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The Department of Tourism (DoT) wants to embark on a multibillion-peso redevelopment program for Intramuros, the oldest district in Manila, by including it in the public-private partnership (PPP) program being pushed by Malacañang.
By making it a PPP priority project, the DoT wishes to attract such big-name developers as Ayala Land, Eton Properties, Alliance Global, SM Development, JG Summit, atbp. to the prime five-hectare property in Manila where they might put up their shopping malls, cinemas, mixed-use commercial and residential condominiums within the next five years, or before President Aquino steps down from office.
The national government may indeed have exquisite plans for the centuries-old “Walled City” (as Intramuros is called in the history books) that was built by the colonizing Spaniards, but there is this “small matter” of a few hundred squatter families that have managed to illegally build houses within the historic structure..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110414com4.html
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