New Patria de Cebu breaks ground

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/20/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Construction for the new Patria de Cebu will begin as it officially broke ground in time with the quincentennial celebrations of Christianity’s arrival here. Developer Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) and the Archdiocese of…

Finding the past at the Patria

Jobers Reynes Bersales 06/17/2019

A wooden house post, a Chinese coin, and plenty of animal bones, tradeware ceramics, earthenware sherds, clay tiles and lime mortar masonry fragments. These are, in gist, what have been recovered so far in the first four…

Cebu Landmasters suggests pedestrianized courtyard between Patria, Cathedral

Irene R. Sino Cruz 06/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) is proposing to transform a portion of P. Burgos Street, Cebu City that is located between Patria de Cebu and the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral into a restricted area for pedestrian…

Archdiocese, CLI unveils redesign of Patria de Cebu project

Irene R. Sino Cruz 06/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has given its approval to the redesign of the Patria de Cebu project that will retain the building’s original look in its final design. Rene Escalante, chairman…

Cebu Landmaster to start Patria project before yearend

Irene R. Sino Cruz 06/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) will start excavation works on the Patria de Cebu project before the year ends. CLl President and Chief Executive Officer Jose Soberano III said that the project is now ready…

Cebu Landmaster posts P2.17 billion net profit, to launch 29 new projects

Irene R. Sino Cruz 05/28/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) will be launching 29 new projects in the Visayas and Mindanao in 2019, as it posted over P2 billion in net profit. Jose Franco Soberano, CLI executive vice president and…

CLI: Patria de Cebu project still a go

Irene R. Sino Cruz 03/06/2019

CEBU CITY—Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) chief executive officer Jose Soberano III said the Patria de Cebu project would not be completed as planned by March 2021, the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in the…

MINDFULLY GREENIE: Saving a precious heritage

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 02/14/2019

  Yes, Patria de Cebu will be saved. Many concerned Cebuanos can now heave a sigh of relief. Msgr. Joseph Tan, media liaison of the Cebu Archdiocese, confirmed the news to Cebu Daily News Digital of the modification…

Cebu Archdiocese confirms Patria de Cebu development will integrate old structure

Rosalie O. Abatayo 02/13/2019

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Archdiocese of Cebu today confirmed that the development of Patria de Cebu into a mix-used commercial space will integrate the old structure of the over 50-year-old edifice. Msgr. Joseph Tan, media…

The Patria de Cebu may stay — NHCP

Rosalie Abatayo 02/12/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Heritage advocates may have a reason to rejoice. The Patria de Cebu might be saved after all. Dr. Rene Escalante, chairperson of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), told Cebu Daily…

600 signatures and counting: USC dean, faculty, students sign petition to save Patria de Cebu

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 02/02/2019

    CEBU CITY, Philippines — The fight to save Patria de Cebu continues. Seeking for an enlightened response from Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, architect Joseph Michael “Yumi” Espina along with 600 faculty members and students of…

Lessons from the Patria Issue

Jobers R. Bersales 01/21/2019

  I just came back from a return visit to a little-known small fort or stockade inside Catmondaan Elementary School. And I’d like to use this remnant of a once-intact defensive structure of the Spanish period to…

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