The Old House |
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Demolition of the old house started in October, 2000 to give way for the
construction of
the Front Mall of The Village Commercial Center. |
Start of Construction |
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Construction of the
Front Mall
phase 1 started on
December 15, 2000. Phase 2
started on February 16, 2001. |
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Construction
finished on June, 2001.
Anchor tenant Lot's A Pizza
moved to its new location
in July, 2001. |
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Road Construction |
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Road construction
started in May 8,
2001. The same contractor was
selected from 2 other designs
submitted by other contractors. |
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Showroom |
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A showroom was
constructed for
GST Bike Shop & Gen. Merchandise's
display of their bikes. |
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Covered Sidewalk |
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A covered
sidewalk is now being constructed to house the sidewalk vendors with low
daily rental of $3 per day! |
cantina |
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A billiard hall was
constructed for
Yey's billiard business. It became
the "cantina" project to study the
operation of a
restaurant/bar/entertainment center. |
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GST Bike Shop & Gen. Merchandise |
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Yey's
new house was constructed
way before the construction of
the Front Mall. The construction
lasted for around 7 months from
March to October, 2000. |
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Staff House/Carinderia |
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Lumber from the old house was used to build this Staff House/Carinderia. It
first became a boarding house which
was cancelled due to problems with boarders. It is now the residence of
Richie and his family as a benefit of being
my Assistant in this business. |
Bodega/Employees' Quarter |
A Bodega was built to store the
lumber from the old house. |
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An Employees'
Quarter was also
built beside the Bodega. It is now
occupied by 4 employees including
Yey's 2 helpers. |