Street of Festive Walk Brings Out the Best of Iloilo

The ”al fresco” dining and shopping lifestyle of Ilonggos will about to elevate with the anticipated opening of the Street of Festive Walk, a 1-kilometer commercial strip of the best and classy bistros, restaurants, cafes, retails shops and boutiques in Iloilo Business Park. With a tentative opening very soon next year, this will become one of the most sought-after destinations in Iloilo Business Park as part of the vibrant 72-hectare mixed-used development community, a modern township for business and leisure. By the name itself, the Street of Festive Walk was culturally-inspired by the “festive” energy of Iloilo’s world-famous Dinagyang Festival, a celebration of revelry, merriment and unity. During the Dinagyang Festival every January, the major streets of Iloilo City proper are closed for public transportations and vehicles allowing onlookers and visitors to take a walk, join the merry-making, shop for local products displayed on the side of the streets and feast among the popular delicacies and local bistros that served distinct Ilonggo food set to please the palate. The Street of Festive Walk is envisioned as more than just a destination for food lovers and shoppers, it is culturally-uplifting replication, a classy version of the merriment, top-notch higher vision of what makes Iloilo a festive city and the Ilonggos as “zest of life” lovers. The best thing is: Ilonggos and visitors will soon enjoy the strolling every day right in the very heart of Iloilo Business Park.

The Street of Festive Walk and the whole township itself, is a grandiose re-package of a highly-elevated globalized and passionate Ilonggo culture for the world to see.   

Iloilo Business Park is located at the old Iloilo Airport in Mandurriao, Iloilo City. Visit us online at www.iloilobusinesspark.ph.

IBP’s Emerging Lifestyle, Posh Condo Units and Commercial Lots

   

The 80% complete Iloilo Convention Center, Iloilo's most modern convention venue (Photo by Marx de Silva)

Seriously taking the infrastructure developments and influx of investments in Iloilo City these days would give us a glimpse of the great things to come in the heart of Western Visayas. Iloilo Business Park (IBP), the 72-hectare old airport site in Mandurriao district was swiftly transformed into a mixed-used development community, slowly taking shape as the future epicenter of business, lifestyle and leisure zone. Megaworld Corporation, the Philippines' leading real estate developer and township builder set its new plan in Iloilo by opening a gateway of developments through IBP.

(From the top) Construction photo updates of Festive Walk Mall and Street of Festive Walk, soon to be the city's most high-end shopping and leisure destination (Photos by Marx de Silva)

Spread across the township are leisure, residential and lifestyle destinations that would bring vital life to Iloilo City with an upcoming high-end mall, shopping and dining avenue, a modern convention center, two international hotels, BPO buildings and office towers. Fulfilling their "success formula" for their township-building dream which is "Live-Work-Play-Learn" for 26 years, Megaworld launches their own residential towers in IBP. Commercial lots as part of the township's Boutique Hotel and Commercial District are also open for business ventures among investors.

(From the top) BPO Building One Global Center is presently the office and operation site of BPO company Transcom, almost 40% construction photo update of international hotel - Courtyard by Marriot and the newly-opened Richmonde Hotel Iloilo (Photos by Marx de Silva and Ronelo Ladiao) 

One Madison Place, the 3-tower, 10-storey condominium promotes a luxurious lifestyle with stunning amenities. Lafayette Park Square, a scenic resemblance of French and Spanish architectural design will enthrall condo buyers with its high-end residential units and amenities. The Palladium is the epitome of a true high-life, the highest elevated condominium tower in the region with 22 floors, 4 sky gardens, infinity pool and loft units. These elegant residential towers offers highly-conceptualized and premier condominium units from studio, executive studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and The Palladium’s exclusive limited offering – the classy Loft Units in its topmost Penthouse level. The penultimate lifestyle concept of Megaworld's condominium units and towers not only comes in its physical design but on its life-encompassing link to the whole township and its nearby conveniences. Residents can enjoy shopping, dining, embracing nature and working in multinational companies with a few steps away.

The Boutique Hotels and Commercial District is a visionary part of the township. Front-lined by Iloilo Convention Center and two international hotels - Richmonde Hotel Iloilo and Courtyard by Marriot, premier commercial lots are available to pave way for exciting business ventures among potential investors and companies. Retail shops, boutiques, offices and restaurants will soon emerge in the future in this area to create more than a high-life experience but a vibrant community where business and lifestyle converge beautifully.

