Memorial park project in Compostela breaks ground on Wednesday (June 11).
IT is all systems go for the development of a 4.8 hectare private memorial park in the northern town of Compostela.
This developed after the project called the Celestial Meadows Compostela in Barangay Cogon broke ground recently.
Ammabelle Canedo D’Souza, chief executive officer of Celestial Meadows Developers Corp. (CMDC), said in a statement that they incorporated insights and learnings about the town’s patron saint, St. James, into the project.
“Inspired by his story, we conceptualized the park according to the Camino de Santiago or the Way of St. James. Pilgrims have tried to retrace the steps of the beloved saint through different trail routes. One of the famous routes is the Via de Plata or Silver Route, wherein we selected for Celestial Meadows’ 1 km walk of reflection and prayer,” Canedo said.
The park, she said, had been tastefully designed in theme embedding sustainable engineering planning and design which took into account proper resource utilization such as re-use of water run-off, solar powered lamps, lush greeneries with tree-lined roads, two entrances and more.
Compostela Mayor Joel Quino welcomed the project, which could allow his constituents and even the neighboring localities a choice of availing of a private memorial park for their departed loved ones in the town instead of them going to the big cities which offer these kinds of parks.
“We are lucky since Celestial Meadows will be a unique project, the developer assured it will be a project Compostela can own as its pride,” Quino said in a statement.
Vice Mayor Josephine Abing, for her part, said the project would also provide a source of income not only to those who would be hired in the construction (of the project) but also the “smaller economies” within the project area.
“We expect there will be movements in terms of additional income for residents here. There will even be tourists and investors,” Abing said.
According to a statement, since 2000, CMDC has undertaken these kinds of private memorial parks in the countryside projects, which are located in Minglanilla, Naga City, Toledo City and Moalboal.
However, this is the first project under the newly joined conglomerates Norkis Group of Companies (Norkis) and Canedo Equity Ventures Inc. (CEV).
CMDC is a CEV company.