Travellers International Hotel Group, Inc., the joint venture between Philippine-listed Alliance Global Group, Inc. (AGI) and Genting Hong Kong Limited, will continue the construction of the Westside City casino resort in early 2019, to meet a scheduled 2021 opening.

The planned resort, located in Entertainment City in Parañaque, Metro Manila, had previously been set for opening in 2019, but Travellers, which currently operates Resorts World Manila, postponed this back in June 2016 in order to modify the project design. In February, affiliate Megaworld announced $2.3 billion in capital expenditure to develop the 31-hectare property, which will have about 1,500 hotel rooms.

In an interview with reporters on the sidelines of an AGI event, AGI CEO Kevin Tan mentioned that construction of Westside City will be continuing after an upgrade of its plan, to focus on more entertainment activities.

Local news outlet BusinessWorld quoted Tan as saying, “We’re going to be focusing quite a lot on entertainment because we discussed in the past we want to create this sort of ‘Broadway of Asia’ concept there. So we’re putting together theaters in one, because it’s growing and it’s fragmented all over so we’re looking at ways to integrate it into one development where we can put theaters and entertainment facilities.”