This all started when I wrote this blog entry: My Legazpi City. I would ran across the multiply blog of this Bicolano blogger. Since then, I would meet a number of fellow Uragons on Facebook and I have to thank these guys for all the work in promoting our beautiful city in Bicol, Legazpi City. Dex Baldon has been at the forefront with his Legazpi City Facebook and Wow Legazpi and another person who I still don’t know behind Gayon Bicol.There’s also Pading Romy, who has been hilariously pulling all Uragons on Facebook. All of them, and together with the rest of Uragons, are truly doing such a commendable job in promoting our long forgotten region in the Philippines only known for it’s poverty. Finally, I am seeing some beautiful changes! And I’m loving it!

There’s so many things going on in Legazpi City right now. Some infrastructure development have been finished, the rest are ongoing.

We now have a Grand Central Station.

Work on the new Legazpi Boulevard is in full blast. This coastal road network, which stretches some 4.095 kilometers from the Legazpi port to Lamba, is envisioned to be the “Roxas Boulevard” of Legazpi.

There’s been a host of other infrastructure projects in and around Legazpi City like this one…

Or this reclamation project behind Kapuntukan Hill…

Or new roads and/or access roads…

We have a small city. By air, you’d see the new Legazpi Boulevard, the Reclamation Area and the new Embarcadero.

I truly am happy with our public officials of the Albay and the Legazpi City Government for making all these possible. Isn’t all these great?

But if there is one thing that I am truly excited about – it’s the ongoing construction of the new Bicol International Airport.

The Bicol International Airport project in Barangay Alobo in Daraga received an additional P23 million to complete its right-of-way acquisition which has so far attained close to a 75 percent mark of accomplishment. The amount is on top of the P82 million earlier released by Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) to compensate the land owners whose property the new airport will occupy.

Albay Gov. Joey S. Salceda said 72 percent of the land acquisition has already been completed. The main constraints in the acquisitions of lands the airport will cover are posed by lots mortgaged to rural banks which have been foreclosed by the Philippine Development Insurance Corp., and some lot owners who now live abroad.

Source: Bicol International Airport Updates
Note: These pictures are from the Legazpi City Facebook and Wow Legazpi.

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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.