Experience excellence: Torre Lorenzo makes high-end accessible to everyone

Visiting a new place is both humbling and powerful. Humbling because you realize you really should take negative press and hearsay with a grain of salt; powerful because once you realize you don’t get the whole truth from (sensationalized) news, your soul opens up to new discoveries, experiences, and friends that change you forever.

Such was the case with this visit of ours to Tierra Davao in Davao City and Dusit Thani Lubi Plantation Resort in Davao de Oro. Two days and two nights with President and CEO Tomas P. Lorenzo, COO Cathy Casares-Ko, and their Marketing team were enough for us to see how they are upgrading the lifestyle scene, boosting tourism, and uplifting the economy in the region.

This perfectly aligns with Mr. Lorenzo’s vision of elevating lifestyles for everyone, from north to south. It is this vision that guided their planning and strategic partnerships which, in turn, contributed to TLDC’s success and growth in their first 25 years. Their Davao developments play a key role in shifting their journey to include hospitality, and they’re just getting started.

This is what you call driving impact.

Tierra Davao: Capturing the vastness of Davao in an integrated-use development

“Can you imagine how big Davao really is?” asked COO Cathy as we waited for our luggage at Davao Airport. “There’s Davao City, and around it are Davao Occidental, Davao Del Sur, Davao Del Norte, Davao De Oro, and Davao Oriental,” she continued, counting on her fingers.

Geography being one of this writer’s weakest points, we immediately Googled Davao, and took particular note of its shape on the map. Upon learning more about Tierra Davao, we realized that, upon completion, its shape will actually mirror the shape of all the Davao provinces around the Davao Gulf.

(When we get to the part where we understand how CEO Tomas P. Lorenzo’s mind works, we will understand that — deliberate or not — this is all by design.)

Tierra Davao is where the TLDC-Dusit developments in Davao City will be, as well as the upcoming Crown Residences. At its full development, Tierra Davao will be a P3.2 billion integrated-use development with two residential towers called the Crown Residences and the Crest Suites, a future office and commercial tower, anchored by the dusitD2 Hotel and Dusit Thani Residence.