Pardo market’s 2nd floor opens

THE second floor of the Pardo Public Market was opened to dry goods vendors yesterday with the completion of phase 1 of the P8-milliom market renovation project.

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama told vendors the market “will be used as a market and not as a school.”

Before this, former mayor Tomas Osmeña had allowed Pardo Night High School students to hold classes at the second and third floors of the market building because of a lack of classrooms.

Dry goods vendors then occupied a vacant lot beside the market building while the wet section vendors occupied the ground floor.

Mayor Rama said he plans to construct a new Pardo police station with a detention facility. The mayor said the nearby Pardo Fire Substation also deserves a new and better building.

City Engineer Kenneth Carmelita Enriquez said students who used to occupy the market’s upper floors were already relocated to the newly constructed school building at the back of the market since last year. /Chief Of Reporters Doris Bongcac