A report in El Siglo newspaper says that three European firms are interested in building the eight apartment towers that will lodge the 5,000 athletes coming for the Pan Am games in 2003 and that later be sold to individuals. The companies would finance the buildings, relieving the Dominican government of the investment. The DR government is the owner of the land where the village would be built. The land was secured in a swap for government shares in the Sociedad Industrial Dominicana that was sold to Unilever corporation.