Either you live for pleasure or venture for business, invest your dream right in the very heart of IBP. Be a part of the high-life that's swiftly taking emerging. Call us at (033) 330-3462-65 or visit us in our showroom at the ground level of Richmonde Tower, 8 Enterprise Road, Iloilo Business Park, Mandurriao, Iloilo City. For online, visit us at www.iloilobusinesspark.ph.

From Airport to Bustling Township, Megaworld Changes the Ilonggo life

The old Iloilo Airport in Mandurriao, Iloilo City (photo by JunJun Mendoza)

Pelagia Longno remember how she used to say “goodbye” to her husband, Jonathan Longno, a seaman OFW before leaving for his flight to Manila at the Iloilo Airport 15 years ago. That very moment left a pinch in her heart. Like the Longno couple and other Ilonggo OFWs, venturing professionally to look for high-paying jobs in other countries to provide a better future for their family, they are doing a great sacrifice.

(Photo by Gettyimages.com)

A Place of Sentiments and Dreams

According to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) records in 2014,there are more than 60,901 OFWs coming from the Province of Iloilo out of the estimated 187,971 OFWs throughout Western Visayas leaving to work in other countries. Iloilo City has the biggest number of OFWs with 28,890 who send large amount of remittances and taxes that helps our economy. For nearly 8 decades, the old Iloilo Airport in Mandurriao district served as the airline domestic entry point for Iloilo and other neighboring provinces.  For most OFWS and their families, this airport has been a part of their lives. It leaves a sentimental spot, a place where they used to say their precious “goodbyes” to their loved ones and create bittersweet memories before leaving each other for the sake a better life.

Since its operation in the 1930s, the old Iloilo Airport in Mandurriao District ended its operation in 2005. It was replaced by a much-bigger and modern Iloilo International Airport in the nearby municipality of Cabatuan in Iloilo. After its closure, the old airport property had its untimely slumber – the place became sleepy and the noise of the airplanes died down. The Iloilo City Government formulated a plan to revive the area into a possible commercial and residential complex ushering an extension of the city’s unstoppable progress. Megaworld Corporation, the country’s leading real estate and township developer saw the property’s investment potential. In 2007, they successfully acquired the 72-hectare old airport property. Soon, Megaworld unveiled their visionary plan of transforming the property into one of their biggest township projects, their most ambitious venture outside of Luzon with a total of P35 billion investment – the Iloilo Business Park.

Iloilo Business Park's Megaworld Boulevard (Photo by Marx de Silva)

Relentless Developments

“Iloilo Business Park is the city’s new central business district, a most welcome addition to the city’s urban development landscape that will help realize the city’s vision of becoming a premier city,” says Jose Ronie Penalosa, Iloilo City Planning and Development Coordinator. He believes that Iloilo Business Park is a “strategic location, a valuable connectivity and carefully planned mixed-use development that strongly supported by an eco-friendly network of walk-able green urban spaces, bikeways and public transport-oriented corridors that makes it an excellent place to live, work and play in.” The township perceived to be the most high-end infrastructure and business-related project in Iloilo City since it features significant developments that would pave way for strong investments, commercial and employment opportunities.

Megaworld’s 72-hectare master-planned township was carefully envisioned to unlock Iloilo City’s global potential with the opening of Iloilo Convention Center equipped with a massive seating capacity of 3,700 audiences where this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) side events are set to take place. The township is teeming with commercial investments where a lifestyle mall – the Festive Walk Mall, a mall annex and the long-stretching 1 kilometer Street of Festive Walk, a shop-and-dine avenue are preparing to rise very soon. The Information Technology – Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry is destined for a global boost with the opening of BPO office buildings where multinational companies like StarTek, Reed Elsevier, Transcom and many others will find a new home, giving local graduates and professionals the most competitive employment opportunities.  Comprising the Boutique Hotel and Commercial District, international hotels such as the 10-storey Richmonde Hotel Iloilo designed by Getty’s, the world’s most prestigious hotel interior designer, and the first of its kind hotel in the country from the Marriot group - the Courtyard by Marriot, are both looking forward to provide world-class hotel accommodation for visitors and investors.

