CLARK ECOZONE -- Berthaphil Business Park, Inc. – Clark’s leading Information Communications Technology property developer -- will launch soon its project known as The Center at Clark.

The park is another multi-million peso project that is expected to employ about 20,000 workers upon completion.

Elizabeth Castro, president/general manager of Berthaphil, said the project is their third project in Clark which will be located on the corner of Roxas Boulevard and Jose Abad Santos Streets inside this economic zone.

Castro however did not say how much investments will be poured in this 3rd industrial estate of Berthaphil.

Already, the first two industrial parks are hosts to prestigious several locators such as Rolls Royce, Pacific Carpet, Nanox, H3 Technology and other Information Technology clients such as Sutherland Global Service and Intellirisk Management Corporation, two US-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centers.

Expected at the groundbreaking are Clark Development Corporation chair Rizalino Navarro, CDC president Levy P. Laus, CDC executive vice president Philip Panlilio Andre Hercz, chairman and founder of Berthaphil Inc. and Castro.

The Center at Clark - masterplanned by Palafox and Associates - is a 14-hectare area that will be dedicated to state-of-the-art facilities in a park-like setting for multinational IT and service-related companies.

According to Castro, Berthaphil was founded by Hercz, who first came to Clark with his brother-in-law and partner Jack Nasser in 1993 at the request of former President Ramos.

It was in 1993 when the former president asked Hercz to become one of the first investors in Clark. The transformation of Clark into a bustling ecozone started with the first wave of locators led by Hercz in the mid 1990s. Since then, Clark has risen from twin calamities ? the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991 and its aftermath, and the eventual pull out of the American troops after staying for almost a century inside the former US air base.
(Sun.Star Pampanga/Sunnex)