The Developer
Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation (PODC) is owner-developer of the 360-hectare Pueblo de Oro Township. It is a member of the ICCP Group, a group of companies primarily engaged in investment banking and direct investments, property development and services, and is a joint-venture between Regatta Properties, Inc. RPI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Science Park of the Philipp
ines, Inc.(SPPI). The latter is a pioneer and premier developer of industrial estates which include the Light Industry & Science Park of the Philippines (LISP 1 - 173 has.) in Cabuyao, Laguna; LISP II (68 has.) in Calamba, Laguna; LISP III (133 has.) Tomas, Batangas, and the Cebu Light Industrial Park in Mactan (62 has.), Cebu and the Hermosa Ecozone (438 has.) SPPI is owned by prestigious institutional investors like the Investment & Capital Corporation of the Phils. (ICCP), Philippine American Life and General Insurance Company (Philamlife). Mitsui Co. of Japan, Fremont Investors, Inc. (Bechtel Group of Companies), National Development Corporation, Perf Realty Corporation, Panay Electric Company, Inc., Valmora Investment & Management Corp., ICCP Land & Management, Inc. and the ICCP Managers, Inc. BPVI, in turn, was established primarily to undertake equity investments in selected property development projects. Its major stockholders include Philamlife, Bank of the Philippine Islands, lonics Circuits, Inc., ICCP, Bacnotan Consolidated, Valmora Investment & Management Corp. and Phinma Property Holdings, Inc. The Project
The Pueblo de Oro Township project is a 360-hectare master-planned project developed by Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation. Started in the middle of 1995, the project is located in Cagayan de Oro City and complements the City's position as the center of commerce, industry and finance in the booming Northern Mindanao region. The Township is being positioned as the leading residential and mixed-use property development in Cagayan de Oro. It is strategically located in an area designated by the City as the major site for growth and development. It lies along a national road which leads to the airport six kilometers away and is only five kilometers from the City center. Louis Berger International, Inc. (LBII), a renowned expert in regional and urban planning with projects worldwide, did the master plan. In the Philippines, LBII is noted to have prepared the master plans for, among others, the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Corridor and the SOCSARGEN growth area, enabling it to accumulate substantial expertise in the region. Pueblo de Oro makes available a comprehensive product mix that addresses the needs of a growing and dynamic consumer market for quality residential facilities, ranging from exclusive residential villages for the high-end market, to value-packed middle income housing packages and affordable value-packed housing units. The residential subdivisions are carefully integrated with the Pueblo Business Park, a commercial center and business district with SM City-CDO as a main locator, institutional facilities such as Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) and places of worship (a two-hectare site is reserved for a Catholic church), and a golf and country club featuring a world-class championship golf course. In keeping with the philosophy of the project proponents, the master plan ensures that all environmental concerns are scrupulously addressed.
