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Latest updates about Revitalization of Iloilo’s Central Business District

• Revitalization of Iloilo’s Central Business District
• MIGEDC avails P5 M grant
• ‘All-star cast’ for city’s Task Force Calle Real
• Calle Real de Iloilo
• Conserving our Heritage

Project Details: The Central Business District (CBD) of Iloilo City is composed of the old commercial areas in the City Proper. Before the coming of malls, the streets of Iloilo’s CBD were lined with traces of bustling trade and commerce. Droves of people would come to shop and transact business in all sorts of shops. Today, new air-conditioned malls have taken the limelight and attracted a considerable portion of the market share. Though, the old CBD remains as an important shopping destination because of its low-cost buys.

Iloilo’s downtown area during the Chinese New Year
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Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the GTZ, a German technical assistance group, will finance a P5 million pre-feasibility study to further liven up economic activities in the city’s commercial district especially the old Calle Real and the proposed construction of the P2 million Eco Port. Continue Reading »

A seemingly all-star cast of characters were gathered by Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas tasked to help bring the city closer to its goal of becoming a premier city.

With key figures in the private sector as members, Mayor Trenas created “Task Force Calle Real” following observations that the city’s original central business district has since been given less attention. Read more »

“); } else { echo(”“); }; ?>Time stood still amidst the hustle and bustle of downtown traffic of modernity. Decades old establishments still stand against the test of time, reflecting the glorious days of commerce and trade of what was then, the Queen City of the South. Continue Reading »

A PERCEIVED dilemma for the city administrators, planners, and mayors is that preserving our heritage buildings is costly and is not economically sound. They say it is better to demolish these old buildings and build new ones. They say the new ones would be more efficient and safer to work or live in. Nothing can be farther from the truth.

As a matter of fact, old buildings provide the required prestige and dignity, requirements for a city to become truly great. Prestige and dignity as provided by the visages of old buildings can and will boost the economy via tourism and increased investments.
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