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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, January 30, 2017
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BACOLOD City – SM Prime Holdings, Inc. might get on board a plan to improve the Manokan Country at the Reclamation Area.
Asked by the press if SM Prime plans to develop the string of chicken barbecue stalls near SM City-Bacolod, Hans Sy said, “It is not to redevelop it. It’s really to show what can be done, what can be enhanced.”
Sy said it could be similar to SM Prime’s joint venture with Dasmariñas, Cavite, for a market place that was improved to “ensure everything is done very well and it did not cause any traffic and all of those things.”
As for the Manokan Country, the son of SM Prime owner Henry Sy Sr. said it can be improved by “adding more parking spaces.”
Hans Sy admitted that he has yet to consult the city government, particularly Mayor Evelio Leonardia, about the plan.
The younger Sy was here on Saturday to receive the recognitions the city government conferred to his father: the “Adopted Son of the City of Bacolod” and the “Honorary Mayor of the City of Bacolod.”
That day the city was also celebrating the Chinese New Year.
During the Puentevella administration, SM Prime offered to buy a 1.3-hectare property in Barangay 12 where the Manokan Country is located for P20,500 per square meter.
But the purchase was not materialized.
The city government had to settle several legal issues before it could sell the property, while several Barangay 12 residents and Manokan Country stall owners were opposed to the proposal./PN
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