CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- If there’s one place you should rather be, it would be the newly inaugurated Fiesta Communities in Mabalacat where every day is as festive as its name and a community that is happy all the time with all the friendly neighbors and smiling faces.

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Sprawling in large, flood-free and majestically developed hectares of land, Fiesta Communities-Manalacat is the third of four viable housing projects in Olongapo City, Tarlac and in this province launched two years ago by principal developer Hausland led by its amiable and realtor leader CEO Wilfredo Tan and co-owner Mariano Tan.

“Fiesta Communities is all about good and affordable living. Our very name speaks for it: F for family; I for investment; E for environment; S for shelter; T for technology; and A for affordability. Home makers and house hunters will definitely find Fiesta Communities a haven for the family and a good investment,” Willy Tan said.

He said the project is aimed for the growing housing sector in nearby Clark Freeport Zone which allows folks working there and minimum wage earners to own their homes at packages that don’t hurt the budget.

Tan narrated how nearly 400 members of the Mabalacat Government Employees Association could now realize their dreams of house ownership for as low as P3,000 a month.

“With added discounts and perks, they would be able to own their houses now on a two hectare area ‘unloaded’ by the Santos Ventura Hocorma Foundation. Mayor Marino Morales and I made arrangements with the municipal government to see to it that municipal employees, under their Handog Pabahay program get that rare opportunity, because that is what Fiesta Communities is all about,” he said.

Mayor Marino Morales was all too thankful and appreciative of Tan’s move and said that the launching of Fiesta Communities there is a big step in preparing for the first class municipality’s goal of cityhood by next year.

“I am glad we have a partner like Fiesta Communities. We are expecting an influx of investments as well as migrants here and the need for housing has just been addressed by them. It’s a big step towards our dream of building a nearby central business district,” Morales told Sun.Star Pampanga.

Of course, housing czar and Vice-President Noli De Castro was praises for Tan and Fiesta Communities.

“We have a backlog of about three million houses nationwide. But since right now, as I understand, there is already an initial 500 housing units built here in Fiesta Communities-Mabalacat. If Willy (Tan) could build one million more, then we are just looking at two million affordable houses to build,” De Castro said.

To make the community more suitable for easy living, the officials broke ground for a school and inaugurated a chapel right beside the modest gate along the main road which, like all its wide streets were named after Filipino values like Masunurin, Makabayan and Masipag.

With the keys turned over by De Castro himself to the first house owners, the doors opened for this happy haven that is Fiesta Communities-Mabalacat.