(From the top) Two Global Center - BPO Company StarTek office and operation site, a local call center agent, Megaworld Boulevard with the construction site of Festive Walk Mall and One Global Center - BPO Company Transcom office and operation site (Photos by Marx de Silva and Ronelo Ladiao) 

Life-changing Jobs

“I’m lucky enough to be able to have my OJT (on the job training) in one the best call centers in Iloilo Business Park. The opportunity provided young people with a better-paying job. Young professionals like me are hoping to stay and get employed locally rather than to leave our city,” says 20-year-old James Tan, a graduating IT professional from a provincial state university. Tan is one of the competitive young professionals who is now taking part, and will soon benefit from the expected 30,000 job openings foreseen by Megaworld when most of their BPO buildings will open in full swing for the next 10 years. The continued infrastructure developments within the area have benefited local engineers and construction workers.  It includes 30-year-old Joemar Villanueva who is working full-time to complete the Festive Walk Mall, the city’s next shppping center. Villanueva hopes to work in the mall as utility staff with his friends soon after the construction of the mall is complete. Iloilo Business Park is currently providing significant employment opportunities to local workers who are all looking forward to benefit from its existence.   

Richmonde Hotel Iloilo and Two Global Center (Photos by Ronelo Ladiao)

Significant Changes

With Iloilo Business Park’s larger-than-life significant relation to Iloilo City’s urban development, Peňalosa of the Iloilo City Planning and Development Office has further expressed his thoughts: “Hosting the city’s taller and modern buildings, IBP is going to be a showcase of contemporary Philippine architecture and urban design that is executed in ways at effectively complementing the old world charm and historic beauty of the city’s other districts.” With the township’s promising concept of viability for future businesses, tourism industry and commercial sector, it can usher a new age of economic renaissance for Iloilo City, giving the locals the chance to experience how their vibrant city will grow and prosper as one of today’s most livable cities in the world. For visitors and investors who will be looking for the best place to travel or to relax can fully appreciate their stay in Iloilo as they can see the past being revived and embed in the present. Investments will soon start to pour in and serve as seeds to lay the groundwork for a long-term, sustainable developments and progress. Iloilo City equates in its people’s heart the value of treasuring the past and keeping it all alive, a true inspiration to build a better future.

True progress transcends more than just the physical infrastructure development of a certain city or locality. If its locals are experiencing better and promising opportunities that could raise their standard of living, such change will socially and economically indicate significant elevation, a higher step to sustain competitive progress. In its vision to shape the future Ilonggo lifestyle, Megaworld is sharing their dreams to put  Iloilo City in the forefront of swift developments.

On a sunny afternoon, Pelagia was passing by the very site where the old Iloilo airport was once located. She can’t it help but put a smile in her face, and most of the time, she feels enthusiastic to look ahead in the future. In this very site, a new dream destination – Iloilo Business Park will vibrantly emerge in this city where her retiring OFW husband Jonathan will be coming home soon. One of her two grown-up sons is already an employee working in the township’s BPO company – Reed Elsevier. She’s hoping to spend quality time with her family after her early retirement. Her beautiful city, Iloilo is now teeming with better opportunities for everyone willing to stay home and chase their dreams.

She thought that maybe there will be no more “goodbyes” but a heartfelt “hello” for a bright future and a possible investment opportunity for their family. Well, buying a condominium unit might be a good start of her new life in this bustling township where memories of love was once built. (Ronelo Sanchez Ladiao)

Are You Looking for a Condo? You Might Be One of Them

Are you looking forward to live in a condominium? Check out these facts, you might be the one who deserves the prime lifestyle at Iloilo Business Park...

Retirees for Serene Lifestyle
Condominiums are very popular among retirees, including those who are looking to downsize from their previous homes. A condominium community may offer many opportunities to socialize, and certain developments offer services that cater specifically to retirees and seniors. In addition, many retirees enjoy traveling, and the reduced maintenance associated with living in a condominium is attractive. Looking for serene lifestyle mix with pleasure? A condo unit might be an answer for your dreams.

Frequent Travelers’ ideal abode
A condominium may be appropriate for the frequent traveler for whom keeping up with routine maintenance would be a challenge. Additionally, a condominium unit owner may feel safer leaving the unit unattended for frequent or extended periods of time knowing that neighbors are present. Looking for a place of your own even if you’re frequently travelling? A condo unit is something really you need.

Young Professionals and Graduate Students’ life-in-style
Young professionals and graduate students may be interested in condominiums that are located close to work or school. Condominium ownership may also be attractive due to social opportunities, the proximity to urban conveniences, and because condominiums are sometimes cheaper than a single-family home, while still offering plenty of space. Mixing university life with pleasure and luxury? A condominium will complete your flexible lifestyle.

Young Couples’ love nest

A condominium can be an ideal starter home for young couples. Like other condo owners, couples may find the social opportunities attractive and may enjoy the community facilities offered by the development. Young couples who are not planning or not yet ready to start a family may find the size and layout of a condominium unit to be more practical than that of a house. Starting up a family life in practical and exciting perspective? A condominium will make your love story flourish.

The LIFE you desire…

Megaworld - Iloilo Business Park, the 72-hectare life-stretching township of unlimited pleasure and great possibilities located in Mandurriao District, Iloilo City, is your perfect home in the future. Embrace the vision, the power and prestige by being part of this bustling community of class and luxury. It offers gorgeously-conceptualized condominium units located in top-notch residential towers such as The Palladium, Lafayette Park Square and One Madison Place. Call us to fulfill your desire for a great lifestyle call us at 330-3462-65, 0928-353589451 and 0917-3524888. Visit our showroom at the ground level of Richmonde Tower, Iloilo Business Park, Mandurriao, Iloilo City or check us online at www.iloilobusinesspark.ph. 

Shop, Dine, Live, Work in Limitless Passion at Iloilo Business Park

There’s a brand new lifestyle that gives you the rush, the feeling to be at the top and the sight of luxury that goes beyond your expectations. Just shop, dine, work, make business and live a relaxing life in this upscale urban township – the Iloilo Business Park located in the 72 hectare old airport property in Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

Find a highly-competitive corporate job in the township’s multinational Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) companies that operates in the township’s modern BPO buildings. Secure a rewarding employment opportunity that harnesses your world-class potential in communication and other professional skills, elevates your confidence and gives your the visionary perspective of a real corporate life. Finding a great job is easy as visiting the township, looking around and finding out what fits your personal skills to be in touch with the world, and reward yourself with a great career. BPO buildings One Global Center and Two Global Center are the new homes of call center companies Transcom and StarTek. Reed Elsevier operates at the third floor of Richmonde Tower. One Techno Place and Two Techno Place are being constructed and will soon open with more job opportunities for highly-competitive Ilonggo professionals.

Live exclusively and experience pure condominium luxury with high-end residential towers offered by One Madison Place, an upcoming 3-tower condo with a more upscale-chic lifestyle perspective; Lafayette Park Square is classic-vintage-style tower that gives you a glimpse of French and Spanish architectural design and equally offers elegant amenities, and The Palladium envisaged as the tallest tower in the region attractive for its 4 multi-level sky gardens, penthouse-level ultra-classy loft units, infinity pool and amenities that expresses incomparable luxury. Dreaming to own a condo unit in a high-end township that gives you access to an excellent lifestyle? Now’s your chance to choose and invest something great.

On a lazy day or after work, shop in limitless pleasure with Megaworld’s very own lifestyle leisure center – the Festive Walk Mall. This first-class landmark shopping center is just a few steps away from the township’s residential towers and BPO buildings where residents can spend their day relaxing. Fulfill your shopaholic-craving, your eye for fashion, entertainment and cuisine trek in the mall’s high-end boutiques, retails shops, international brands and bistros. Are you a movie lover? the mall has 8 high-tech cinemas to entertain you and your loved one with passionate cinematic experience.

Go classy and pamper your palate, rediscover the township’s Street of Festive Walk, a one kilometer dining and culinary strip, the longest in the country to showcase high-end restaurants, bistros and pubs covered in flickering lights. It is a pleasurable destination where food lovers fill their hearts with some of the world’s most expensive cuisines and classy dining experience all in one unforgetable visit.

Pleasure, leisure and business converge perfectly with two of the most-anticipated international hotels in the township – Richmonde Hotel Iloilo and Courtyard by Marriot. Meet up with your clients and guests while being pampered in a classy ambiance where first-class hospitality, comfort and gracious service gives you the best time of your life.

Whatever you aspire and look forward to experience, Iloilo Business Park is more than just a lifestyle business township, it is where the best of life mixed with the passion of Iloilo’s cultural past, a vibrant perspective of leisure and tourism that creates a new story to tell – the heartfelt experience for classy, grandeur and memorable often starts to define the Ilonggo lifestyle most of us are dreaming to see and explore. Iloilo City have what it takes to bring leisure and pleasure to a higher level with Iloilo Business Park.

