CDC president/CEO Noel F. Manankil explains that a spur road will soon be constructed to connect Xevera and Clark freeport. Photo by Ashley Manabat
MABALACAT CITY – The Clark Development Corp. is eyeing the Xevera housing complex in Barangay Tabun here as an ideal venue for thousands of Clark workers and locators who want to avail themselves of housing units inside this freeport as the pandemic rages.
In a presentation at the Xevera clubhouse on Wednesday, Rodolfo G. Valencia, chairman of the RGV Group that recently acquired the housing complex from the Home Development Mutual Fund or popularly known as Pag-IBIG Fund, said some 5,000 housing units classified as A, B, and C are “ready for occupancy.”
He said buyers can already move-in to his or her unit in one or two-weeks upon approval of his/her loan and a cash out of only five percent of the total amount of the housing unit or P58,000 all-in for class C buyers.
The housing units cost around P1.1 million for class C, P1.3 million for class B, and P1.5 million for class A.
He said the township feature of the housing complex is beneficial to the home owners since it virtually provides everything – live, study, work, play and pray.
Valencia said children of homeowners are guaranteed free schooling from Grades 1 to 10 inside the township feature and even up to college offered by the nearby Mabalacat City College.
There is also the San Angelo Catholic church, shopping center like Robinsons, restaurants, and even the city hall inside Xevera, he said.
The location of Xevera is also ideal since it is within the proximity of National Government Administrative Center at the New Clark City in nearby Capas, Tarlac; the Clark International Airport, as well as major shopping malls like SM and Ayala’s Marquee Mall and only about 80 kilometers from Manila via the North Luzon Expressway and the soon-to-operate North-South Commuter Railway which will run from the NCC all the way to Calamba, Laguna.
But more importantly, it will just be about 15 minutes from the Clark Freeport Zone, which is a source of job and employment, via a spur road which is already up for construction.
“Job opportunities is about 800,000 jobs expected in Clark,” he said.
CDC president Noel F. Manankil, who is also present during the presentation with other CDC executives, said the spur road will be a two-lane highway and 4.2 kilometers long. It will directly connect Xevera to the Clark freeport.
Manankil said it was gleaned during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) that the inter-agency task force for the management of emerging infectious diseases headed by the Department of Health allowed certain industries to operate but required them to provide housing for their workers and that made a lot of sense to a lot of locators in Clark.
“So, the big manufacturers in Clark are exploring the possibility of having a bubble housing to eliminate the threat of contamination since their routes will be from their houses to their places of work which is much safer,” he said. “So, their concern is disruption in their operations and it seems very convenient for our locators to look into Xevera.”
The Xevera housing complex can be accessed via the MacArthur Highway or from the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway via the Dolores exit.
