Project Title & Location
CONCEPT PLANS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CACHO ESTATE
Sablan, Benguet

Client
THE CACHO FAMILY
Makati City

Project Completion
September 1992

Associated Firms
GALHIA

Services Provided
- Concept Planning

In the late 1990's when the estate cultivated coffee, the national Artist Vicente Manansala and his students frequented the place to caputre in canvas the highland views. Ruby Roxas, daughter of President Manuel A. Roxas, used to visit the estate whenever she and her gangmates have the urge to go picnicking.

Even during the Japanese occupation in the 1940's the peaks of the estate were used as observation posts due to its commanding view of the lowlands.
In the 1990's the 139-hectare property is envisioned to be a bio-resort in order to offer higher and better uses for the land. The owners of the property envision to have in the proposed bio-resort family entertainment shops, nature retreats and meditation nooks the sites of which abound in the property.
At that time, with its estimated market value of land pegged at P250 per square meter, the concept of a low intensity development is attainable. Sensitivity of the site to indiscriminate human occupancy is so arranged in order not to unduly stress the estates' carrying capacity.