THE idea of living in a city within a city is lit. Who wouldn’t love that?
In Davao Region, this concept is becoming a reality as various developers are building several hectarage of township projects.
A township is a one-stop, integrated lifestyle and business development solution. In it, residents need not go outside the area for school, leisure and work as all daily requirements are provided next to one’s door-step. Living in a township gifts residents with smooth connectivity and exclusivity.
Here is the list of township projects around Davao Region:
Davao Park District
The “live-work-play-learn” concept will enter Davao City as property giant Megaworld is developing its first township development in Mindanao, the Davao Park District.
The P15-billion township project is located on a 11-hectare property along the S.P. Dakudao Loop in Lanang, Davao City which used to be the Lanang Golf and Country Club.
The township has office towers, feature themed residential condominiums by Suntrust, Lanang Premiere Doctors Hospital, a lifestyle mall, commercial and retail strips, and a school.
Ciudades Business Park
Now rising is Ciudades, a 200-hectare master planned community project of Torre Lorenzo Development Corporation.
Located in Mandug, Davao City, the project is indeed set in a natural environment. It aims to bring modern life to the area by providing residential developments, work spaces, commercial areas, leisure and educated institutions in one township community.
It will house the Ciudades Business Park, a 20-hectare agro-industrial project offering industrial lot sizes ranging from 875 sqm to 4145 sqm making it an ideal space for BPOs and other offices.
For the residential component of the project, Sta. Lucia Land Inc. will be building Las Palmas Verdes.
Ciudades is envisioned to be a mini-city with subdivisions, as well as malls, and a school.
Hijo Industrial Estates
Just last June, Hijo Industrial Estates broke ground for its 760-hectare township development in Barangay Madaum, Tagum City in Davao del Norte.
The company earmarked P1 billion for the development of the township alone. The project raises the ante for township development as it not only will have a town center at the core, which is envisioned to be the next biggest hub for business, commercial, and retail activities next to the central business district of Tagum, it will also include a satellite government center for convenient access to government services.
A total of 320 hectares of the development is devoted to leisure and tourism that includes a 60-hectare forest, a natural habitat for wild local flora and fauna including Philippine hardwood species, and a four-kilometer long fine sand shoreline, mangroves, and creeks and streams.
Other components include residential estates, Information Communication Technology area and a port through a joint business venture between Hijo Resources Corporation and the International Container Terminal Services Inc.
Plantacion Residences
Developer Santos Land Development Corporation has expanded its presence beyond Davao City as it launches on October 10 its first out-of-town township project in Makilala, North Cotabato.
The project will rise within a 19-hectare property which will be divided into two components, the nine-hectare subdivision and the 10-hectare commercial component.
The land development of the Makilala project is 100 percent complete.
Agriya
Agriya, a modern agricultural metropolis (agropolis) project in Panabo City by Damosa Land, Inc., which is pegged to be around P1 billion, is an 88-hectare mixed-use township development to be comprised of residential, commercial, tourism, and institutional establishments.
Included in the first phase of the development is the construction of the University of the Philippines Professional School for Agriculture and the Environment.
Aside from the area of the school, the first phase will also concentrate on the construction of the residential development and small commercial establishments that will cater to the school and the rest of the metro subdivision.
The project will also anchor on the agri-tourism component. (ASP)