Explore the brightest and most promising township in Western Visayas now. For exciting information, call us at (033) 330-3462, check us onlinehttp://www.iloilobusinesspark.ph or visit our Showroom at the upper ground floor of Richmonde Tower, 8 Enterprise Road, Iloilo Business Park, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

4 Ways to Make Use of Your Condo Space

Sometimes, Condo living is perceived as a fast-paced lifestyle suited for people who are fitting themselves in a busy metropolis ambiance. More often, itis viewed as living a small, boxed-type and limited space. But there’s more exciting reasons to live in a condominium because with sheer ingenuity and creative touch, you will be able to transform your space into place of pleasure.
Let’s say you own an executive studio, a one or two bedroom condominium unit, the usual classification of condo units, making the most of your space is the best thing you can do to truly own the place. Bottomline, here are good suggestions that you can do to maximize your space with your condo unutand still feel fantastic doing it:

1. Versatility is the key. Use convertible and multi-functional furniture such as comfy couch during the day that transforms into a bed or a table that can be made into a study table or conference table in the evening.

2. Size does matter. In terms of color preference or size of ornaments and furniture, getting something small and convenient can save space. For example, choosing a small frame to be hanged in the wall, lampshade that emits the same amount of light around the area but smaller in size.

3. Sometimes, it’s not about the size of the space but how you create projections like hanging a mirror near your closet, in your lounge area or dining area. This will create an illusion of bigger space.

4. Lastly, get rid of the trash to make room for the treasures. Let the things that are important take center stage because what really matters is, we give space for the things that makes us happy.

Design your own condo, rediscover your passion for interior designing, get a condo now at Iloilo Business Park. For more information, call us at (033) 330-3462, visit us online at www.iloilobusinesspark.ph or see our showroom located at the upper ground floor of Richmonde Tower, 8 Enterprise Road, Iloilo Business Park, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.

Iloilo Business Park: Retirement Haven

When the Philippine Retirement Authority was established in 1985, it aimed to make the global market recognize the Philippines as the retirement haven of choice. But this plan was designed specifically to target foreign investors, overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and balikbayans (Filipinos who acquired citizenship in their host countries and are planning to go back to the Philippines for vacation or long-term stay), and expatriates already living in the country for the love of immersing with local culture and lifestyle.  

Since real estate is a booming business and assurance for long-term return of investment (ROI), retirees who are usually taking permanent career halt between the ages of 60 and 70, envisioning the Philippines as a retirement destination because of its tourism potential, low-cost of living, economic rise and flourishing real estate industry is a wise lifetime plan. Professionals either OFWs, foreigners or even local employees are saving money and resources for years or even decades to prepare for their retirement plan.  In fact, for grandparents who are coming to the Philippines after retiring from their career abroad can rekindle memories and reunite with their family and their grandchildren for a new life ahead.  Condominium buying is one of the best choices to make their retirement plan moving. It is also the first step in ensuring to find and own a space within high-life, stress-free conducive location. There are two choices for retirees in pursuing their retirement plan through real estate: cash sale or term sale. For those who already saved enough money, it’s better to choose cash sale to avail hefty discount and benefits upon paying cash on a certain property or residential unit. For retirees planning to retire in the future, long term payment or term sale is a wise option. Both way, it all comes down to budget and what suits them better.  

Let’s say you heard about the booming economy and flourishing tourism, business and investment potentials of Iloilo City, the biggest metropolis in Western Visayas in the Philippines, the next thing that comes in your mind is visit the place, look for a chance to settle in or experience the city’s charming culture, or simply to retire for permanently. Megaworld, the Philippines’ most visionary and dynamic condominium developer launched Iloilo Business Park (IBP) in 2013. By far it is the biggest mixed-use development township in the country boasting with 72-hectare property set to become a commercial, tourism and business central hub in the future at Mandurriao, Iloilo City. Offering a home that exudes extraordinary comfort, convenience and lifestyle, IBP’s luxurious condominium Lafayette Park Square and the 3-tower One Madison Place are capturing the affinity and interest of retirees. Various choices such as executive studio, one bedroom and two bedroom residential units with attractive amenities for a classy lifestyle continue to allure condo buyers. Of course, residential units are available for two buying options: cash sale and term sale that comes with flexible payment terms.  But what’s priceless about IBP’s condominium tower is: once a retiree own a residential unit, it feels like he or she can own the whole highly-urbane prime location, and exclusively live and experience the stress-free, vibrant lifestyle within the country’s most promising township – close to Iloilo City and its cultural-tourism charm.

So, are you excited for your life-changing, life-in-style retirement plan by owning a space at Megaworld’s Iloilo Business Park? Make it happen soon!

For more information, call us at (033) 330-3462, visit us online at www.iloilobusinesspark.ph or see our showroom located at the upper ground floor of Richmonde Tower, 8 Enterprise Road, Iloilo Business Park, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.