OFW entrepreneur builds hotel and convention complex

By Nash B. Maulana

COTABATO CITY - The Al-Nor Hotel and Convention Center is halfway into building a P1 billion resort complex integrating its elegant hotel rooms, fine dining, franchised coffee shops, a convention center, native and oriental food shops, and movie houses into a network of mix-used buildings.

Owner Hadji Kahar Nul, a former overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia, said an on-going expansion southwest of the complex’s entrance gate translates to 216 hotel rooms which will be open for reser-

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vations and accommodation by mid-2023.

The extension stands on a 2,000 square-meter northeast adjacent area from its main one-hectare commercial complex.

Adding to the 8-storey hotel expansion is a 260unit condominium-type apartment development to be built on then former Episcopal Church estate, northeast of the Al-Nor Complex’s exit gate, along Sinsuat Avenue.

Nul said construction of the hotel may reach over P200 million since most of the finishing materials are imported.

He advised fellow entrepreneurs to refrain from getting loans on dead investments, instead, his fellow Moro businessmen should put money on income-generating ventures that generates employment, as well.

demic, but managed to keep the second one as the building owner was considerate enough to give her a 20-percent rebate on lease. Those times were difficult for everybody else, she knew that, but it was harder for those who have other family baggage like the battle she fought as her husband struggled with cancer.

Sundays are sacred days for her. This is the only day in a week where she can spend time with her kids on malling adventures, lunching out and shopping.

That is the single, most important rule her kids agreed on when she put up her spa—to spend Sundays together. And she’s holding out her part of the bargain pretty well except on instances when really important clients are insistent for a procedure that fend off a few hours of family bonding time. Sunday dinners are well spent with her parents and siblings.

Gonzalez admits she’s a travel addict in the same degree that she’s addicted to massage. Before owning a spa, back to the time when she still worked at Tamayo’s Catering as one of the senior management executives, she frequented the spas along the stretch of Banawe Street for a relaxing massage, before heading home. Othel V. Campos

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