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Philippines Multi-Billion Reclamation Projects will 3x METRO MANILA's Business Center

Metro Manila, The Philippines National Capital Region has a population of nearly 15 million this year, in an area of 619.5 square kilometers. Compared to its neighboring cities, Singapore has over 6 million population in an area of 734.3 square Kilometers. With its limited land area around Metro Manila, land reclamations will be the easiest way to expand its urbanization closer to the city centers.
With these in mind, the Philippine Government and the private sector will reclaim more than 10,000 hectares within Metro Manila. These will take parts of the total of 26,234 hectares of the 38 reclamation projects in Manila Bay. Among these, 13 projects are approved under various stages of compliance out of the 25 reclamation projects in the Metro Manila section of Manila Bay.
According to Maps provided by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, show the three ongoing reclamation projects, these are Harbour City in Pasay, with 265 hectares of land allocated for institutions, condominiums, and hotels. The SM new Bay City, a 390-hectare joint venture between the city and SM Prime Holdings. And the 318-hectare Manila Waterfront City project near the United States Embassy. The DENR map also showed seven projects, which are currently in the implementation or preparatory stage. The 650-hectare Navotas Coastal Bay project. The 419-hectare Horizon Manila project; the 148-hectare Manila Solar City project; Las Pinas-Parañaque Coastal Bay Project with over 431 and 203 hectares. And three reclamation projects in Cavite covering 420 hectares.
Other approved projects are the 400-hectare City of Pearl Reclamation Project in Manila; the 844-hectare Manila-Cavite toll expressway reclamation project in Bacoor; and the 472-hectare Cavite four-island reclamation project.
Will these projects, come into reality?
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered an indefinite suspension of 22 major land reclamation projects in Manila Bay to allow a study of their environmental impact and legal compliance.
Marcos's order came after the United States expressed public concern over environmental damage from the projects and the involvement of a Chinese company that was blacklisted by Washington for its role in building militarized Chinese island bases in the South China Sea that further stoked tensions in the contested waters.
At a Palace briefing last week, Environment Secretary said that the DENR had been conducting a cumulative impact assessment of some of the reclamation projects in the Manila Bay area. The assessment also includes if the reclamation projects aggravated the perennial flooding in the metropolis.

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