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SM, Bacolod joint dev’t of old airport proposed

Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez at press conference Monday.*

A joint development program has been proposed to turn the old Bacolod airport into a new growth center in the southern part of the city, Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said on Monday, April 3.

SM Prime Holdings Inc., the new owner of 50 percent of the 40-hectare old Bacolod airport along Araneta Avenue, has expressed interest in a joint development program with the city government, Benitez said at a press conference.

“With this, we can expect the southern portion of the city to also have developments. If you can see now, everything is in the north. This will bring balance. What kind of development, that’s what is being discussed right now,” the mayor said.

Benitez said 50 percent of the old airport that used to be owed by the Philippine Airlines, was bidded out by the Philippine National Bank last week and the new owner is SM Prime Holdings.

The other half of the old airport is owned by the government, he said.

The city has officially requested the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines for authority to develop the section of the old airport owned by the national government, Benitez said.

Meanwhile, Benitez said the construction of some of four new roads in Bacolod City is being delayed by legal problems.

If these legal obstacles cannot be solved, the city government will initiate expropriation proceedings, he said.

Being constructed and concreted are the Cabug-Handumanan road, the road leading to the sanitary landfill in Brgy Cabug, I.V. Ferrer and Carlos Hilado Highway, and the access road traversing the old airport runway from Palmas del Mar Subdivision to St Vincent’s in Brgy Tangub, Bacolod.*

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