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[arnoldsa]

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DANAO CITY TO RISE

MORE development for northern Cebu is expected when the North Coastal Road Project is implemented.

President Arroyo has tasked Tourism Secretary Joseph “Ace” Durano to make sure that the project will push through.

She made the announcement yesterday in her speech during the inauguration of Danao City’s bus terminal-cum-market.

Danao may also be the “center of light industries in the northern part of Cebu,” the President said, after Mayor Ramon “Nito” Durano announced that four Japanese firms expressed plans to expand their operation in the city’s economic zone.

The firms are suppliers of materials for Cebu Mitsumi Corp.

Rep. Ramon “Red” Durano VI (Cebu, 5th district) said the business expansion means more employment opportunities for Danao and the rest of the district.

As to the North Coastal Road project, the President said this is included in the medium-term public investment program of the supra-region. She wants this to complement the Cebu South Coastal Road.

“To make sure that the implementation of the highway will be started right away, the one in charge to follow up is no other than the son of Danao City. So Ace, it will be your fault if the coastal road will not be finished,” Arroyo told the tourism secretary.

The proposed coastal highway, Ace said, is worth more than P3 billion and Arroyo wants it to be finished by 2010.

The feasibility study of the project was done by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation two years ago.

The first component of the project is the P2.3-billion viaduct that will start from the North Reclamation Area in Cebu City to Consolacion town.

The second part is the eight-kilometer road from Consolacion to Liloan Church that is worth P757 million.

The project is expected to cut the travel time from the north to Cebu City by 30 minutes.

[Khabz02]

NICE KAAYO... IMAGINE A VIADUCT FROM NRP CEBU CITY TO CONSOLACION... WOW!!!! FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE COUNTRY

[boy_kotong]

diba naa man unta dalan gikan paknaan mandaue padung lilo-an pero wala mahuman? Na unsa na diay to?

[Shofu]

dats good for CEBU....kanang IT park b4, anha mi dha dagan dagn tan-aw eroplano palupad frm AERO school... at least pud ntawn ning BOOM pudta....

[jimskii]

NICE KAAYO... IMAGINE A VIADUCT FROM NRP CEBU CITY TO CONSOLACION... WOW!!!! FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE COUNTRY

Asa kaha tinuod mag start ang viaduct: NRP sa Mandaue or NRP sa Cebu City. Other report says the viaduct is only 800 meters, then how could the 800 meters reach Consolacion if starts from Cebu City. Anyway basta ilaha lang na sugdan dayon kay traffic kaayo sa Consolacion kanang portion from 4 lanes to 2 lanes maoy bottleneck diha. They should widen that portion up to Danao City kay apil naman ang Danao City sa Metro Cebu.

[diehardbisdak]

Asiatown expects work force hike with new bldg.

AYALA-led Asiatown IT is anticipating an increase in its present 5,700 working population with the completion of the second building of Primary Industrial Properties Corp. (PIPC)

In a statement, Cebu Property Ventures and Development Corp. (CPVDC) said the total annual compensation of employees in Asiatown is estimated to be more than P1.4 billion.

“This is the amount of disposable income that the IT (information technology) park will contribute to Cebu’s economy by the end of 2006, not to mention the income tax component that will be generated out of the employees’ wages,” CPVDC said.

The second building of PIPC, which has a leasable space for offices of about 17,611 square meters, is near completion. The first PIPC property, the Engineering Sciences Building, is already fully occupied by eTelecare, Dash Engineering, SPI Technologies and a ground level retail strip.

Expansion

Skyrise IT Building, which houses PeopleSupport, Epson, Astro Ship, InfoWeapons, Qualfon and Microsoft, is also fully occupied.

PeopleSupport, one of the country’s pioneering contact centers, needed another 1,600 seats for its expansion from their first facility at eOffice One. Epson also expanded and required a bigger facility to accommodate a workforce, which doubled from the time they moved to Asiatown I.T. Park in 2002.

The Cebu facility of Mexico-based call center Qualfon International opened and started operations in June of this year. Its Asiatown I.T. is the firm’s first customer care center in Asia.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has now set up a base in Cebu. Microsoft-Cebu office is temporarily housed at the Ayala FGU Center, but will move to Asiatown in November.

Strength

“Asiatown’s strength as an ecozone is its ability to match investors with ready locators and competent workers,” CPVDC said.

The infrastructure, communication, electricity and manpower quality at Asiatown are at par with the major IT parks not only in Asia but also worldwide,” said Francis Monera, president of CPVDC.

“This has ignited the influx of more IT locators in Cebu and is one of the reasons we are experiencing more aggressiveness in the take-up of commercial lots in (Asiatown) compared to the previous years,” he added.

An IT Special Economic Zone operating for five years now, Asiatown has reported an increase in the number of contact center employees from 1,424 to 2,384. The number of contact center employees composes almost 60 percent of the total employees at Asiatown. (JBN)




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International hotel chain eyes 2 branches in province

AN INTERNATIONAL budget hotel chain is planning to put up a branch in Cebu City and another in Lapu-Lapu City next year.

Microtel Inns and Suites Philippines chief marketing officer Patrick Gregorio said the company is in discussions with possible partners to put up a 100- to 150-room hotel in Cebu City and another on Mactan Island.

Gregorio said Microtel hopes to operate the hotels in the last quarter of 2007.

“We are looking for more partners, either franchise or joint venture, for future hotels in other areas of the province and in the Visayas,” he said in an interview. “We want a Microtel in every province. We’ve got many leads but (for now) we’re still testing the waters.”

“But for Cebu, (future branches) will definitely be successful,” he said.

He said a partnership with Microtel is “very attractive” to potential investors as it allows investment for the establishment of something as small as a 15-room inn.

He said Microtel’s main considerations in branching out would include the price of the land and its location.

Like all Microtel establishments in the United States and other countries, Gregorio said those in the Philippines are known for “very competitive room rates, basic but safe and comfortable accommodation.”

“It’s going to be good for Cebu because we’re going to give more options in terms of prices,” he said.

He also pointed out that Microtel Inns and Suites has been given the “highest ranking in guest satisfaction” for five consecutive years, starting 2002, by J. D. Power and Associates.

With the size being envisioned for Cebu, Gregorio said each hotel could generate about 50 jobs.

Microtel will open next month in Boracay. It has existing hotels in Baguio, Tarlac, Batangas and Cavite. Microtel International has about 290 branches worldwide.

Gregorio said Microtel will expand further, not only in the country, but in Southeast Asia.

“We’re very bullish about the region (Southeast Asia). We’re very excited about the growth of Microtel in Southeast Asia,” he said in a phone interview.

In an interview at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark, Pampanga following the inaugural ceremony of Cebu Pacific’s Cebu-Clark flight service, Gregorio said Microtel is also planning to open in Davao in July next year. (LAP)

[slakker]

good news for cebu, we need more hotel rooms for our ever booming tourism industry...

[diehardbisdak]

...originally posted by @markiiboi

Danao City Bus Terminal



















by TOLZ@2006 of flickr.com

[digitalsuperman]

looks really great..murag ayala terminal ang design..hehehe.i hope well maintained ang terminal.

[nab_uang]

nindot pagkabuhat and terminal... ok kaau :mrgreen: