A MASSIVE HIGHWAY COMPLEX MAKES LIVING IN THE SOUTH HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE
CRISS-CROSSING the fringes of National Capital Region are a series of highways designed to connect the country’s central nexus with its outlying provincial hubs. By allowing easier access to the country’s business and lifestyle center from outlying locales, they extend the advantages and advances of the central business district into peripheral cities and provinces. This has begun to create microcosms of CBD well beyond its boundaries.
The Metro is the country's political, economic, and educational center, but it is also the smallest re-gion in the Philippines. However, as it provides the best access to work, entertainments, services, and facilities, it is also the most densely populated region. To date, the National Capital Region is home to nearly 13 million Filipinos; thus, while employment and lifestyle opportunities are profuse, the disadvantages are also rather formidable: pollution, cramped living conditions, and poor sanita-tion among them. These living conditions have made living on the edges of the NCR, instead of with-in it, a rather enticing proposition.
GOING SOUTH HAS BECOME A BREEZE
A big part of NCR diaspora is moving south. It is also in this direction that most of the country’s prop-erty development in Luzon is happening. More than just homes, commercial establishments, indus-trial parks, and business hubs are cropping up, all with the realization that the South may soon be-come the favored place for Filipinos to take up residence. To meet these projections, infrastructure is keeping up.
The South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) is a highway connecting Metro Manila to the provinces in CA-LABARZON traveling from its northern terminus at the Magallanes Interchange in Makati to its southern end at Santo Tomas, Batangas. Currently, at TR4, the SLEX is building an additional 66.74 kms. to reach from Sto. Tomas to Tayabas-lucena City in Quezon. The project will reduce travel time from Batangas to Lucena from four hours to one, benefitting up to 17,000 travelers daily.
The NLEX- SLEX Connector Road is an 8-kilometer, elevated expressway extending the SLEX northward from the end of segment 10 in C-3 Road, Caloocan City to Sta. Mesa, Manila. It also con-nects to Skyway Stage 3, paralleling the PNR rail track. The project will cut travel time from SLEX to NLEX from two hours to an easy 20 minutes, benefiting 35,000 motorists per day.
The Cavite-laguna Expressway (CALAX) is a 44-kilometer expressway that links CAVITEX
in Kawit, Cavite to SLEX at the Mamplasan Interchange in Biñan, Laguna and is designed to reduce travel time between the two highways by about 45 minutes.
The Apolinario-mabini Super Highway (STAR Tollway) is a 41-kilometer expressway in Batangas. It opens up at the interchange with Pan-philippine Highway and SLEX in Sto. Tomas running south-ward near the Diversion Road till it reaches Batangas City. Opened in 2001, it was connected to SLEX in 2010, shortening travel time between Manila and Batangas.
The Cavite-tagaytay-batangas Expressway (CTBEX) is a 50-kilometer road that traverses Silang, Tagaytay, Amadeo, Mendez, Alfonso, and Magallanes in Cavite, as well as Nasugbu in Batangas.
A number of bypass and diversion roads, ports, and access zones are in the pipeline in Batangas as well. The planned Batangas Access
Zone involves the construction of two-lane access roads, port and docking areas, storage yards, and a suspended train, to provide easy access to the Batangas Regional Food Terminal and oil depots. The 150-hectare Batangas International Port, known as Batangas Pier, provides access to the CALABARZON Region by sea.
These massive roadway projects will allow the country a future where commuting to Metro Manila for work from outside its borders, then commuting back out at the end of the day becomes an easy possibility, offering the Metro’s working population a place to raise their family outside the bustle of the central district.
CAMELLA IN THE SOUTH. BUILDING FINE HOMES IN THE BEST LOCATIONS
Early on, Camella realized that Filipino families will want homes close enough to Metro Manila
to en-joy its economic, leisure, and educational advantages without actually having to live in the country’s hub. While for some, that may be their only option; for others, it may actually be a preference.to date, Camella has 42 property developments in the southern peripheries of Metro Manila, offering dream communities that families can come home to each day. Perfectly situated, these developments are easily accessed by the expressways that have sped up travel time and opened up access to Manila as well as to the other southern cities and provinces.
Batangas, one of the country’s favorite weekend getaways, offers 12 exquisite Camella communities and a vertical village. With two Camella properties each in Batangas City, Lipa City, and Sto.tomas, Batangas is also home to Camella Taal, Camella San Juan, Camella Malvar, and Camella Manors Lipa.
Standing on prime location and a short drive from the STAR Tollway Exit is Camella’s 35-hectare banner project, Camella Lipa. While the community is a sanctuary far enough from the city proper’s bustle, it is close enough to allow residents access to the benefits of a modern day urban hub. Con-venience is the true advantage of this residential location as Camella Lipa sits at the center of city’s commercial and lifestyle complexes.
Camella’s latest offering in Batangas takes real estate investing to new heights with its pre-selling condominium project, Camella Manors Lipa, a 2.8-hectare pine community located at Brgy. Tibig, Lipa City. Only about 80 kilometers from Manila, it is easier for local and foreign tourists to visit the area; thus, an investment in a pre-selling vertical village in Lipa promises rewarding returns in the fu-ture.
BUILDING HOMES FOR THE FILIPINOS NATIONWIDE
Camella is known for creating themed communities and vertical villages across the Philippines. But beyond building well-designed homes blueprinted with expert space planning, the company builds communities where the best memories are made. The villages come with amenities that allow resi-dents to live the life they have always dreamed of and work so hard for. Developments come with clubhouses, swimming pools, basketball courts, playgrounds and landscaped open spaces.
For 45 years, Camella has built over 500,000 homes in 47 provinces and 149 key cities and munici-palities, building homes wherever Filipinos wish to live.
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