As seen in the Palafox & Assoc website (www.palafoxoutsourcing.com)
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Local business tycoons in Iloilo are really competing a lot with the national players in the infrastructure developments of the city. In the recently concluded 1-day Iloilo-Guimaras Investment Forums in Manila, a great addition to the shopping destinations in Iloilo was revealed. Mr. Rogelio Florete the man behind Bombo Radyo Philippines and Queen Bank is developing a mall strip for retails and BPOs. The proposed establishment is a Spanish-Italian styled building called Plazuela de Iloilo designed by the most notable Palafox and Associates who are also tasked to do the Iloilo City urban planning. This will host retail stores, coffee shops and restaurants in the ground floor and BPO locators in the second floor. The proposed project is located along Diversion Road at the old Nes ‘n Tats Restaurant beside SM City Iloilo that will really compliment and boost the shopping and dining potential of the area. The construction will commence anytime within the last quarter of 2009 under the new venture of Floretes, the Florete Land, Inc. Below are the designs and renderings of the said project.
Project Details and Features:
- lot area: 12,533 sq. m.
- Elevated at 2.05M from the hi-way as it was envisioned to be “flood free”
- 36 leasable spaces
- 8,600 sq. m. gross leasable area (commercial)
- The complex is composed of 3 buildings, administration office and concert stage
- Parking space for over 100 cars
- Construction period – 12 months
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Image sources: Oboi and Bernie
8 Comments on "Plazuela de Iloilo: Florete’s Mall Strip Soon"
Baskog ka, Junn! May aerial view pa ho. This makes me proud to be an Ilonggo. I’m excited! May ara naman ta lagawan kag bag-o nga hangout!
This is the kind of news I want to hear. A sign that Iloilo is on the road to progress! Excited guid ako with this development!!! Thanks for this update, Junn!
I think the image from teh PALAFOX website is OUTDATED since the oens presented i nthe Investment Forum are the images below.
maganda naman ang plan sa iloilo pero dapan palakihan nila ung daan like bacolod ang ganda ksi ang laki nang daan at naka plan…at ang dumi naman sa daan ung electricity dapat underground na para malinis…im from iloilo working in UAE Dubai…im excited pa naman umuwi sa atin…road widening plss…gawa kau road ang liit..useless!
Iloilo is significantly an old city and the road networks were as old as it was, the government could not do anything to widen the roads or else they’ll demolish those establishments on the sides. There are proposed radial and circumferential road networks that aim to alleviate and traffic in Iloilo.Let’s wait and see as the plans unfold.
i know that, what i mean is their making now the new boulevard road only two lanes…it is very small i know that they can make it four lanes…maybe after a year if their is some building will build their then traffic will come and they cant make it wide after…so while they starting they make that after how many years their are no problem…right? same what bacolod doing now. and same here in dubai they plan first…they looking forward what will be happened after.
I think the New Iloilo Blvd is for pedestrian and motorcycles/bikes only…But that has yet to be confirmed, and if it actually will cater to other vehicles then this will not serve its purpose as there were no peds lane on the sides and it is too narrow.Not to mention the unwitting intersections on major junctions (biglang liko nada dan).I hope on the next road projects it will be as wide as 8 lanes, 4-lanes on each side.
how i wish its true 8lanes is good. no traffic at same time, hope they will do same for the road going to SM City.they cam make wide this road….