguindingan Industrial Park, El Salvador Economic Zone, and Gingoog Special Economic Zone.

Already, 19 light and medium industries are operating in Cagayan de Oro, the largest of which are Del Monte Philippines, Inc. and Nestl?hilippines, Inc.'s ASEAN regional manufacturing center for milk powder. Another 30 or so industries are operating in the Phividec Industrial Estate-Misamis Oriental.

In large part due to this mix of industrial infrastructure and locational advantages, exports topped US$541.424-million in 2005, up a hefty 18% over 2004?s US$459.125-million. Downstream industries, taking advantage of the city's proximity to the agriculture powerhouse Bukidnon, churned out an increasingly diverse array of products to complement the region's predominantly coconut-and-pineapple export base. Largely as a result of these, regional employment stood at 94.6%, also higher than the national figure of 92.6%.

Another reason for the continued increase in exports and gross city domestic product are Cagayan de Oro's recent and planned transportation and communications projects through which the lifeblood of this regional dynamo flows. Already served by five telephone local exchange centers (LECs), four mobile phone companies, and ten internet service providers (ISPs), it is riding high on the wave of convergence sweeping the country?s communications industry with voice, text, data and video seamlessly inter-weaving through land lines, mobile phones, the internet, cable TV and wireless.

So far, the city already has three call centers : Link2Support, the city?s first at Pueblo de Oro IT Park, TradeTel Corp. in Carmen and Arriba in Limketkai Center with a total capacity of 469 seats providing medical transcription, software development and tele-servicing and product support services. Another IT park is planned for the Alwana Business Park while another international call center has just signified its intention to operate here.

However, what is expected to bring the erstwhile fastest growing of Philippine cities into the big leagues are projects not yet quite in the pipeline but would inevitably be realized due to the inexorable pressure of market forces.

?Once it?s a potential, it?s bound to happen,? says Edward V. Argayoso, president of the city?s oldest appraisal firm. ?It becomes a matter of price.?

Among these are the controversial sale and transfer of the Cagayan de Oro City Hall, the sale and development of the 150-has. Cagayan de Oro airport complex at Lumbia, the proposed sale and transfer of the Misamis Oriental provincial capitol complex to a new location outside Cagayan de Oro, and the sale and transfer of the Cagayan de Oro City Central School complex along Velez and Yacapin streets.

Argayoso notes all these projects are at the disposition of cash-strapped local and national governments. If market forces continue to exert upward pressure on the market prices for these prime properties, it?s inevitable they would soon be up for development in one way or another.

Since the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) came online last year, two more flagship infrastructure projects are edging nearer to the pipeline: the P5.8-billion Laguindingan airport in Misamis Oriental and the P2.63-billion Tubod-Tangub bridge in Lanao del Norte-Misamis Occidental.

Though both are viable projects mainly hampered by funding difficulties, national, regional and local leaders are working closely together to find innovative alternatives which can bring them online in the next 5-7 years.

Not the least, the leisure industry appears to be crossing even political and ideological lines as Cagayan de Oro has been relatively spared the violence which has rocked Mindanao's urban centers lately. Although its peace and order situation is by no means impeccable, these are more in the nature of petty crimes that come with progress, and not the wholesale bombings and killings many have come to associate with Mindanao.

The most logical explanation for this is multi-cultural harmony: Despite the diversity of beliefs and ideological convictions, residents share the same admiration and affection for the City of Golden Friendship, the city that has become a home to migrants and ever-increasing number of visitors over the years.

[Sinjin P.]

akiba, stop shouting!

[Sera]

Originally Posted by boju

Kung magtayo ang Landco ng mall ei marami na tayong mall. Pano na makapagpatayo si Ayala ng mall ei sobra na ang mga mall dito. Sana gawin nalang sport zone yan as what I've read sometime in the news that the Golez (owner of Liceo de Cagayan) will develop that area to a sport zone. Mas maganda siguro kung ipagpaliban nalang ang Lanco mall and give way to Ayala ASAp to build mall. Kasi yung area yan malapit sa mga residential siguradong magkatrafic na to the high level ang Nazareth, Macasandig at Macanhan area kung may mall na dyan.....

Mas maganda kung gawin nilang Sports Center with commercial/retail development yung area para at least mag cater din sila ng need ng residents na malapit sa area.

[FrancisXavier]

may sports facility na sa Area na yan named "Sports Zone". The best in CDO i guess. It got everything.May golf din. Parang may bowling lanes din..not sure.