P 1 billion hotel resort and housing projects to rise in Bataan town

BAGAC, Bataan -The construction of a P 1 billion peso hotel resort and housing projects in the coastal village of Banawang, this town, is expected to boost the historic peninsula’s bid to become Central Luzon’s strategic tourism destination.

Nick S. Ancheta, Bagac municipal administrator has stressed the development of  structurally exceptional  resort project of Cresta de Oro Corporation owned by the family of a prominent contractor  in Metro Manila, Ronnie del Rosario, is classified as mixed-use property investment scheme which would create integrated tourism growth that will be sustainable and inclusive.

Ancheta explained that the construction of the two-storey  La Jolla Resort Hotel with 120 rooms is now proceeding smoothly  while  rushing for site preparation  of   two-Olympic-sized  swimming pools, clubhouse and recreational  facilities, mini-forest park, road concreting, light and drainage system  in a 16.7 hectare land in the coastal sitio of Ulingan, also here in barangay Banawang.

According to Ancheta, with the latest real estate development in the premier tourist destination, Mayor Louise Gabriel Q. Del Rosario and the municipal tourism council is in the process of upgrading the promotional and marketing measures and investment behaviors to provide locators and business entrepreneurs with the best incentives.

Aside from job generation, increase in local taxes and revenues, and more small and medium businessmen to participate in the surging economy, Ancheta described the tourism industry which is becoming the main source of livelihood of the residents would cope with the demand for services  and amenities of the growing number of tourist arrivals in the locality.

Bagac, one of the two starting points of the infamous Death March,  has the longest shorelines in the Bataan peninsula of about 70 kilometer stretch from the boundary of Mariveles  to  Morong towns facing the best of nature’s gift with the panoramic vista of majestic West Philippine Sea  and the lush virgin forest of Bataan National Park.