On the land-claims front, there have been a number of cases where aboriginal insistence that their rights be recognised before industrial development proceeds has led to agreements on job creation, revenue-sharing, training and land ownership.

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Instead, the studio chooses to work closely with private developers, like Procisa, their collaborator on La Finca and their neighbor in the development's industrial park, where A-cero-designed glass-cube offices are set off by external stairwells of swirling concrete.

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The Ayala group, for example, is still awaiting a contract for a railway connecting their property in the Makati business district to an area south where they have more than 4, 000 hectares of residential, commercial and industrial development.

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