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City Agora work to resume this week
EYE SORE REMAINS. This two-storey
edifice right at the city's commercial hub remains a major
eye sore to visiting tourists. Mayor Lim says he wants
the City Business Center completed soon. Foto DANNY
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The
much delayed work at the unfinished Agora Market, which
will be converted into the Tagbilaran Business Center
(TBC) will resume this week, right after the City Fiesta.
This
was assured by City Mayor Dan Lim yesterday whose critics
started to question on when this major "eye sore"
right in the heart of the city's commercial district
will be finally transformed into a business center.
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For
more than 10 years now since the term of former Mayor Joe
Torralba, the unfinished two-storey edifice right along CPG
Avenue, fronting the BQ Mall, has not been completed.
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Under
Mayor Lim's blueprint, the build-operate-transfer arrangement,
it will make this section of the city purely commercial.
Contractor
Beng Ko, told the Chronicle yesterday that at a project
cost of P70 million, he will complete the project before
Christmas time.
The proposed Tagbilaran Business Center covers a floor
area of about 10,000 sq meters, for both the ground
and second levels. The center will not be a mall-type
design, Ko explained. It will be a business center with
branded establishments such as banks, restaurants and
other service outlets.
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The
center will have its own parking area which can accommodate
no less than 100 vehicles.
Mayor
Lim said that once completed, the contractor pays the city
government P5 million annual lease for over 20 years.
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