Majestic trees create green landscape

November 2, 2011

The word ‘city’ often brings images of drab grey buildings and noisy, congested streets, full of modern comfort features but usually devoid of natural beauty. That’s not so in a city south of Manila where a Filinvest development mixes the serenity of nature with various structures to create an inviting urban destination.

Filinvest Alabang, a premier central business district that sprawls on 244 hectares of master-planned space, is at par with the world’s modern metropolitan centers. It is a business hub by day, a venue of culture and leisure at night, and a center for family entertainment all week. A number of establishments compose the business, entertainment, commercial and leisure features of this center. There’s the Festival Supermall, Northgate Cyberzone, Westgate Center and The Palms Country Club. It also features office towers, shopping and dining destinations, condominiums, hotels, and serviced apartments.

What makes this urban center remarkable is the landscape of nature – trees, water forms, bushes, ornamentals. The patches of nature provide a beautiful backdrop to life in the city.

There are more than 3,000 date palm trees incorporated into the landscape, lining the main thoroughfares: Corporate, Commerce, Parkway and Bridgeway Avenues. Known as one of the world’s oldest food producing plant, the date palm’s long trunk topped by large crowns of leaves that can grow as long as 20 feet, creates a majestic look that enhances the city skyline.

From the arcaded pathways and tree-lined promenades, to the parks, greenbelts, elevated walkways and underpasses, the presence of date palm trees make Filinvest City a veritable pedestrian’s paradise.

A main road, Civic Drive is also lined with hundreds of samanea saman, also known as rain trees. Rain trees grown in the open usually reach a height of 25 meters, and its crown grows a typical diameter of 30 meters – this allows the rain tree to have its characteristic umbrella-shaped canopy that provides cool shade.

The sidewalks of Civic Drive are also lined with hundreds of the yellow Poinciana. Also known as copper-pod, the yellow Poinciana is a flamboyant flowering tree that can grow up to 50 feet tall.

With the freshness of green livening up the sea of grey, as one will see in the thousands of trees artfully placed in this development, Filinvest Alabang provides an urban escape. In this haven of trees, people can enjoy living and working in a vibrant city with a refreshing backdrop.

Filinvest Alabang is a prime development of Filinvest, a leader in property development for over 50 years.

The company is guided by the Gotianun tradition of integrity, quality and service, committed to building the dream homes of Filipino families.