A resolution requesting the organizers of the 2015 BacoLaodiat Festival on Feb. 19 to 22, 2015 to include the Bacolod City Chinatown Center (Capitol Shopping Center) as one of the festival sites for the celebration, was approved by the Baoclod Sangguniang Panlungsod Friday.

The resolution authored by Councilor Sonya Verdeflor saidthat by virtue of City Ordinance 576, S.of 2011, known as “The Bacolod City Chinatown Center Ordinance”, the area covering the whole of Capitol Shopping Center was created as the Bacolod City Chinatown Center in honor of the Filipino-Chinese brothers whose generous contributions and investments have resulted to the economic development of Bacolod City.

It said the Bacolaodiat Festival celebrated during the Chinese Spring Festival period and spearheaded by the Filipino-Chinese community in Bacolod City in coordination with the Bacolod City government is on its initial preparations for the February celebration.

Since the first celebration of Bacolaodiat by virtue of City Ordinance No. 426, S.of 2007, the main events of the said festival were mostly held at the Lacson Tourism Strip, the resolution said.

With the creation of the Bacolod City Chinatown Center covering the whole of Capitol Shopping Center, it is an appropriate venue to be designated as one of the festival sites for the Bacolaodiat Festival celebration, it said.*CGS

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