MINERVA BC NEWMAN
CEBU CITY – Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI), a leading developer in VisMin donated two medium-rise condo buildings valued altogether at P215 million for the informal settlers in Cebu City and in Mandaue City as part of its commitment to provide quality and sustainable in-city vertical socialized housing.
“To us, this is the most meaningful project. We are now starting a project that will become a model. It will become a standard. We hope this will be emulated not just by us but also by other developers,” CLI chairman and chief executive officer Jose Soberano III said during the turnover and groundbreaking events.
Soberano explained that CLI gives more regardless of the market it serves, he highlighted that CLI not only build homes, it builds sustainable communities and it wants to give decent homes to the marginalized because they deserve nothing less.
According to CLI that Walk-Up Sugbo 1 is a joint collaboration of Cebu Landmasters, Inc., the Cebu City Government and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) designed to provide quality transition housing for informal settlers living in danger zones.
The Walk-up Cebu 1 is located
on a 1,350 sqm property in Barangay Lorega-San Miguel that was completed in
less than one year in 2021 with 100 condo units soon to be homes to over 100
beneficiary families who were living in danger areas with more than 60 percent
coming from Barangay Lorega, Cebu City.
These families will be resettled
to the units on the ground floor to the fifth floor of Walk Up Sugbo 1. Each
unit has a floor area of 25 sqm. or more than the 18 sqm. required for
socialized housing units with proper ventilation with sun baffles mounted on
units with balconies.
The building features a ground
floor chapel, retail spaces for rent, parking area and a Livelihood Training
and Multi-Purpose Hall donated by Cebu Landmasters Foundation.
It also has PWD-friendly ramps
leading to the fifth floor for the elderly and differently-abled residents.
Solar panels will provide electricity for common areas like hallways, stairways
and around the property, CLI bared.
Cebu Landmasters’ property
management arm CLIPM will also lend its expertise to train Cebu City’s property
management to efficiently manage Walk-Up Sugbo 1. The building will also be provided with a
sewage treatment plant to ensure proper solid waste management.
The Tipolo Residences in Mandaue City
With the groundbreaking event on July 1, construction of the 90-unit tower 4 of the Tipolo Residences, also a mid-rise socialized housing building in Mandaue City will soon begin.
The building is intended for the victims of the 2019 fire in Tipolo, Mandaue City that are temporarily housed inside the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) and for the informal settlers living dangerously along the city’s rivers and creeks.
CLI applies active and passive green design features to both projects. All units are situated to receive sufficient amount of daylight, reducing energy use. In addition, the ground floor units and common area spaces are lifted to allow cross ventilation and a large self-watering green wall is also integrated to provide cooling.
Both medium-rise housing projects in Cebu City and Mandaue City are CLI’s socialized housing compliance in partnership with DHSUD to make available affordable and decent housing and basic services to underprivileged and homeless settlers.
The CLI and Cebu Landmasters Foundation teams worked closely with the local governments of Cebu City and Mandaue City in the social preparation process and gave recommendations on the rental rate, tenure, house rules, guidelines, and property management. (Photos: CLI FB)
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