San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park is the marketing name given to the multiple use site under development by the

Manila Jockey Club The Manila Jockey Club, Inc. (MJC) is a horse racing institution in the Philippines. One of the oldest race clubs in the Asia-Pacific region, the club was established in 1867 in Manila and is based in Carmona, Cavite. It is also a member of the Asi ...

Investments Corp. in

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. It takes its name from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome, a horse racetrack that stood on the site from 1912 to 2003. Currently, the site includes the SM City San Lazaro shopping center, the two-tower Vertex office complex, the three-tower Celadon Park and Celadon Residences, and the five-tower Avida Towers San Lazaro condominium complex. It has been declared a tourism economic zone with

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component in 2009.

Location

San Lazaro is located in the northern portion of Manila within the city district of Santa Cruz between the

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area and the

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. It is bounded by

Tayuman Street Tayuman Street is a four-lane east-west street in northern Manila, Philippines. It stretches from the former San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district. The street is designated as part of Circumferential Road 2. ...

and Consuelo Street on the south, the Philippine National Railways (PNR) line on Antipolo Street on the north, Elias Street to the east, and Felix Huertas Road to the west which runs parallel to

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. The site is close to major Manila landmarks such as the

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, the

Archdiocesan Shrine of Espiritu Santo Espiritu Santo Parish, now known as the Archdiocesan Shrine of Espiritu Santo, is a Roman Catholic parish belonging to the Archdiocese of Manila that is located at 1912 Rizal Avenue corner Tayuman Street, Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. It wa ...

, the Manila Chinese Cemetery, and the San Lazaro compound which houses the

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head office, Hospital de San Lazaro and

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History

The land the development sits on was the site of the San Lazaro Hippodrome, home of the Manila Jockey Club, the first racing club in

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established in 1867. It was built in 1912 on the former friar estate known during the Spanish colonial period as the ''Hacienda de Mayhaligue''. It later came to be the known as the ''Hacienda de San Lazaro'' being home of the ''Hospital de San Lazaro'', the hospital for lepers administered by the Franciscan religious order since 1785. The site itself was the location of the ''Monasterio de Santa Clara'' which the Manila Jockey Club purchased during the early days of the

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in 1900. Prior to the construction of the hippodrome at San Lazaro, the club held its races at the Santa Mesa Hippodrome in

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. In 2001, the Manila Jockey Club entered into a joint venture agreement with SM Prime Holdings for conversion of of property into a shopping mall. It also signed a venture with

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for office and residential development in the property in 2007. The racing club moved to its new location at the

San Lazaro Leisure Park The San Lazaro Leisure Park, officially known as the San Lazaro Leisure and Business Park is a mixed-used venue which features a racetrack in Carmona, Cavite, Philippines. It is the home of the Manila Jockey Club. The leisure park occupies a lan ...

in Carmona,

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in 2003.

Winford Hotel and Casino

An P8 billion hotel casino was opened in January 2016 within the San Lazaro tourism park named Winford Hotel and Casino (formerly ''Winford Leisure and Entertainment Complex''). It is anchored on a 22-story five-star hotel building with 128 all-suite rooms and close to of casino floor. The casino is operated by the

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(PAGCOR) under the terms of the license issued to Manila Jockey Club in 2009. The complex also contains facilities for meetings and events targeted to the affluent

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community in the area of Central Manila.

Transportation

San Lazaro is near major transportation arteries. It is accessible from downtown Manila via

(Radial Road 9) and Lacson Avenue (

Circumferential Road 2 Circumferential Road 2 (C-2), informally known as the C-2 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the second beltway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the districts of Tondo, Santa Cruz, Sam ...

). In the future, the Metro Manila Skyway will link the area with the

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and

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enhancing accessibility in the area. It is served by both the Tayuman Station and Blumentritt Station of the

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and the Blumentritt railway station of PNR.

References

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Location

History

Winford Hotel and Casino

Transportation

See also

References