INTERVIEW ON GREEN CITY

Anvil's President Mr. Reginald Yu represented the Anvil Business Club (Association of Young Filipino-Chinese Entrepreneurs) in a special taping session at Radioworld Broadcasting Corporation (CLTV36) studios based in San Fernando, Pampanga, on the topic of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA)'s "Clark Green City."
The Anvil Business Club was especially selected by CLTV36 for a taped television interview regarding "Clark Green City's" potentials for investors as the next Metro Manila – only this time, more environmentally sustainable. "The project plan presented by BCDA President, Atty. Arnel Casanova during Anvil's Team-Building Session last October 2 was very promising," I said. "If executed as well as its previous projects – most notably the Bonifacio Global City – I believe that the 'Clark Green City' would even surpass the growth potential of BGC in terms of scope and breadth."

Indeed, the "Clark Green City" is seen to be a more modern version of the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, and is planned to be 100 times bigger; moreover, the said plan shall boast of sustainable high-rise buildings, its own water recycling facility, and a water catchment facility, among others. Touted to be the center of big business and venue for trade activities for the whole of Central Luzon, the 35,000-hectare area adjoining the Clark Special Economic Zone is envisioned to be environmentally sustainable, socially inclusive, economically competitive, culturally relevant, and technologically integrated.
Asked if members of the Anvil Business Club would invest in such an endeavor, I replied, "Any businessman worth his/her salt would certainly do. Who would not want to invest in a destination where nature, lifestyle and business, education, and industry converge into a global city based on principles of sustainability?"
CLTV36 is the first and only free-to-air regional TV Station with a reach of 5.2 million population in Central Luzon. It is carried by 34 cable partners with 58,000 household subscribers. Broadcasting over Central Luzon's seven provinces (Pampanga,Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Bataan,Tarlac, Zambales and Aurora), CLTV36 is designed to serve the region through its news and public affairs programs, complemented with entertainment shows. The studio is part of the Laus Group of Companies owned and operated by business tycoon and fellow JCI Senator Liberato "Levy" Laus.
Kudos to Aldrin Marcelo and Irish Dotillos of CLTV36 for their warm accommodation.