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Upscale office towers and the rush-hour crowds that fill them are often associated with central business districts (CBDs), key economic centers that have long been synonymous with places like Makati and Bonifacio Global City.
But in Batangas, a unit of the Aboitiz Group is developing a different kind of CBD: one built around factories rather than financial institutions, and with a blueprint that has workers of all types in mind.
“We’re really trying to be a solution for the base of the pyramid,” says Rafael Fernandez de Mesa, president and CEO of Aboitiz Economic Estates and Aboitiz Land, in an interview with the Inquirer. “We’re not trying to be BGC or Makati.”
Unlike Metro Manila’s business districts, the growth of LIMA Estate is anchored on manufacturing.
