Rides for Silay Theme Park to Arrive this Year - Golez
by Eugene Adiong on Thu, 02/02/2017
Silay City - Rides for the theme park that will rise in Silay City will soon arrive this year, Mayor Mark Golez said yesterday.
Golez confirmed that the theme park project of the Laguna-based Enchanted Kingdom group is already a go.
“Negotiations are ongoing and I have already met with the people who are going to plan to set up a theme park in Silay City,” the Mayor said.
Within the year, the rides for the theme park will arrive already, he said.
“It will be a big boost to the tourism, it will generate income for the city as well as jobs,” Golez pointed out.
He said that “from a third class city, Silay may become a first class city.”
He said that the project “is worth more than a billion pesos.”
Golez said that Rep. Alfredo Benitez (3rd district) has already made an announcement of the project.
“if he issues such a statement, he will stand by it. He is true to his word and he won’t let us down,” he added.
As to its opening, Golez says that it may open anytime next year.
Last year, Benitez said that the project will be worth about P600 million and will operate before 2017 ends.
But, in an announcement posted on its official Facebook page, Enchanted Kingdom denied that they are planning such a project outside of its current 25-hectare site in Sta. Rosa, Laguna.
Meanwhile, Golez said that plans are ongoing to construct a new government center near the Bacolod-Silay Airport.
“I already talked with the landowners, the Jison family and they have already pledged to donate seven hectares to the city government,” he said, adding that “five hectares will go to the new City Hall and the other two hectares to the proposed city college.”
Only Silay and Victorias among the 10 cities in Negros Occidental have no new city hall, Golez said, adding that the city college is one of my promises during the campaign.
“It’s time to build a new government center,” he added, “the area will be the Silay and the area along the national highway will be the old Silay.”
The current City Hall will be converted into a museum, bed and breakfast or house other government agencies, he said.
He added that the plan will go through the process of securing a loan and approval of the City Council, Golez said.*
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Ako ang kapitan sg sini nga barko. Indi ini magkadto sa wala ukon sa tuo, kundi derecho sa direksyon sang pagbag-o sang gobyerno para sa kaayuhan sang Bacolodnon.
