Ayala Land Inc. chair Fernado Augusto Zobel de Ayala (right photo), leads the lowering and covering of the time capsule in Tuesday’s groundbreaking ceremony of Abreeza, a mixed-used development of a 10-hectare property on JP Laurel Ave. in Bajada, Davao City, that includes the construction of Ayala Mall and two BPO buildings, among others. (Sun.Star Davao/Seth delos Reyes)
photos courtesy of Junsta from flickr. Thanks!
Abreeza is the first and only Ayala mall in the island of Mindanao. It’s going to be a mixed use project, a mall with ICT/BPO buildings for callcenters and other IT players.
Here are some photos taken by a good friend, Darry aka Peng Hok from SSC-Davao. Thanks Darry for these photos.
Fenced property of the Anflocor where the Ayala mall and mini-city in Davao would soon rise – Abreeza!
Street dancing in Davao City during the Kadayawan Festival (3rd week of August) from daytime till nighttime!
My dear readers and fellow bloggers, I sincerely apologized for not updating this blog for weeks. I had been busy with my work and my real estate business.
Speaking of real estate business, I visited my beloved birth city – Davao during the Kadayawan Festival. There are several real estate developments in the city. Lemme show it to you in a form of a collage ehehehe. I had posted this collage in another website and I believe some bloggers copied what I posted. Anyway, Im just posting what I originally made here in my own blog. These are the MRBs or mid rise condominiums which are being constructed in Davao.
Here’s an initial list of the current condo projects in Davao City:
One Oasis Davao – 5 condo buildings (underconstruction)
2 condotels (proposed)
Magallanes Residences – 3 condo buildings (underconstruction)
Linmarr Towers – 3 condo buildings (underconstruction)
Noblesse Heights – 3 condo buildings (underconstruction)
Eco4000 – 2 condo buildings (completed)
u/c Condo building across Chimes Mall – 1 building
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A total of 19 condominium buildings which are being developed as I write this blog.
There were reports that the Ayala Center in Davao will be called as Abreza. Hmmmm sounds ok. Anyway, whether it would be called Abreza or simply Ayala Center Davao, Im pretty sure that this is an upcoming landmark of the city.
Anybody seen its rendering? To those who wish to see the rendering and more pix of Abreza also known as Ayala Center Davao, kindly visit this link:
http://ptlavina.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/ayala-center-davao-fotos/
Ayala Center Davao - photo courtesy of Councilor Peter Lavina
This is from Councilor Peter Laviña’s blog site.
Monday, July 14, 2008 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Corporate News
Ayala Land project gets Davao’s support
DAVAO CITY — The housing committee of the City Council has recommended the partial conversion of a nine-hectare property into a commercial zone in support of a P3-billion joint project of Ayala Land, Inc. and Anflocor Investment and Development Co.
Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo B. Cabling, committee chairman, said the recommendation is in support of big businesses coming to Davao City. The property was earlier identified as a residential area under the city’s 1996 Zoning Code.
Mr. Cabling said the recommendation of his committee was to approve the project in support of big businesses coming to the city. Councilor Danilo C. Dayanghirang, majority floor leader, said he would lobby for the approval of the recommendation.
The two councilors said the Ayala project is a sign for other big businesses to invest in Davao City.
A week ago, the Asian Institute of Management released a survey recognizing the city as the most competitive in the big metropolis category. But the International Finance Corp. has also released a study showing the city is inefficient in processing business applications.
Aside from a shopping mall, the project will also have a two-hectare information and communications technology (ICT) park and other amenities.
Ricardo R. Floirendo, Anflocor South Operations senior vice-president, earlier said the project, forged in Makati City last year, would be a mini city — “a shopping mall with a garden.” Read the rest of this entry »
From Sunstar.com.ph
By Ben O. Tesiorna
THE P3 billion Ayala Center Davao business park and mall project is expected to be approved by the City Council Tuesday, thus becoming the biggest single investment in decades in the country’s most competitive metropolitan.
The multi-billion project is a joint venture of Ayala Land Inc. and Anflocor Investment and Development Company Inc. and its sister companies under the umbrella of the Anflocor group of companies.
The Ayala Center Davao would stand on a nine-hectare property owned by the Floirendos, along business district Bajada in J.P. Laurel Avenue in front of the Redemptorist Church.
The City Council would tackle in regular session on Tuesday the application by Anflocor senior vice president Ricardo Floirendo to reclassify into major commercial zone portions of the property declared as residential zone in the 1996 Zoning Code.
Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, chair of the housing committee, has recommended approval of the application, on strength of recommendations by the City Planning and Development Office and the City Zoning division.
Floor leader Danilo Dayanghirang said last week that he would take the lead in lobbying for the approval of the application. He set the application into the agenda of Tuesday’s session, saying the project submitted all requirements.
He described the project as the “kind of business that we should fully support”.
Both Cabling and Dayanghirang agree Ayala Center Davao is the strongest expression by business of their full trust and confidence in the viability of Davao City as an investment haven under the leadership of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
Mayor Duterte also gave his all-out support for the project during the launch of the joint venture attended by Anflocor and Ayala Malls Group officials during the recent anniversary celebration of Anflocor in Davao City.
The multi-billion peso business park and mall complex project will start construction this year, with its first component the IT/BPO building set to be operational next year.
The centerpiece of the mega-project, the Ayala Center Davao, the 11th by the Makati-based Ayala Land throughout the country, would be completed before end of 2010.
