MABALACAT CITY–The Clark Development Corp. (CDC) is eyeing the Xevera housing complex in Barangay Tabun here as venue for thousands of Clark workers and locators who want to avail of housing units inside this freeport during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a presentation at the complex’s clubhouse on Wednesday, an official said some 5,000 housing units classified as A, B and C are already RFOs, or “ready for occupancy.”
Rodolfo G. Valencia, chairman of the RGV Group that recently acquired the housing complex from the Home Development Mutual Fund, said buyers can already move in to his or her unit in one week or two weeks upon approval of his/her loan and a cash out of 5 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, according to Valencia.
He added the “township” feature of the housing complex benefits home owners since it provides everything.
Valencia said children of homeowners are guaranteed free schooling from grade 1 to 10 inside the township and even up to college offered by the nearby Mabalacat City College.
There is also a Catholic church, a shopping center, restaurants and even the City Hall inside Xevera, he added.
The location of Xevera is also ideal since it is within the proximity of National Government Administrative Center at the New Clark City (NCC) in nearby Capas, Tarlac, the Clark International Airport, as well as major shopping malls. Valencia said the complex is 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.
The complex will just be about 15 minutes from the Clark Freeport Zone, which is a source of job and employment, via a spur road that is already up for construction, Valencia added.
“About 800,000 jobs are 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 they gleaned from the enhance community quarantine (ECQ) that government 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, he said.
“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,” Manankil said.
“So, their concern is disruption in their operations and it seems very convenient for our locators to look into Xevera,” he added.
The Xevera housing complex can be accessed via the MacArthur Highway or from the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway via the Dolores exit.