Author: Alberto (---.rdns.blackberry.net)
Date: 06-19-10 08:58
Ok Doug, so you are saying that there is fear that if Costa Bonita, it's restaurant, or anything related to the CONDO becomes a success, then other big developments will try to imitate Costa Bonita's success story? You are stating that Culebra's infrastructure is so weak and deteriorated that a "fully active" Costa Bonita will cause its collapse? What is it that Costa consumes that becomes such a burden to the island? Power and water?
Well, Costa Bonita has been fully active for a long time now. To my knowledge, no power or water outage has ever been caused by Costa Bonita. I've never seen traffic in the road to Zoni either. Do you really think that 41 clusters of second home 1 bedroom units (with an occupancy rate of less than 30%) can have such impact? I hardly doubt it.
I can understand the fear of future development in Culebra...I fear it myself. I have nightmares of Culebra becoming ilke Charlotte Amalie. But the fight against development should have nothing to do with Costa Bonita. The developper actually lost a lot of money and ended up in bankrupcy...so if anything, it should be a lesson of how difficult it is to make a profitable development on Culebra. With the complex already built and fully operational, the best possible scenario for Culebra is to have a well maintained Condo...which, as in the case of any other second-home complex, will be less than 30% occupied year round. There should be no fear in that.
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