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The were able to get some World Bank money and Royal Caribbean to home port at least one of their ship there , so they must be serious.
Its all part of Santo Domingo's largest development, and will also include what would be, at 900 rooms each, Santo Domingo's two largest hotels. An additional one, at around 600 rooms, would be the third largest..
Santo Domingo.- The machine which for months has been observed along the Dominican capital?s Malecon seaside boulevard, near the smaller of its 2 obelisks... [is conducting] geotechnical studies prior to building several structures for the tourism project in that area.
Sans Souci Port general director Randolfo Rijo said the machine take samples from the seafloor prior to the construction of a breakwater and a marina. "It?s (the machine) simply extracting to see what there is at the marine bottom, what is the resistance of the bottom, it?s exclusively for taking samples."
The 550 yacht marina will start at the breakwater now in from of the obelisk and continues eastward, near the statue of the priest Montesinos.
In a statement Sans Souci said it contracted the special machine from a company that conducts geotechnical studies.
Rijo said construction of the marina and the new breakwater will begin at year end.
The were able to get some World Bank money and Royal Caribbean to home port at least one of their ship there , so they must be serious.
Its all part of Santo Domingo's largest development, and will also include what would be, at 900 rooms each, Santo Domingo's two largest hotels. An additional one, at around 600 rooms, would be the third largest..
Sans Souci Ports, S.A.Inversiones Tur?stica Sans Souc?, concesionario de Puertos de Santo Domingo, invertir? alrededor de US$700 millones en la construcci?n de grandes proyectos tur?sticos, para visitantes extranjeros y nacionales, que conllevar?n al incremento del turismo en la capital. La inversi?n ser? en un per?odo de cuatro a cinco a?o.
Los gestores de la obra, que ya han invertido US$50 millones en el puerto Sans Souc?, anunciaron que en los pr?ximos meses levantar?n en el entorno de la parte Este del R?o Ozama una marina deportiva, con capacidad para unos 500 amarres y posibilidad de recibir embarcaciones de hasta 140 pies, as? como dos hoteles con 900 habitaciones y un centro de convenciones y otro de por lo menos 600 habitaciones, un casino y apartamentos.
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