Presenting quality choices to clients is a corporate value of St. Rafael Development Corporation. Thus, housing sizes range from 45A and 45B, 55A and 55B, 64.8A and 64.8B, 78.3A and 78.3B square meter expandable units with driveways and a mix of attractive types and styles of frontage, set in a spot with a well-balanced spacing of areas for pedestrians and vehicles.

The new urbanism that Providence-Iloilo hopes to promote and live up to is a reinvention of the neighborhood concept which ascertains less automobile traffic by having more people walking than driving. Thus, the discomforts and dangers of speeding and ancillary traffic within the neighborhood is avoided, making streets safer, comfortable and interesting meeting places, as it allows buildings that open onto sidewalks and front porches that invite interaction among neighbors. The concept also includes an ever-wider range of architectural styles that include non-traditional and contemporary approaches to vibrant colors, varying price levels and a range of parks connecting and distributed within neighborhoods.

Providence-Iloilo combines all the essential elements of a complete neighborhood: identifiable center and edge; limited size (commonly 5 minutes walk from center to edge); mix of uses and housing types; interconnected network of walkable streets; and special sites for civic purposes. Its districts generally emphasize a special single use that follows its design. Its corridors serve as regional connectors of neighborhoods and districts; they range from boulevards and rail lines to rivers and parkways. The neighborhood structure of varying housing types, pricing levels, and conservation areas promote daily interaction among people of diverse ages, races, and incomes and lead to stronger personal and civic bonds that revitalize urban centers through concentrations of civic, institutional and commercial activity.

Designed in a multi-village set-up with a welcoming main entrance gate (incorporated to a guard house), Providence-Iloilo has multiple villages where houses are lined in concentric circles and paved with elliptical roads, with each village having its own identifying color identity and village center in the middle. A perimeter fence encloses the community, makes it self-contained and provides adequate security. Fire hydrant provisions add to the safety of individual homes and the whole community.

A hierarchy of road networks that assure slowing down of automobiles and easier pedestrian crossing stems from a 20-meter wide main entrance avenue, narrowing through the 12-meter collector road, and down to 8-meter wide streets. Walking is even made safer for the children and elderly with 2, 1.5 and 1-meter wide tree-lined sidewalks.

The main neighborhood center, 400 meters in radius, is just a 5-minute walk that makes accessible shops, work places, schools, houses of worship, recreational areas, promenades, and major terminals and stops that provide the many daily needs of residents.

Each 200-meter radius inner village center, only a 3-minute walk to various facilities like playgrounds, multi-purpose halls, and shop houses (lined up on its outer radius), is at the heart of natural and landscaped village spaces, made open for the enjoyment of everyone in the community. Hence, riverside promenades for public gatherings and entry to neighborhoods, and gazebos overlooking the park and fit for recreation and relaxing nature activities are also well provided for all residents and otherwise.

This is the site of a revolutionary housing concept from St. Rafael Development Corporation of Iloilo. In the tradition of the many monumental firsts of Iloilo, Providence-Iloilo boasts of the only, and perhaps the Philippines' first, world-class mass housing community outside of Mega Manila.

Situated in the vicinity of Barangay Balabag, Pavia, Metro Iloilo City, it will become the center of a New Urbanism, a design movement now sweeping the globe in its reinvention of the neighborhood concept. Providence Iloilo, designed to have a balance of housing, jobs, and services, aims to fulfill every Filipino family's dream of a secure, accessible, comfortable, and sustainable home and community. It also allows for a variety of choices in home sizes, types and styles made available and affordable for the most discerning in providing for a quality family life.

Inspired by Divine Providence and enabled by careful planning and foresight, St. Rafael Development Corporation of Iloilo hopes that Providence Iloilo will be instrumental in enhancing the life of every Filipino family. Hence, it upholds its vision: "Building Communities. Transforming Lives. For the greater Glory of God.

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