Cebu One of Asia's best Islands

[arnoldsa]

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tinuod jud ning Cebu Boardwalk project sa Manadaue because the future home of Cebu Doctors' University will be there...

bump..

[arnoldsa]

Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Cebu Boardwalk aims to improve tourism

A MULTIBILLION-PESO project located in the Mandaue City reclamation area is expected to help boost the tourism potential of the province of Cebu.

Department of Tourism (DOT) 7 Regional Director Patria Aurora “Dawnie” Roa said the development of the Cebu Boardwalk (CB) by Manila-based developer FF Cruz & Co. Inc. (FFCCI) is timely, as it comes after President Arroyo recognized Cebu’s tourism potential by relocating the DOT national office to Cebu.

“Cebu (province), Mandaue specifically, is lucky to have an investor at this point where Cebu is now the focus of tourism,” she said during the presentation of the CB to prospective locators Monday at the Cebu City Marriott Hotel.

Roa said the President is speeding up the transfer of the DOT national office to Cebu, as there are proposals for the agency to stay at the Malacañang in the South, while waiting for the completion of the DOT building at Kawit Point in the South Road Properties (formerly South Reclamation Project).

The boardwalk, designed as a tourism and leisure hub in Cebu, will sit on the 14-hectare area of the 118-hectare Mandaue reclamation project, also a project of FFCCI.

Controversy

FFCCI president Felipe Cruz expressed his joy over the start of the Cebu Boardwalk’s development, which he described as a project “filled with controversies.”

“Now all cases have been dismissed, and we are starting the development.

The idea, which was born in 1996, will soon be materialized,” he said.

CB property management director Yvonne Gomos said the horizontal development of CB will start today, while building construction is set to begin next month.

She said FFCCI aims to complete the project by June next year.

The company has already received letters of intent (LOI) from prospective investors, who have expressed interest in investing in the development, Gomos said.

She said FFCCI would like to attract locators, half of which would be from Cebu, with the rest coming from outside Cebu, including companies overseas.

Investors

Prospective investors include a group from the United States that wants to develop four hectares of the Boardwalk into a retirement city and a Korean theme park operator, which expressed interest in running CB’s one-hectare family theme park.

Aside from the retirement city and theme park, Cebu Boardwalk will also have an 8,000-square-meter amphitheater park, which will be an ideal venue for concerts, theater productions, cultural presentations and huge expositions; cinemas; art gallery; marina and yacht club; marina promenade; a Zen center where fitness gyms, health spas, hair salons and skin and body care salons will be located.

It will also have a tourist center, visitor center, souvenir shops, antique shops, duty free shops, restaurant strips, fastfood chains, food court, retail shops, banks, themed flea market and a trade and exhibition center.

Gomos said FFCCI aims to transform the area into a world-class visitor destination, aside from spurring economic and financial development in Mandaue. This will enhance tourism and socio-economic activities, ensuring sustainable and excellent quality development. (

[downtownboyla]

tinuod jud ning Cebu Boardwalk project sa Manadaue because the future home of Cebu Doctors' University will be there...

bump..

Bitaw, na purma na ang Cebu Boardwalk? Maayo unta ug nindot kaayo na siya nga project. Na-a kay rendering sa Cebu Boardwalk? I post unya diri.

[arnoldsa]

Sinulog anniversary na!

[~phIber_gaius]

proud to be from cebu

[arnoldsa]

Hapit na ni ma-porma ang Cebu Boardwalk... Cebu Doctors' University will already be building their Campus there by April 2005...... ahoy!

Another news... ni-open na ang HILTON Resorts sa Mactan

[ViolentFemme]

was just in cebu for the sinulog and brought a couple of US friends wid me...their first time visit...like mcdonalds commercial..."we're lovin' it"!!!

[arnoldsa]

This City is the first in Southeast Asia to have a metro-wide WIFI network....! meaning to say that wifi is not just available in Starbucks, or whatever but in the entire city!

So you can just sit at Fuente park and surf the net wirelessly, or you can go to any neighborhood that is within the coverage of the wifi hotspot and off you go!!!

There are now plans to extend the network from Minglanilla down south to Danao city up north!!!

[forum_angel]

One of Asia's best islandS??...dapat lang!!!hehehe
keep rockin' cebu...!!!!!

[sachem]

naahh... its just the result of tourist marketings and stuffs. i would still prefer my homeland than cebu.. again, its just marketing.