A mini forest owned by the Government Social Insurance Service (GSIS) located within the prime land of the City of Baguio is under study for commercial development. SM, the country’s biggest mall operator in tandem with GSIS plans to construct a commercial building to cater to both local and foreign tourists.
The plan if push through, will make the place a jungle of concrete edifices eliminating of what remains the only lush greeneries in the city. The various sectors, driven by their love of the environment and the green foliage that makes the place serene, lambasted the development plan.
But the oppositions are up against a formidable nemesis. The GSIS head is a tough lackey of the administration and the SM Malls spread all over the country is owned by one of the richest taipans in Asia.