Looking for “the ultimate vacation experience of Mexico”?
Well, Spanish and U.S. interests are teaming up to build it along the Sea of Cortez, in the southern tip of Baja California Sur.
It’s called Cabo Cortes, and it’ll spread over 9,400 acres roughly 40 miles northwest of Los Cabos International Airport. According to its promotional materials, Cabo Cortes will offer vacationers an experience that “will be comparable or better than that of the best resort communities in North America,” with “second homes equal to anything the world can offer.”
Clearly, the people behind Cabo Cortes know which buttons to push. Now if they can just find some home buyers and a boatload of money to fund the construction.
Cabo Cortes is being co-developed by Hansa Baja Investments, an entity led by Hansa Urbana Group and Goodman Real Estate. When it’s done, it’ll have more than 13,000 housing units, several hotels (more than 3,000 total rooms), something like 2.5 million square feet of office and retail space, marinas, beach clubs, spas, a private “jet port,” schools, medical facilities, and three to five golf courses.
Is that what the publicity people mean when they say Cabo Cortes will have “a deep connection to the essential part of Mexico”?
Two of the community’s golf courses will be of the “signature” variety. The first one will be designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
Goodman Real Estate is a Seattle, Washington-based firm that owns and/or manages more than 15,000 apartments and 2.5 million square feet of office and retail space in the United States and Canada. One of its subsidiaries, Triad Development, owns Hiddenbrook Golf Course in Vallejo, California.
Hansa Urbana is based in Alicante, Spain and has offices in Madrid, Barcelona, and five other Spanish cities. It developed Alicante Golf Club in Alicante and Novo Carthago Beach & Golf Resort in suburban Cartagena, Spain. The latter has a pair of 18-hole, Jones-designed golf courses.
CaboCortes.com, GoodmanRE.com
Monday, April 5, 2010
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This project is pretty much delayed. A victim of its own ambition and the global economy. I am a broker in Los Cabos and the developer way overpaid for the land at the top of the market. I do not believe that the Americans are still involved. I think the land needs to be purchased there at a low cost and then a low density, exclusive development could proceed. As it stands, the current plan for the site is for 30,000 units. Which is laughable. But hey, they have a nice website.
ReplyDeletewhat isn't mentioned is the negative impact this development will have on one of north america's largest coral reefs. It is supposedly "protected" but it seems the mexican government sold out.
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Don't we have already enough golf resorts around the area ?
ReplyDeleteShame on you, shame on the government on selling out our precious country..shame on those developers...and all those who are destroying our world because of being money hungry.
Isn't just looking at Santa Maria Bay and Chileno Bay resort enough ?
You guy's are sick !
The project will be amazing and truly a wonderful destination for everyone to enjoy.It will bring many jobs to the locals.Thanks Hansa Urbana we welcome you.Please hurry
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