What Has He Done?

Arnel Casanova’s highly-publicized disputes not only with CJHDevCo but also with other private developers, such as SM Land Inc. in BGC, have long spooked the business community and dampened investor confidence in PPP projects and other big-ticket joint ventures with the government, despite the successive credit upgrades of the Philippine economy as Asia’s new growth haven.

Maltreating BCDA’s private partners and its other stakeholders may be partly in Casanova’s DNA, judging from his warlike behavior towards CJHDevCo, SMLI and even seemingly harmless active and retired military officers residing in a portion of the former Fort Bonifacio army camp at BGC.

What's Next?

Camp John Hay is a well-known tourist spot in the small city of Baguio, north of Metro Manila.. But long before CampJohn Hay became a developed area, it used to be a military reservation for the United States Army named after President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State, John Milton Hay.