3 Baguio properties offered for PPP

BAGUIO City is willing to offer three cityowned properties for private-public partnership (PPP) to maximize their potentials of generating additional resources for the city in a bid to add more attraction for residents and tourists.

Mayor Mauricio Domogan revealed the city-owned properties which could be offered for PPP include the old site of the city auditorium towards the tennis court in Burnham Park, the Diplomat Hotel property which was ceded to the local government by the office of the President and the Asin swimming pool and hot spring resort in Nangalisan, Tuba, Benguet.

“We are proud to announce the local government never acquired a loan and has no outstanding loan to date because we banked on the judi- cious use of its available resources to achieve its state of development that is now being currently enjoyed by the residents and visitors. We do not want to tie up our available resources just to be able to acquire a loan but what we need is for the aggressive implementation of the PPP,” Domogan stressed.

Domogan is proposing the put up of a multi-level pay parking at the old auditorium, to help address the city’s parking woes aside from utilizing the said structure for green building purposes that will accommodate certain recreational establishments at the top.

For the Diplomat Hotel, he claimed development will be undertaken pursuant to the deed of conveyance signed by the Presidential Management Staff

(PMS) to the local government to be developed as a retreat and recreation center to provide visitors with added attractions that they must see while enjoying their well deserved break in the city.

Domogan said the city-owned Asin swimming pools and hot spring resort must also be developed to be at par with the existing resorts in the area and to maximize its potentials in attracting tourists to visit the place for recreational purposes.