Comments on: The Saga of the Baguio City Market http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/ Insider tips on visiting, living & doing business in Baguio City, Philippines Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:43:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: resty http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-12593 resty Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:35:41 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-12593 "Am starting to despair!!!" -Lisa Can't blame you Lisa. Our city council does not have a good track record when it comes to doing good for the city. It was a city council that approved the development of Camp John Hay. Look where that got us. Then that contract with Jadewell, we cannot even park at the Ganza parking area now. This so-called Burnham master plan, or whatever one wants to call it. The skating rink looks like one huge shanty structure now. “Am starting to despair!!!” -Lisa

Can’t blame you Lisa. Our city council does not have a good track record when it comes to doing good for the city. It was a city council that approved the development of Camp John Hay. Look where that got us. Then that contract with Jadewell, we cannot even park at the Ganza parking area now. This so-called Burnham master plan, or whatever one wants to call it. The skating rink looks like one huge shanty structure now.

]]> By: lisa http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-12548 lisa Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:30:50 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-12548 Neis/Vise, The city is dripping with greed. Can you feel it? And with the recent fires that have been hitting our beloved market, add criminality... Hiya Resty, Padma's blog shows photos of the old pillars of the city market showing and is hoping that they will not be torn down to make room for a mall. All of us, residents, visitors and lovers of the City of Pines want the old market back. Judging by its old photos Stone Market was better looking than anything the powers that be have come up with in recent decades, so if we are to rebuild, do we really want a structure built in the style of Uniwide Malls and public markets like the the one in Urdaneta? Am starting to despair!!! Neis/Vise,

The city is dripping with greed. Can you feel it?

And with the recent fires that have been hitting our beloved market, add criminality…

Hiya Resty,

Padma’s blog shows photos of the old pillars of the city market showing and is hoping that they will not be torn down to make room for a mall. All of us, residents, visitors and lovers of the City of Pines want the old market back.

Judging by its old photos Stone Market was better looking than anything the powers that be have come up with in recent decades, so if we are to rebuild, do we really want a structure built in the style of Uniwide Malls and public markets like the the one in Urdaneta?

Am starting to despair!!!

]]> By: resty http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-12535 resty Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:00:18 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-12535 You know Lisa, I'd like to hear Architect Raffy Chan give his opinion on this, too. Architect Chan some time back wrote a letter to the editor in the Baguio Midland Courier about the traffic problem. Made so much sense. But no one picked up on it. Hope he does here. You know Lisa, I’d like to hear Architect Raffy Chan give his opinion on this, too. Architect Chan some time back wrote a letter to the editor in the Baguio Midland Courier about the traffic problem. Made so much sense. But no one picked up on it. Hope he does here.

]]> By: vise http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-11260 vise Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:49:04 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-11260 grrrrrrrr..... iba talaga nagagawa ng pera grrrrrrrr….. iba talaga nagagawa ng pera

]]> By: neis http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-11259 neis Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:43:32 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-11259 wow....Php10/sq m......commercial?!!!!!!! wow….Php10/sq m……commercial?!!!!!!!

]]> By: lisa http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-9623 lisa Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:42:34 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-9623 Hi Carlo, It would be nice if you included some details so that the folks can mark it on their calendars... :) Hi Carlo,

It would be nice if you included some details so that the folks can mark it on their calendars…

:)

]]> By: carlo dagdag http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-9610 carlo dagdag Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:25:40 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-9610 we would like to invite all baguio drinkers and bar hooppers to go on our embassy goes to baguio tour presented by emperador company on november. we would like to invite all baguio drinkers and bar hooppers to go on our embassy goes to baguio tour presented by emperador company on november.

]]> By: lisa http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-9367 lisa Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:22:16 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-9367 Hi Edgar, I have all the faith in the Baguio residents that they will become a little more politically and socially sophisticated in the years prior to your return, and turn things around for the city. You see, many who live here are new settlers who are just getting accustomed to the city (some of them, of even living in a city). You can say, therefore, that this is a new society we have here. And, with good leadership, new standards can be set, or the old standards can be re-taught. Right now, everyone is only trying to "survive" instead of "live." But what can you do to prepare your village prior to retirement? Pressure your relatives to bring the old beauty back, invest in your future by building a home that does not stick out with tangerine or electric blue colors, visit and plant some more trees in your old home, support non-traditional politicians in 2010 who will provide you with a platform and general program of action so that there are no surprises like flyovers or tree-cutting. Hi Edgar,

I have all the faith in the Baguio residents that they will become a little more politically and socially sophisticated in the years prior to your return, and turn things around for the city.

You see, many who live here are new settlers who are just getting accustomed to the city (some of them, of even living in a city). You can say, therefore, that this is a new society we have here. And, with good leadership, new standards can be set, or the old standards can be re-taught. Right now, everyone is only trying to “survive” instead of “live.”

But what can you do to prepare your village prior to retirement? Pressure your relatives to bring the old beauty back, invest in your future by building a home that does not stick out with tangerine or electric blue colors, visit and plant some more trees in your old home, support non-traditional politicians in 2010 who will provide you with a platform and general program of action so that there are no surprises like flyovers or tree-cutting.

]]> By: edgar garcia http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-9365 edgar garcia Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:01:42 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-9365 I haven't seen Baguio for more than 2 decades and I am more worried than curious of the state of the city now. I used to live along Badihoy St. The public market was my daily stop. Can I still bring my family back? I haven’t seen Baguio for more than 2 decades and I am more worried than curious of the state of the city now. I used to live along Badihoy St. The public market was my daily stop. Can I still bring my family back?

]]> By: ed villanueva http://www.i-baguio.com/baguio-city-market-saga/#comment-9341 ed villanueva Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:17:22 +0000 http://www.i-baguio.com/?p=432#comment-9341 The old Market building brings back memories,on the rightside of the building across the street where the sunshine grocery now stood was Baguio lunch where my dad and mom used to bring us for dinner.And at the back of the Old market building where the police outpost now stands,is where most of the BAguio natives together with other natives or Igorots from mountain provinces used to congregate basking on the sun wearing g-strings and a coat(americana)the ground was bloody red at that time because of the nuts they are chewing he he he.(Its so strange that up to now that area is where the natives of the cordilleras still congregate every sundays).Infront of the building is where we used to ride a 6 passenger jeepneys.In the afternoons the whole city was envelop with fogs in contrast of todays smog.Anyway Lisa thanks for posting the picture. The old Market building brings back memories,on the rightside of the building across the street where the sunshine grocery now stood was Baguio lunch where my dad and mom used to bring us for dinner.And at the back of the Old market building where the police outpost now stands,is where most of the BAguio natives together with other natives or Igorots from mountain provinces used to congregate basking on the sun wearing g-strings and a coat(americana)the ground was bloody red at that time because of the nuts they are chewing he he he.(Its so strange that up to now that area is where the natives of the cordilleras still congregate every sundays).Infront of the building is where we used to ride a 6 passenger jeepneys.In the afternoons the whole city was envelop with fogs in contrast of todays smog.Anyway Lisa thanks for posting the picture.

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