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Community Information

  • Developer: Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)(Philippines)1
  • strong>Major investors: Aruze Corporation (Japan), Genting Berhad Group (Malaysia), Bloombury Investments Limited (Australia), SM Investments Corporation (Taiwan)2,3,4
  • Anticipated completion date: 20161
  • Size: 90 hectares3
  • Total project cost: $15 billion USD4

Themes


A Brighter Future

  • ”We need tourism for our country to recover economically. With this project, we aim to make PAGCOR the catalyst for economic progress and national development.” – PAGCOR chairman Efraim Genuino3

  • ”Entertainment City would be PAGCOR’s ultimate legacy and contribution to the country’s economic recovery ” – PAGCOR chairman Efraim Genuino3


International Quality

  • ”Entertainment City Manila on initially 90 hectares of reclaimed land on Manila Bay will, according to PAGCOR, be the biggest development project in the country and become the biggest employer, with 250,000 jobs created. PAGCOR wants the huge entertainment city to rival the gambling resorts of Singapore and Macau.”4


Preserving the Past

  • “We are in talks with world-class designers who can help create a modern Filipino brand and architectural designs for our casinos that tourists would really want to see. In Macau, the casinos have a Western look, but we want to have our own, unique Casino Filipino look here.” – PAGCOR chairman and CEO Cristino L. Naguiat, Jr.2

  • “We need to go back to the Filipino roots. We need a total Filipino experience of what gaming and entertainment is all about. We need to make it not just a casino, but a total leisure and entertainment complex where people can bring their families.” – Jeannie Javellosa, culture expert and brand engineer.2

Media

Images from www.www.pagcor.ph/the-entertainment-city-project.php.

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Sources

1Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, “The Entertainment City Project,” accessed February 6, 2014, http://www.pagcor.ph/the-entertainment-city-project.php.

2United World, “Entertainment City,” Our World, June 15, 2011.

3GMA News Online, “Entertainment City Like Las Vegas to Rise on Roxas Boulevard,” GMA News Online, accessed February 6, 2014, http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/video/5042/24oras/entertainment-city-like-las-vegas-to-rise-on-roxas-boulevard.

4CasinoCompendium Multilingual Casino Industry News, “PAGCOR Bets on Entertainment City,” 2008, http://www.casinocompendium.com/archive/entcity.html.

This research sponsored by National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program Award No. BCS-1026754.