Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan, Vice Mayor John Marvin "Yul Servo" Nieto, and Second District Rep. Rolan Valeriano, will break ground on Thursday, October 17, for a ten-storey annex college building of the Universidad de Manila (UdM) in Tondo, Manila.
According to Valeriano, the planned UdM annex will be located on a 1,500 square meter public land in Barangay 101, Vitas, Tondo. He said that it is the first university campus in Tondo.
The school building is designed to have 10 storeys, 48 classrooms, 15 multi-function rooms, and a multipurpose gymnasium with P400 million in funding from Congress.
The target completion date of the college building is in the last quarter of 2026.
“This Universidad de Manila campus in Tondo is a historic milestone for Tondo, Congress, and the City of Manila because it is the first university campus in Tondo. This is the fruit of close collaboration for the benefit of residents of Tondo and surrounding localities. Manila provided the public land upon which the 10-storey college building shall be built. Upon our initiative, Congress provided the P400-million funding in the 2024 national budget. For the labor component, I again remind the DPWH and contractor to source most of the construction workers from here in Tondo,” Valeriano said.
Lacuna praised Valeriano for the project, saying the annex building will enable UdM to accept more students
“Congressman Valeriano’s initiative to build this campus is deeply appreciated and timely as his help comes now that the city is still paying for the P17.8 billion infrastructure spree of the former mayor who needed to fuel his ‘edifice complex’ in aid of his failed presidential campaign. So far, we have paid P2.5 billion to the banks and we will keep paying for 15 to 20 years," Lacuna said.
“Mayor Honey Lacuna and Vice Mayor Yul Servo are instrumental to the success of this project because they made sure this piece of public land would not be sold or used for some other purpose because they shared our commitment to giving access to quality education to the youth of Tondo," the lawmaker said.
“With Tondo residents providing the labor, this education infrastructure project will have highly motivated workers who care about the safety and future of their children, siblings, friends, neighbors, and future generations of Manilenos. Their wages and benefits will be the bonus for their days of honest and skilled work,” he added.