{"id":102884,"date":"2017-08-21T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=102884"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:17:10","slug":"blue-mall-opens-in-punta-cana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/08\/21\/blue-mall-opens-in-punta-cana\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Mall opens in Punta Cana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102870\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102870\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blue-Mall-Punta-Cana-Presidency-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Danilo Medina was in Punta Cana on Thursday, 17 August 2017 for the formal opening of the Blue Mall Punta Cana. The mall is five minutes away from the Punta Cana International Airport, at the intersection of Boulevard Tur\u00edstico and Carretera Juanillo.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Mall is a joint venture of the Punta Cana Group and Grupo Velutini. The architectural and engineering firms of Diana Dalmasy and Imbert Dominguez (Oscar Imbert and Eduardo Imbert) are responsible for the construction.<\/p>\n<p>President Danilo Medina attended the inauguration with Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Peralta, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda, Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo and Foreign Relations Minister Miguel Vargas.<\/p>\n<p>Several banks for weeks have been offering services at the mall. On 28 July 2017, a concert with Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Don Omar inaugurated the 3,000-person capacity amphitheater. The theater is also set up for shows with dancing waters.<\/p>\n<p>The clothing store Zara is opening the Spanish chain\u2019s largest store in Latin America at the Blue Mall Punta Cana.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Mall Punta Cana has 18,000 square meters of commercial space. The president of the company, Venezuelan Luis Emilio Velutini says the mall seeks to attract buyers that live in the nearby La Romana, Higuey and Punta Cana areas, in addition to Dominican and foreign tourists in the Punta Cana area.<\/p>\n<p>A first Blue Mall opened in Santo Domingo at the corner of Winston Churchill and Gustavo Mej\u00eda Ricart.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/danilo-medina-asiste-inauguracion-bluemall-puntacana-se-generan-3500-empleos\" target=\"_blank\">Presidencia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/showthread.php\/161594-Blue-Mall\" target=\"_blank\">DR1 Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 August 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Danilo Medina was in Punta Cana on Thursday, 17 August 2017 for the formal opening of the Blue Mall Punta Cana. The mall is five minutes away from the Punta Cana International Airport, at the intersection of Boulevard Tur\u00edstico and Carretera Juanillo. Blue Mall is a joint venture of the Punta Cana Group and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/08\/21\/blue-mall-opens-in-punta-cana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}