Kris Aquino plans to develop resort in Sarangani

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Kris Aquino announced here on Thursday she planned to buy a beachfront property in Glan, Sarangani, after falling in love with the place during a recent visit.

Aquino wrote on her Twitter account that she had fallen in love with the beach at Barangay (village) Gumasa on Sarangani Bay when she first came in February.

Aquino was then on a shoot her for her week-long KrisTV Birthday Special when she decided to take a break. In a spur-of-the-moment decision, the TV host said, she and her crew visited Glan, about 62 kilometers from here, and were awed by what they found:  a fine white-sand beach stretching the entire length of a cove.

A city government staffer, who accompanied Aquino to Gumasa, said that upon arriving there, they went to the Rosal Beach, where the TV host immediately took off her shoes and walked on the beach.

“It was love at first sight for [Kris Aquino], who even quipped that she would want to buy a property there,” the city government staffer said.

The staffer said Aquino even said in jest: “Everybody would want to be my neighbor” if she bought a property there.

The sight must have been so lovely and her experience so fulfilling that she devoted a major portion of her subsequent TV show on Gumasa and its beach.

At Thursday’s press conference that she hosted for Liberal Party senatorial candidates Francis “Chiz” Escudero and Grace Poe—General Santos City Mayor Darlene Antonino was also in attendance—Aquino announced she was working on the purchase of a property in Gumasa and planned to develop it  with a French business partner.

She would not say what the cost was but added that she was hoping the deal would push through.

Aquino said that because she loved Gumasa so much, she would help promote tourism there and Mindanao in general.