PALAYAN CITY, Nueva Ecija—Work was set to start next month on a P2 billion modern “city within a city” government center here, which officials described as the single biggest project of the province in years, Mayor Adrianne Mae Cuevas said on Friday.
She said the Palayan City Business Hub (PCBH) will be a one-stop shop government center and commercial area with modern buildings and a 7,500 square meters central plaza, which will serve a main activity center.
“The center is located on a 3.4 hectare site in Barangay Singalat donated by the city,” Cuevas said.
The PCBH will rise next to the provincial capitol and the Palayan City Hall. Offices of government agencies will be transferred here from Cabanatuan City to make it easy for people to transact business with the government.
The project is a joint venture agreement between the provincial government and Alloy MTD, a Malaysian conglomerate. They will erect four multi-story buildings with state-of-the-art facilities.
Cuevas said the provincial government has obtained the approval of the Energy Regulatory Commission to connect directly with the Luzon grid to ensure stable and sufficient power.
“The project will generate 13,000 jobs, including 10,000 call center agents in two BPO (business processing outsourcing buildings,” she said.
Alloy MTD, which operates in 13 countries including the US and China has been credited with building world-class government centers patterened after Putrajaya, a planned city and federal administrative center 25 kms south of Kuala Lumpur.
Putrajaya, which features a network of open spaces and wide boulevards, was constructed in 1995 at a cost of $8.1 billion, the biggest project in Malaysia and one of the biggest in Southeast Asia.
Alloy MTD projects in the Philippines include construction of the P3.9 billion South Luzon Expressway and the P2.5 billion Calabarzon Regional Government Center.
source: Manila Standard
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