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Haciendas de Naga is an approximate of one hundred five (105) hectares master-planned community by Arch. Felino A. Palafox and Associates. Palafox and Associates belongs to World’s Top 200 Architectural Firms & No. 1 in Asia. It is situated in Carolina, Uptown Naga City.

The proposed developments for the area are Residential Estates, Farm Lots, Recreational, and Resort and Sports Facilities, Health and Wellness Centers, and varied leisure amenities. The project also features a Nine-Hole Tropical Golf Course and Country Club.

Haciendas de Naga’s development theme is Neo-Urbanism. The concept of Neo-Urbanism will be largely applied in developing this pioneering mixed-use project to usher for a more ‘walkable community’ that also espouses ‘Kapit-Bayanan’. Security, in effect, is beefed up by these new concepts.

The drive for a mixed-use development concept is gearing towards variety and vibrancy of the community in which development will not only present a singular theme but rather an amalgamation of different developments in one contiguous area. Themed Residences, Hacienda Farm Lots, Golf and Country Club, Recreational Facilities, Health & Wellness Village, Commercial Areas, Demo Farms, Pools and Parks are among the various building blocks of one entire development project. Walkways in the commercial areas, including common facilities and amenities, are as much as possible intended to be covered to make it more ‘walkable’.

The Kapit-Bayanan concept, on the other hand, aims to develop a more collegial community atmosphere wherein neighbors are encouraged to interact freely by designing the residential estates to be devoid of high concrete fences and that the houses have more windows or open panels facing the road so that there will be more ‘eyes on the street.’ This way, criminality can also be prevented since the neighborhood would be aware of what’s happening within their immediate periphery. Dubious faces coming in their community pockets can also be easily spotted since the neighbors themselves know who are usually entering each other’s houses.

Haciendas de Naga is closely located to nature and is home to about 1,000 Pili trees, mango trees, calamansi and other fruit-bearing trees and is traversed by rich flowing creeks and rivers in most proposed park and lagoon areas that may serve as surface drainage. It has a wide and expansive frontage of about 2.1 kilometers and is accessible to existing major roads keeping a comfortable proximity to the City’s Central Business District and is predominantly surrounded with residential and institutional facilities like schools, chapel, etc. that complement to the function of the proposed development – a world-class master planned and self-contained community having complete facilities for commercial, institutional, mixed-use and recreational. Once completed, the whole development is expected even help decongest the city proper.

The development also prides on Tourism-Enhanced facilities that aim to support the local tourism initiatives of the government and its affiliated agencies. The development aims to be the jump-off point in visiting the different tourist attractions within the region including the smallest and largest fish in the world is also present in the Bicol Region.