New Hotel by the Malecon

I'm not sure it's going to be a hotel. I remember a taxi driver making a remark as we drove past the Jaragua. I thought he mentioned something about the building be sold as condos. Maybe Robert knows what is being built.

Is that site on Geo Wash w/ Maximo Gomez?

Because if it is, that site has been in perpetual construction (i.e., never seems to finish) since I lived in SD since the late 1990's. It was at first rumored that it would be a hotel (as if SD had to worry about hotel room capacity!), but then was to be a condo tower.
Regards,
Keith

What the Hillbilly heard

And it won't get finished either.
According to my sources, it seems that the building is off line and like the leaning Tower of Pisa, but without the bells!!

Apparently the footing was faulty and it is slightly tipped.,


Another triumph for greedy construction bosses.

HB

FYI: I should have stated the location of this mess. It is nearly on the corner of M?ximo G?mez and the Ave. George Washington

Malecon Center

The hotel is supposed to be a Holiday Inn Crowne plaza when I was there last during Semana Santa. It is disconcerting that reports state it wont be finished.

Malecon Center: money pit or money laundry?

Hillbilly mentioned greedy construction bosses. I don't doubt that played a part in this. I suspect money laundering for lack of any other logical explanation for the utter impracticality of the project. None of the projected uses: cinemas, retail commercial space, and modern condominiums, are in shorty supply or high demand. Moreover, were it ever to open at even half capacity the resulting traffic jams would be monstruous. Think about the access via an already crowded 4-lane road.

I can't think of a way to explain the unifinished mess other than an excuse to generate material and labor invoices and purchase orders with high levels of foreign exchange, a frequent indication of money laundering. The U.S. government threatened the DR's foreign aid and IMF access over this issue several years ago.

Two different things

The Malecon Center is one thing, and the unfinished hotel is another.

I believe the hotel that was going up close to the Maximo Gomez was to be called El Prado.

Human Folly - Variations on a Theme

jojocho said:

The Malecon Center is one thing, and the unfinished hotel is another.

I believe the hotel that was going up close to the Maximo Gomez was to be called El Prado.

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Ten and a half years later it's still dead in the water. I wonder if there are trees growing out of the floors.

Leaning tower, bad construction, title dispute?

Qu? un pais de maravillas. :laugh:

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Half a world away there's Burj Khalifa.

AE-if this is the building you're referring to, then I believe the answer is "yes".



This photo is from January of 2005, and from what I've heard it was left as you see it.

I recall there was at least one other thread on this subject years ago, so as this one is from 2002 I think it's safe to close it down. I don't think anyone really cares at this point.

CLOSED.