The company started as a single proprietorship known as TOTO Trading and General Services which engages in the trading of construction materials and specializing as a finishing contractor for residential as well as commercial building. It has started its modest operations in 1987 as a finishing contractor for residential houses in well-known villages in Metro Manila until such time when the company was able to make a major breakthrough when they got a contract with ERINCOR of its latter project at MARINA bay area now known as ASIA World City, as finishing contractor mostly in the area of marble installation, pebble washout, plastering, mactan stone installation and masonry works.

Upon completion of the job with ERINCOR – Marina Bay Homes Project Stage I, with thirty seven (37) units of townhouses, there was an enormous demand of the Marina Bay area. The company thus decided to incorporate on October 26, 1989 now known as FIL-GARTE CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION duly registered with the Security and Exchange Commission on October 1989.