MCAdore Hotel is safe
Posted on June 1, 2003 - Filed Under News |
A former Dagupan city engineer and retired director of the Department of Public Works and Highways testified in court last Monday that the MC Adore Hotel where the city government is relocating vendors soon is safe.
Alfredo Tangco, city engineer here from 1973 to 1990 and director of the DPWH from 1990 to 1995, was among the witnesses presented by the defendant city government in the civil case filed by vendors at the sala of Regional Trial Court Judge Crispin Laron.
Tangco said he knew that before the July 16, 1990 earthquake, the former five-star MC Adore Hotel was the only building in Dagupan City that had a piling foundation.
Questioned by lawyer Francisco Baraan III, counsel of Mayor Benjamin Lim in the latter’s private capacity, Tangco said that during the earth-quake, the hotel was among the few buildings in Dagupan that did not suffer any cracks.
He said as director of the DPHW at that time, he led in the inspection of buildings in Dagupan after the quake and found the former hotel intact with no crack or damage whatsoever.
The adjacent former Dagupan City Supermarket collapsed and tilted and had to be abandoned and vacated, he said.
Tangco testified that he sees s no danger to life and limbs for any of the vendors that would be moved to the MC Adore Hotel from the Malimgas Public Market.
Incidentally, the temporary market vendors being built by the city government at MC Adore Hotel premises was the subject of an ocular inspection by RTC Judge Laron in the morning of March 24.
Also visited by Judge Laron was the Malimgas Public Market.
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