New Talisay City Market to Start January 2015

Talisay City Chief Executive Johnny De los Reyes bared last week that a modern public market amounting to P350 million will be built in barangay Tabunok, Talisay City on January 2015.

De los Reyes said the construction process of the whole edifice will be within 8 months.

“so at least by December 2015 we already have a new market building to stand in barangay Tabunok”, he said.

According to De los Reyes, this new market building in Tabunok is a replacement of an old structure which was left by its occupants made by former Talisay City Mayor Socrates Fernandez and its council members.

The more than 1,000 Tabunok market vendors were all forcibly transferred to an P88 million public market building in barangay Lagtang, a kilometer distance from Tabunok, despite of the vendors’ massive opposition.

The dilemma of the vendors started when they found out that most of the market goers have chose to shop in Tabunok,
rather than to go to Lagtang which apparently gave them additional financial burden.

Then the old Tabunok market lot which was offered to sale to a retailer was frustrated when majority of the vendors and market goers objected.

The agony of the vendors and their families and majority of the Talisay population against the former administration was fully expressed during the historic May 2013 elections which made De los Reyes won.

De los Reyes who saw the weakness of his opponents on public market issues. vowed to build a modern market in Tabunok and promised to return back all market vendors to Tabunok, who were made hostage in Lagtang market.

“Now I’m starting to address the vendors’ problem with the realization of my promise, to have modern Tabunok public market”, he said.

Its design, De los Reyes said, is patterned after the attractive public market in Naga City in the National Capital Region, where he and other Talisay government officials made an educational tour.

The new market building has three storeys and its rooftop will serve as parking area.

The ground floor of the market building will be rented by fast food chains, pharmacy and other stores which are capable to pay thousands of pesos to the government monthly.

This is how the government can easily pay the P350 million loan for this new market, De los Reyes added.

De los Reyes also said the second and third floors of the market building are intended for vendors.