{"id":16905,"date":"2021-04-15T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16905"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:21:31","slug":"bloomberry-puts-back-opening-date-for-philippines-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bloomberry-puts-back-opening-date-for-philippines-ir","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberry puts back opening date for Philippines IR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bloomberry Resorts has put back the opening date for its Philippines IR to 2023 after construction was halted due to Covid-19 measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Bloomberry Resorts has confirmed that its Solaire North IR project,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/work-on-bloomberrys-new-philippines-ir-restarts\">which was originally scheduled for completion by 2022<\/a>, will now not open until 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Solaire North IR project in Quezon City will be <strong>Bloomberry&#8217;s second IR in the Philippines<\/strong>, after <strong>Solaire Resort and Casino in Para\u00f1aque City<\/strong>. The project has faced <strong>delays in construction <\/strong>because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enrique Razon Jr., chief executive officer (CEO) of Bloomberry Resorts, said<strong> the IR will be finished in time for a potentially strong economic recovery <\/strong>on the return of international travel and tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;The further easing of quarantine restrictions and the<strong> implementation of travel bubbles within the region will be indispensable to our near- term recovery<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Bloomberry saw <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bloomberry-returns-to-positive-ebitda\">a notable improvement in operating revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020<\/a>\u00a0with an\u00a0<strong>adjusted property EBITDA of PHP129.3bn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also reported&nbsp;<strong>full-year net revenue of PHP17.8bn<\/strong>, down 62 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solaire Resort and Casino remains closed until further notice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solaire Resort and Casino<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manila-casinos-close-until-april-4-as-covid-19-cases-rise\">remains closed<\/a> in compliance with the enhanced community quarantine measures implemented by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Philippines&#8217; president Rodrigo Duterte <\/strong>has placed Metro Manila <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manila-eases-covid-19-restrictions-but-casinos-remain-closed\" target=\"_blank\">under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) until April 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberry Resorts has put back the opening date for its Philippines IR to 2023 after construction was halted due to Covid-19 measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Bloomberry Resorts has postponed the opening of its Solaire North Integrated Resort in Quezon City to 2023, citing construction delays caused by Covid-19 measures. This second IR project in the Philippines is now anticipated to launch amidst a projected economic recovery driven by renewed international travel. Concurrently, the existing Solaire Resort and Casino remains closed due to ongoing government-mandated quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila.","focusai_entities":"Bloomberry Resorts, Enrique Razon Jr., Rodrigo Duterte","focusai_location":"Philippines, Quezon City, Para\u00f1aque City, Metro Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Project Timeline","query":"What specific milestones and revised capital expenditure forecasts are now associated with the Solaire North IR project, given the 2023 opening target?"},{"label":"Philippines Market Recovery","query":"How do Bloomberry's revised operational timelines and the CEO's outlook on 'travel bubbles' align with broader government and industry projections for GGR recovery in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,158,16333],"tags":[15417,23632,23907],"class_list":["post-16905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-bloomberry-resorts","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16911,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions\/16911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}