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The Redevelopment of Araneta Center
Araneta Center, Cubao, QC
Progressive Development Corporation

Araneta Center is one of the busiest and pioneer shopping and entertainment hubs in the country. It is here where all forms of entertainment and business converge. Cinemas, retail centers, wet markets, department stores, concert and sports halls – name them and they are all here. In fact, even Asia’s biggest coliseum is located at the heart of Araneta Center, the Big Dome (formerly Araneta Coliseum), host to most international and local concerts, events, and productions.  Ali Mall, one of the country’s first malls to rise can be found in the center. Biggest names in Philippine retail industry – Rustan’s, SM, and Fairmart – have also found their homes in Araneta Center.

The town of Casiguran in the Province of Aurora in the Philippines holds one of the greatest potentials for economic development in South-East Asia. A Master-Plan for a Seaport, Airport, and advanced self-sustaining farming and residential communities will emblazon the mark of the Philippines as a trade and industry hub in Asia; able to compete with Singapore, Kaohsiung and Indonesia. At the center of it all, the Aurora Special Economic Zone stands as a shining beacon for the success of that dream.

The master-planned zone is comprised of nine buildings that cater to Aurora’s potential as a key player in Green Architecture, tourism, sports and leisure, business development, and health and safety. All structures were oriented away from the East-West axis to reduce solar heating and solar gain. From the Entry Plaza, one is immediately greeted by a large expanse of space that is finished in building stone, concrete and glass. A hotel gives respite for the traveler who values communing with nature and contemporary building design. The ground floor holds a business center, offices, and shops to cater to the guests’ every need. For those who value privacy. The succeeding floors pay homage to clean and precise lines that offset the mountainous terrain of Aurora’s landscape. Hotel villas play the important role of a quiet and restful commune with nature-with units having a large viewing deck and connecting doors, where couples can easily rent for themselves or have the option to accommodate an entire family with just a turn of the knob. A clubhouse holds various leisure and sports facilities to refresh and invigorate the sport enthusiast. A Service Support building provides shelter for the ambulance and fire safety trucks. Staff housing facilities are also finished in the same sophistication as the rest of the buildings; it also aims to reduce the impact on the surrounding environment by its low height and economical layout of rooms.

Sprawling on three-hundred hectares of rolling terrain, First Philippine Industrial Park is a development encompassing all the elements essential for a well-planned industrial park. It is subdivided into four phases: 1A, 1B, 2, and 3. Phase 1A covers 75 hectares which the President of the Philippines proclaimed as special economic zone. Phase 1B has a total area of 105 hectares; Phase 2 covers 120 hectares and Phase 3 has 39 hectares for residential development. Entirely, First Philippine Industrial Park has a total land area of approximately 339 hectares. First Philippine Industrial Park can be reached through the national highway which connects Batangas to Manila. With the completion of the South Superhighway extension and the proposed Sto. Tomas interchange, First Philippine Industrial Park is expected to attract more investors in and out of the country.

A 167 Has. Masterplanned Development
Clark, Pampanga
 
A World Class Aerotropolis
            
The Global Gateway Logistics City is a 1.67 million-square meter modern state-of-the-art logistics and technology park located inside the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) in Northern Luzon, Pampanga. Located just 60 minutes north of Metro Manila, Global Gateway is ideally situated directly adjacent to the largest international airport in the Philippines and one of the largest international airports in the entire Pacific. Clark field also offers another major advantage over any other techno park and logistics park in the country. This shall be the basis of creating an aviation logistics support hub in the area of Industrial Estate 5 to both enhance, compliment and support the anticipated development and market that Diosdado Macapagal International Airport and the nearby seaport of Subic offers.

The amenities Global Gateway offers are all situated in a park-like setting, with patrolled perimeter security and control points delivering reliable and well-maintained state-of-art infrastructure and facilities. Other amenities include an arcaded commercial plaza and mall complex providing common services for employees, visitors and corporations ranging from teleconference centers, meeting rooms, dining facilities, banking services, office supply stores, retail outlets, on-site security and facilities maintenance teams ready 24x7 to ensure uninterrupted services.

The conceptual framework for the development of the South Harbor Expanded Port Zone (SHEPZ) is hinged on the integrated, interactive groupings of multistory and multi-use structures intersperse with appropriately landscaped courts, plazas, pedestrian breezeways, and street corridors. The SHPEZ mixed-use development will be less a collection of independent buildings and more a grouping of tiered and articulated structures of open and closed spaces and interconnecting passageways further becoming a true Metropolitan Center.