The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) will move聽 its various units to聽 Manila, its first site when the agency was created in 1934.
Only the logistics unit is located on San Marcelino Street in Manila.聽 The corporate unit is in Mandaluyong City, while the charity assistance and medical services departments are in Quezon City.
鈥淭he PCSO is going home,鈥澛� vice chair and general manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II said, adding that all the units will transfer to San Marcelino after the construction of聽 new buildings.
Once completed, hopefully in 2017 or 2018, the entire complex in San Marcelino is expected to聽 cover around 36,000 square meters of floor area.
In the early years, all the PCSO units were located at the Soriano Building in Divisoria, near Claro M. Recto Street, in Manila. All the units moved to聽 San Marcelino in the 1960s, with the acquisition of a 1.19-hectare property there.
In 1998,聽 the units were聽 transferred to the Quezon Institute Complex in Quezon City because聽 it was more spacious. After the area聽 was declared unsafe, the units had to be transferred聽 to the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City.
The PCSO鈥檚 contract with the PICC lapsed on June 30, prompting the management to look for other locations.