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Snapshots: A round-up of BCDA’s milestones in the past quarter
A round-up of BCDA's milestones in the past quarter.
OCTOBER 6 FedEx marks 36 years of operations in the Philippines with a new gateway facility in Clark. OCTOBER 16 McDonald’s expands free RT-PCR testing program to 20,000 restaurant crews and managers. NOVEMBER 9 Groundbreaking ceremony for the Fixed Wing Hangar, Rotary Hangar, and Multi-Level Parking of the Philippine Air Force.
NOVEMBER 16 The National Task Force Against COVID-19 and the BCDA conducts Aggressive Community Testing in Capas East Central High School. NOVEMBER 18 BCDA donates 1,000 hygiene kits to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. DECEMBER 9 Filinvest Consortium signs 25-year lease agreement for a 5,700sqm property in Camp John Hay. The agreement will pave way to the construction of a 200+ room hotel in the property.
DECEMBER 10 New Clark City’s sports facilities were recognized as the 2019 Sports Tourism Destination during the 4th Sports Tourism Awards Night. DECEMBER 22-23 BCDA delivers Yuletide packages to 1,500 soldiers from the Philippine Air Force, Philippine Army, Philippine Navy, and Philippine Marine Corps.
Luzon Bypass Infrastructure Project
The Luzon Bypass Infrastructure Project is a joint project of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
The project is under the government’s National Broadband Plan, which intends to establish an ultra high-speed information highway. It will help improve the Internet speed and accessibility in the country.
Once operational, the economic zones under the BCDA will benefit from up to 500,000 megabytes per second (MBps) of Internet speed yearly. This will contribute to building a strong foundation for our own smart cities.
