Massive New Costa Rica Real Estate Development Opposite Daniel Oduber Airport in Liberia

A private company is to build a US$300 million project in Liberia with condos, two bank centers, six office buildings, warehouses, a 200 room hotel and a hospital. Neighbours are getting ready to try and cope with the needs of this gigantic new project.

This project is called Solarium and it is being developed in a 99 acre field and will also include a trade free zone dedicated to professional services companies, warehouses, a gas station and about 800 condos in the north western corner of Costa Rica.

The project is run by DWL, a private company owned by the Costa Rican Jeffrey Weisleder, with collaboration of Edica, and both will invest $300 million in infrastructure.

“Guanacaste’s development is tourism oriented, but we have been forgetting the services sector. We want this project to complement the actual offer of health-related and others services”, said Silviana Batalla, manger of Solarium.

Batalla pointed that the whole infrastructure won’t be ready before six years, but some stages of it will by 2007.

“The ‘offi-warehouses’ construction started in May 2006 and should be done by September, while the hotel construction will start in February, and will be inaugurated by December”, affirmed Batalla.

According to her, the opening of Solarium will create 15,000 new jobs, from professionals to security guards.

“The Guanacaste people must get prepared for this growth; if they don’t do it now, people from San Jose will take those jobs”, said Batalla.

Local Comments About this Huge New Project:

Due to this project, both neighbours and local organizations are getting ready for the challenges it will bring.

“We must be careful with who we hire, since this means an increase in the services offered to the foreign population”, affirmed Mario Cespedes, CEO of the Tourism Chamber of Guanacaste (TCG).

Besides other needs, Cespedes insisted in improving the roads quality. That should be a number one priority he insisted.

Meanwhile, Gadi Amith, member of the Organization for the Environment Preservation, said that that project would pose a hazard for the water however, Batalla pointed out that they would have three wells for water.

Public opinion is divided, while some people like the secretary Silvia Cruz thinks that the project will be a good opportunity for the young people, Willber Villalobos, a student, remarked that he was concerned about the environmental destruction that may be caused by this enormous new project.

Our thanks to our friends at La Nación – Costa Rica’s largest Spanish circulation newspaper for their permission use this article.

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Andrew Makarik

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