If you are in total control of the situation in the town you know what your plans for the future - you make the price on the land in the ghost town go down and then buy it at the simbolic price (very close to "0"). Next thing - you opent new bars and clubs at the same places - only they will belong to other people (team of new Mayor). They came for 8 years and they have to take all advantage of their position in town .... The history of busness shows us such examples of using information (the Mayor plans everything and knows what will be next), power (the Mayor has the right to do everything that is needed to achive the goal) and money.
What LAND are you talking about. The bars and shops on Pedro Clisante? In reality, the only places in town are Merenge Bar/Classico, Latino (Sosua Life), El flow, & Rumba. Sure there are plenty of other places along PC but all pretty small and in reality not competition for the main places. And the main four places I just mentioned are not going anywhere. The only other game in town is "La Passion" and his position is only getting better every minute all this nonsense is going on. Hey, good for him, he invested a lot of money in the place and at just the right time.
So then what, all the small bars and restaurants go out of business. The small hotels like New Garden, Tierra Linda, Colibri, Rancho, Yaroa, Europa, Velaria, Paraiso, Ochidee, etc. go out of business. OK, they are probably all owned by foreigners so they are going to leave these investments and sell them for nothing to the "team of the new Mayor". Now what happens when the peripheral businesses that are owned and run by the locals go out of business. The colmados, call centers, car rental places, money changers, pharmacies, internet centers, lanudry centers, gymnasiums, salons, nail centers, furniture stores, computer stores, hardware stores, etc., etc., etc. Remember these are the people who put the mayor in office. Then, according to your post #72, the mayor's office "get's rid of Los Charamicos and Las Piedras", which by the way also helped put her in office. This will make for some pretty ****ed-off locals who just elected this mayor.
So now Sosua is left as an abandoned ghost-town, it had a lousy reputation before all this, but now it is a ghost-town with a lousy reputation, terrific. Now, the "team of the new Mayor" who supposedly bought all this "LAND"? for near zero, with their great entrepreneural wisdom, will now turn Sosua into a prosperous town and as you say in your post #72 "the new Sosua will appear - those land lots will be golden." I would love to see one example of a tourist city in this country that deteriorated into a ghost town and was then resurected into a prosperous, functioning city.
Sorry, not happening, not in this lifetime.
If that is really the plan they have for Sosua well, see my original post #3 ---Have you read the Avianus fable "Killing the goose that laid the golden eggs."???
Let's just hope that within time things will play out a little less dramatic. Let's hope once they realize all these dramatic steps are just that "drama", and really doing nothing but ruining the businesses that are already here they will take a different course. Merengue Bar/Classico already have taken down those ridiculous curtains, did'nt even last two days. This BS hopefully won't go on for too long.
Sosua is in need of change, but certain specific elements need to be targeted. Arresting all unescorted women on the streets and forcing the clubs on PC to enclose themselves behind walls is just foolish.
That's just my opinion, I may be wrong.
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