OUTGOING Muntinlupa Mayor and Congressman-elect Jaime R. Fresnedi led the inauguration of the new Muntinlupa City Public Market, now called Alabang Central Market, together with local officials yesterday morning.
The local exec led the unveiling of the marker of the new market’s Building A, one of its two buildings, with outgoing Congressman and Mayor-elect Ruffy Biazon.
Fresnedi expressed hope the new market will boost the local economy and help small business owners in the city recover from challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also joining the inauguration ceremony were Vice Mayor Temy Simundac, City Councilors, City Administrator Allan Cachuela, Muntinlupa City Public Market chief Randy Garcia, and other local officials.
Alabang Central Market has two building — Building A for the wet and vegetables section and Building B for the dry and groceries section, with a lot area of 20,000 sq.m.
Building A has three floors with a total of 448 stalls. The building’s ground floor consists of 242 stainless stalls for fish, chicken, beef, and pork products; 11 buko (coconut) stalls; five commercial/dry stalls, and six canteen stalls with toilet, while the second floor has 172 vegetable stalls and 12 canteen stalls.
The three-story Building B which is yet to be completed will have 357 dry stalls for groceries, sari-sari stores, and a canteen, among others with roll-up doors.
The new Alabang Central Market buildings are equipped with fire protection features such as fire hose cabinets, sprinkler systems, and fire alarm detection. Some of the architectural features in the facilities are rainwater collector, LED lights, and being solar panel-ready.
Facilities at the site development also include material recovery facilities, electrical room, genset room, ice storage/ice plant, products storage (wet and dry), and meat inspection and security offices.
It also has a parking capacity of 235 private cars, eight accessible parking slots, 13 tricycle slots, 54 motorcycle parking, and 23 delivery trucks.
