Friday, December 15, 2006 Zambo to earn P4.2-M as dry market re-opens By Bong Garcia
THE City of Zamboanga stands to earn an estimated amount of P12 million, following the re-opening next week of a dry market, at the Sta. Cruz Commercial Complex, where the construction of the building to house the vendors that started in July, this year, has been completed.
The re-opening of the P12-million Bagsakan Center was announced by City Administrator Antonio Orendain Jr. on Thursday, when he said that the city government will earn as much as P4.2 million annually in terms of space rentals at P25 per day from the bagsakan center alone.
He said the city government would earn as much as P4.2 million annually in terms of space rentals at P25 a day from the bagsakan center alone.
Vegetable and fruit vendors, as well as the buying public, will no longer be exposed to the elements while in the market to either sell or buy goods.
The place was named Bagsakan Center since it is the designated as unloading point of farmers’ produce, like vegetables and fruits, direct from the farms.
Orendain said they have raffled off last Tuesday afternoon, at least, 459 stalls at the Bagsakan Center to the occupants, including some farmers, who, in the past, make use of the space through makeshift stalls.
He said it includes 30 snack counters and barbecue stands to cater to stall occupants as well as the market-goers.
Each of the stalls are two-by-two and one-half meters wide where vegetable and fruit vendors can display and sell their goods.
“It is complete with corresponding alleys so that the buying public could crisscross from one place to the other,” Orendain said.
