Cebu Property Ventures and Development Corp., owner of Asiatown IT Park (AITP) in Lahug, here, expects to increase the park’s 5,700 working population with the recent opening of the Engineering Sciences Building of the Primary Industrial Properties Corp. (PIPC) and Skyrise Building of the Skyrise Realty and Development Corp., the company said in a statement.
PIPC is currently completing its second building with 17,611 square meters of leasable office space.
For contact center employees, the park posted an increase of more than 50 percent this year.
AITP administrator Raul Manaquil said the contact center workers, which increased from 1,424 to 2,384, comprise almost 60 percent of the total employees in the park.
”Around P1.4 billion in annual employee’s compensation will go to the local economy of Cebu by the end of 2006, not to mention the income tax component generated out of the employees’ wages,” Mananquil said.
The two newly built buildings are fully occupied. The Engineering Sciences Building has eTelecare, Dash Engineering, SPI Technologies and a ground level retail strip.
The Skyrise building houses PeopleSupport, Epson, Astro Ship, Info Weapons, Qualfon International, and Microsoft.
PeopleSupport, one of the country’s pioneering contact centers, needs 1,600 seats for its expansion.
Mexico-based Qualfon International, which opened last June, will exclusively service Tracfone Wireless Inc., a US-based cellphone company with about seven million customers.
Microsoft has now set up a base in Cebu. Microsoft-Cebu office is temporarily at the Ayala FGU Center but will move to the park by November.(PNA)
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