MANILA, Philippines - Quezon City is a big city. Most of the commercial and business centers along the northern part of EDSA and beyond that we flock to every day are part of it. To celebrate the city’s 70th founding anniversary recently, the city government chose to immortalize the landmarks and centers that are the pulse of Quezon City by highlighting these locations on commemorative postage stamps. The iconic 66-meter high Quezon Memorial Pylon, the massive Araneta Coliseum, the Quezon City Hall at night, and the buzzing IT and commercial hub of Eastwood City — these places are “proudly Quezon City.”
When leading property developer Megaworld Corp. broke ground in Eastwood City along the then lonely C-5 Road in the late 1990’s, it was an act of faith on the meticulous planning and grand vision of its chairman, Andrew Tan. With the cooperation of the city government, only he could have foreseen how Eastwood would grow into a city-within-a-city that it is now. It is the combination of complete and cutting edge information technology (IT) facilities alongside an entertainment, shopping center and residential district that makes Eastwood City an ideal working environment for tens of thousands of employees 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Eastwood City Cyberpark’s top locators can certainly attest to this. And this is why the Cyberpark shares the Quezon City 70th anniversary honors with its top six corporate locators, according to Megaworld FVP for Business Development Jericho Go.
“As Eastwood City celebrates its 10th year, we are proud to have been named as a Quezon City landmark on its 70th anniversary. We are pleased to share this distinction with our top six locators: Citibank, IBM, Dell, Sitel, Trend Micro and Emerson Network Power,” Go declared.
The Eastwood City Cyberpark is the Philippines’ first information technology zone nestled within a residential and commercial area. This combination continues to provide an ideal working environment for the Cyberpark’s 53 offshoring and outsourcing locators. The strong partnership between Megaworld and the local government, under Mayor Sonny Belmonte, enabled Quezon City to become the undisputed information technology capital of the Philippines.