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Latest updates about Iloilo Business Park by Megaworld Corp.

• Iloilo Projects and Contructions May 2008 Update
• Concept Plan of Megaworld’s “Iloilo Business Park”
• Megaworld begins relocation of squatters in old airport site
• Iloilo Business Park by Megaworld Corp.
• Megaworld to present development plan before SP
• Megaworld to develop BPO triangle
• Megaworld: Visit Iloilo first before Boracay
• Megaworld needs 35MW of power
• Iloilo to rise in BPO world map
• MegaWorld groundbreaking in 3 months, says Treñas

Project Details: Urban property developer Megaworld Corporation has acquired the 54-hectare old airport lot in Mandurriao for P1.2B. Megaworld has also announced plans to invest P1.5B to develop it into a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) hub, the first ever in Western Visayas.

Aerial view of Megaworld Property. Photo by Bernardo Arellano III

The corporation hired the services of Palafox and Associates to make their master plan in the old airport site. The proposed 54.5 hectare Iloilo Business Park by Megaword will adopt a concept of “live-work-play-learn community.” It will have BPO offices, residential condominiums, a hotel, convention center, commercial and retail center, skills training center and recreational facilities. The investment by Megaworld in Iloilo is the first investment made by the corporation outside Manila.

Latest updates about Trans Panay Express

• Trans Panay Express
• Trans Panay Express replaces Panay Railways
• Chinese firm to help in the revival of Panay railway system

Project Details: Formerly known as the Panay Railways, the Trans Panay Express will connect and bring closer two provinces, three cities and 11 municipalities in Panay Island. The 122 kilometer railway line is planned to have fully air-conditioned coaches with 450 passenger capacity and will cut travel time from Iloilo City-Roxas City to 70 minutes.

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THE entry of giant shopping malls has taken its toll on the Central Business District (CBD) in downtown Iloilo City.

But Mayor Jerry Treñas hopes the CBD will be revived starting with the P4.7-million grant from international institutions German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) for consultancy projects. Continue Reading »

What: Summer Party organized by Backtrack! creatives and events and Bourbon Street Grill and Bar
When: March 28 and 29, 2008. Party starts at 9:00pm
Where: Bourbon Street Grill and Bar, Smaville Complex, Diversion Road, Mandurriao District, Iloilo City

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Join the Summer Fever Kick-off Party at Bourbon Street!

Even before the coming of the Spaniards, Iloilo played an important role as a major trading post in the Visayas. Chinese merchants would sail to Iloilo to trade and in effect, building flourishing relationship with the natives. Today, Iloilo holds the distinction of having the third largest concentration of “Tsinoys” or Filipinos with Chinese ancestry or descent in the country. This year of the Rat, the Ilonggos strengthened that Filipino-Chinese relationship with a grand celebration and festivity last February 8, 2007.
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Hotels, restaurants and small food business in the city earned at least P750 million during the week-long Dinagyang celebration. The country’s best tourism event drew some 1.5 million visitors mostly local tourists. Continue Reading »

Iloilo Hotels Restaurant and Resorts Association (IHRRA) president Robert Ferrer is inviting all Chinese restaurants including non-IHRRA member restaurants to participate in the competition for best authentic Chinese food relative to the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration. Continue Reading »

LOILO Dinagyang Foundation, Inc. executive director Ben Jimena in his message during the Miss Iloilo Dinagyang coronation night said that after 40 years, Dinagyang Festival, touted as the best tourism event in the country, has finally arrived, having gotten out of the stigma as a copycat of Kalibo’s Ati-atihan. Continue Reading »

Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival roared off into fervid thumping of drums and costumed tribes of dancers pirouetting to the delight of hundreds of thousands of spectators, both locals and foreigners, throughout Sunday. Continue Reading »

LOILO CITY – Intermittent rain failed to dampen the festive mood of revelers in yesterday’s highlight of the Dinagyang Festival.

Fortunately, it did not rain during the fireworks competition Saturday night at the old airport site, where 18 fireworks manufacturers across the country participated. Continue Reading »