MAKATI CITY, Jan. 13 (PIA) -- The local government completed a number of vital infrastructure projects aimed to enhance its efficiency and effectiveness in serving the residents, the business community, workers, visitors, and other stakeholders.
Among these are the new City Hall Multi-Parking Building that now houses frontline service offices and 380 parking slots, new school buildings and sports complexes.
In a statement, Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin S. Binay said the city government has continually prioritized infrastructural developments to meet the growing needs of the city’s clients and constituents. “Despite our limited land area, we have continued to find ways to put up additional infrastructures that not only improve access to basic services and bring government closer to the people, but also enhance the city’s imageability, which urban planners of today cite as a measure of success in the design of cities around the world,” the mayor said.
Completed last March 2013, the 12-storey with roofdeck Makati City Hall Multi-Parking Building now houses the Business Permits Office, License Division, Makati Action Center, Makati Drug Abuse Council, Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs, Makati Turismo, Information and Community Relations Department, Department of Environmental Services, Museum and Cultural Affairs Office, and other offices.
The building’s second to sixth floors hold parking spaces that can accommodate up to 380 vehicles. It is considered a green building with its landscaped roofdeck exuding green park scenery, and architectural design that allows for sunlight to give natural illumination to a large area of the building during daytime.
The completion of the rehabilitation of Museo ng Makati in Barangay Poblacion in June last year gave the building a fresh colorful frontage. The building was constructed in 1934 and served as the Municipal Hall, and in 1991 as the city’s museum. It houses artifacts, paintings, wooden sculptures, old personal collections of community residents, uniforms of Filipino soldiers during the Spanish era, and several others.
The new Makati Science building along Kalayaan Avenue in Barangay Cembo was finished ahead of time. The 10-storey building has 70 classrooms and a basement parking for 66 slots.
Other infrastructural accomplishments of the city government are the four-storey Comembo Elementary School Extension Building with 76 more classrooms, the rehabilitation of Tejeros Housing, Carmona Sports Complex, and San Isidro Community Complex, and covered walkway and Civil Engineering Works in University of Makati. Last April, the Citywide CCTV Network Project was completed in Brgy. Poblacion.
To date, the four-storey Rizal Health Care Center (with roofdeck) is nearly completed, while construction is ongoing on the 14-storey Ospital ng Makati (with three-level basement) in Barangay Bel-Air, Koliseyum ng Bayan renovation in Barangay Pio del Pilar, Multi-Level Parking Building in Barangay Pembo, New Makati City Hall Building renovation, and construction of additional housing units in Makati’s relocation site in Calauan, Laguna.
Also in plan are the construction of the Valenzuela Multi-Purpose Hall, Police and Fire Station in Guadalupe Nuevo, mixed-use Tenement/Housing Facilities in Guadalupe Nuevo, and the Makati Columbarium Complex in Barangay Valenzuela. (ICRD/RJB/JCP/PIA-NCR)
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