PALAYAN
CITY, Nueva Ecija – A government center serving as a miniature version of the
Putrajaya federal administrative center of Malaysia is in the works in this
once laid-back city.
The Putrajaya-type government center
cum business hub is envisioned by Alloy MTD, the Malaysian conglomerate which
forged a joint venture agreement with the provincial government for the
construction of the P1.5-billion Palayan City Business Hub (PCBH) at a
3.4-hectare site in Barangay Singalat at the back of City Hall.
Isaac David, president of Alloy MTD
Philippines which is a subsidiary of Alloy MTD Malaysia, said they are not only
committed to offer world-class facilities but give comfort and convenience to
people and thus, will pursue government centers patterned after Putrajaya.
Putrajaya is a planned city 25
kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur. Made up of a network of open spaces and wide
boulevards, it was constructed in 1995 as the biggest project in Malaysia and
one of the biggest in Southeast Asia at a cost of $8.1 billion.
Alloy MTD bankrolled the construction
of the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and the Calabarzon Regional Government
Center (CRGC). It is targeting to construct P10 billion worth of government
centers in the country through Public
Private Partnership (PPP) with the CRGC serving as template.
Last Thursday, officials of Alloy MTD
and its subsidiary joined Gov. Aurelio Umali in ground-breaking activities for
the PCBH, considered yet as the single, biggest Capitol project under the Umali
administration.
Present during the rites were Azmil Khalid, chief executive
officer of Alloy MTD Group of Malaysia and head of the Malaysia-Philippines
Business Council (MPBC), David, Mayor Adrianne Mae Cuevas whose city government
donated the lot for the project site which will house buildings for government
offices with retail and commercial spaces, two state-of-the-art business
process outsourcing (BPO) buildings, a 75-room business hotel and plaza to
serve as activity center.
The main building will be occupied by national
offices that will relocate from Cabanatuan to serve as one-stop shop of all government
services.
Cuevas said the PCBH is labor-intensive and will
generate 13,000 jobs, 10,000 of which in
call centers alone, with the rest to come from the operations of the various
commercial establishments, the hotel and the government offices.
Alloy MTD is a leading Asian infrastructure
conglomerate operating in 13 countries, notably the United States, United
Kingdom, China, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Chile.
Aside from infrastructure, its operations range from
civil engineering and construction, manufacturing, energy, port operations,
real estate and property development and operation and maintenance. It has developed
world-class mountain roads, highways, bridges and engaged in geotechnical
works, highway maintenance and erosion control.
Alloy MTD and MTD Philippines constructed the
P3.9-billion, 36-kilometer SLEX in Calamba, Laguna which was completed in
February 2012 and the P2.5-billion CRGC, dubbed the “Complete City” in Barangay
Mapagong, also in Calamba housing offices in the provinces of Cavite, Laguna,
Rizal and Quezon.
David said in keeping with its avowed mission to
establish world-class one-stop shop regional government centers in one
accessible location per region across the country through PPP, they will be constructing
three government centers worth P6.2 billion.
These are the P1.5-billion,70,000 square meter “The
Octagon” in Palo, Leyte, the P3.7-billion “Pili Complex” in Camarines Sur and
the P1-billion government center in Maguindanao.
Like the PCBH, the three mega-projects will all have
buildings for government offices, retail and commercial spaces, BPOs, business
hotel and Capitol buildings.
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