Mindanao Times

CLI to invest P10-B in 3 projects in ‘20

- BY CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCO

CEBU Landmaster­s Inc. (CLI) is investing about P10 billion for its three projects in the city next year, its top official said yesterday.

At the inaugurati­on of the showroom of the Paragon Davao, Jose Franco B. Soberano, Jose Franco B. Soberano, CLI executive vice president and chief operations officer, said the money will be used for the developmen­ts of the Paragon Davao, the Davao Global Township (DGT) and the Lyceum of the Philippine­s University (LPU) township.

Both the Paragon DGT are the partnershi­p of the company with the landed YHES Inc., the company of one of the biggest property owner clans in the city, the Huang-Villa AbrillaTan. Their first partnershi­p was MesaTierra Garden Residences, also a condominiu­m project.

On the Paragon Davao, the company is putting up its second of the seven towers after selling about 90% of the 554-unit first tower, or about P2 billion, said Soberano.

At the 25-hectare DGT, the company is investing in the developmen­t of the first phase that will include setting up access roads and a retail component which will offer a “unique retail experience (that is) very homegrown, meaning very upscale but affordable by all,” he said, adding that the component will be modeled after a mall in Los Angeles, USA which is “hayahay (comfortabl­e).”

Another part of the first phase developmen­t of the DGT, which used

to be a golf course, will also include a civic center whose designer will be a top architect that will make the project “a cultural museum for Davao.”

Soberano also told TIMES part of the money will also be used in the developmen­t of another access road and the first residentia­l tower of the two-tower LPU township.

Saying the company has enjoyed fast takeup of its projects, Soberano said that its experience in real estate developmen­t as well as in its partnershi­p with the YHES Inc. has contribute­d to its better than expected revenue.

“Our locations are best in class locations and future proof,” he said, explaining that the locations are marketable as they are closer to places of work and schools.

 ?? BING GONZALES ?? YHES Inc. president Frederick Yuson shows the design of the proposed project along the Times Beach in an interview during the opening of showroom of Paragon Davao, a P2.6 billion mixed-use developmen­t project.
BING GONZALES YHES Inc. president Frederick Yuson shows the design of the proposed project along the Times Beach in an interview during the opening of showroom of Paragon Davao, a P2.6 billion mixed-use developmen­t project.

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