Inside Asian Gaming

IAG DEC 2019年12月 亞博匯 36 FEATURES E dwin D. Mendoza is quick to point out that D’Heights Resort & Casino was given its name for a reason. “It’s actually a play on words,” the Director of D’Heights parent, Korean-owned Donggwang Clark Corporation, explains. “It’s like ‘The Heights.’ “Why the D? Because we are owned by Donggwang. Why heights? Because when you go to our clubhouse it is 1,750 feet above sea level so we would like to make it clear that we have the highest point in Clark while philosophically aiming to reach greater heights, “So it’s Donggwang Heights, which means we’re aiming for something really, really big and I think we’re on our way to doing that.” Granted its provisional casino license on 12 July 2017 and having held its soft opening almost two years to the day later on 3 July 2019, D’Heights – also known as E dwin D. Mendoza很快就指出了D’Heights Resort & Casino得名的原因。 這位D’Heights的母公司、由韓國人擁有的Dong- gwang Clark Corporation的董事解釋道：「這其實是一 個文字遊戲。」 「名字的讀音就像『The Heights』一樣。」 「那為甚麼是要寫D呢？就是因為我們由Donggwang擁有 呀。至於heights，就是因為當你去到我們那離海平面1,750呎高的 俱樂部時，我們希望清楚地表達我們坐擁著在克拉克的最高點， 並且在理念上來說希望達至更高境界。」 「所以，這其實就是Donggwang Heights，表達著我們的願 景非常、非常之宏大，而我們也正向其邁進。」 於2017年7月12日獲得臨時娛樂場牌照，並在2019年7月3 日，即取得牌照後差不多兩年開始試業的D’Heights，亦名為Sun Valley，是現在於克拉克的新晉娛樂場營運商裏最大的。其在克拉 克國際機場的西面擁有一塊土地，佔地309公頃。 這個規模宏大的開發企劃，耗資高達5億美元，將會於2022年 全面投入運作，現在已經包括了擁有兩個18洞高爾夫球場的俱樂 部Clark Sun Valley Golf & Country Club、有310間客房的希爾頓 酒店、一間為幼稚園至高中學生提供比照新加坡水準教育的新加 坡學校，還有5幢住宅大樓分別會於不同時期完工，以及一間在未 來數個月內全面運作後，保證會是世界級的娛樂場。 這個物業也會是國內兩個菲律賓離岸博彩營運商(Philip- pine Offshore Gaming Operators, POGO)中心其中一個的所在 地：集中了八幢中型建築—即六幢藍白色的宿舍以及兩幢棕白色 的辦公室大樓—可以容納大約6,000名中國員工。 而在更長遠的角度而言，發展D’Heights的願景中將包括另 外兩間酒店—擁有350間客房的凱悅酒店(Hyatt Regency)，以及 Sun Valley – is currently the largest of Clark’s emerging casino operators with its slice of land just west of Clark International Airport measuring 309 hectares. The expansive development, set to be fully functional by 2022 at a cost of US$500 million, already boasts two 18-hole golf courses at its Clark Sun Valley Golf & Country Club, a 310-room Hilton Hotel, a Singapore School offering Singaporean education standards for students between Kindergarten and Year 12, five towers of condominium towers at various stages of completion and a casino that promises to be world class once fully operational in the coming months. It is also home to one the country’s two Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) hubs: a cluster of eight medium-sized buildings – six blue and white dormitories for residential and two brown and white office buildings – housing around 6,000 Chinese employees.