Mega Pacific Plaza CIMA Hospital And Retired residential Community Begins Construction

Mega Pacific Plaza will inject new resources

BUZZ | COZTA RICA | AUGUST 14, 2009 AT 10:25 AM

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Investment of $ 15 million complex that will come into implementation phase.

Private equity fund Emerge joined work located in Guanacaste with a 30%.

Pacific Plaza, a complex where the facilities are located in the Guanacaste Cima Hospital will cease to be a project on paper to be running after the addition of new partners.

The Fund Emerge from the fund manager of Aureus Capital investment into the project as a shareholder with a stake of 30%. Ignacio Esquivel also joined as a shareholder.

These resources will be used in a first phase for developing a master plan, identifying and obtaining all environmental impact studies, municipal permits and construction drawings and design. This phase will take an investment of $ 15 million is.

Once ready to begin works, E3-Corp, which is responsible for signing the financial structuring of complex banking seek resources for the commencement of the works is estimated to earthwork will start in March next year.

This will start the first phase of this project include development of a hospital administered by the Consortium under the International Hospital CIMA Guanacaste, and a tower with a shopping mall doctors in their first floor. It will include the infrastructure and landscaping.

Pacific Plaza Costa Rica is a joint campus that will involve hospital, residential facility for retired trade. Be raised in an area measuring 22.2 hectares, with the signing Proexsa led by Lou Aguilera.

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COSTA RICA HAS GREAT PLANS FOR YOUR RETIREMENT

Costa Rica has a solution for the United States' aging baby boomer population.


Send them south where they can enjoy a sunny climate, top medical services, a lower cost of living and a stunning natural landscape.

Seven government agencies are collaborating in an effort to develop retirement communities in the so-called Switzerland of the Americas. Launching a promotional campaign and partnering with private developers, they hope to make their country the next “retiree-friendly” Sunshine State.

“This represents a bigger potential for Costa Rica than recreational tourism represented 25 years ago,” said developer Lou Aguilera, who has spearheaded the initiative from the private sector. “The greying of America is irreversible and Costa Rica is in a position to service this population.”

Aguilera expects to break ground on his own retirement community, a joint project with CIMA hospital, in Guanacaste in May. It would be the first community to include extensive medical services and one of the few of its kind existing to date.

Jorge Woodbridge, competitivity minister, estimates the country can attract 10,000 retirees a year from countries like the United States, Canada and Spain, a population which could contribute more than $340 million annually to the local economy and generate 40,000 jobs.

He said promoting Costa Rica as a retirement destination would be building on a pre-existing niche.

Already the country has three internationally-recognized private hospitals; it's a top destination for medical tourism; the climate is cool and favorable along the country's spine and it's a short plane ride away from many destinations in the United States.

“Costa Rica poses significant competitive advantages in positioning itself as a retirement destination,” Woodbridge said.

The consortium of government agencies, which is calling itself Clúster Retirados, is promoting destinations in the interior of the country for further development, such as Lake Arenal, Miramar, Parque de la Amistad and the volcanoes of Guanacaste.

“The great majority of people (who we hope to attract) are active people that look for things to do,” said Marco Vinicio Ruiz, foreign trade minister. “We want to offer them a better environment than what they have … We want to include them in countrywide initiatives, in issues of research and development and ways in which they can collaborate with small or medium-sized businesses.”

He added, “I see this as an enormous opportunity to collaborate.”

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Whisper Of The Past, The Pre Colombian Indians of Lake Arenal

On September 18, 1502 on Columbus’s last voyage he landed on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica where he encountered very diverse and autonomous groups of Indians all with distinct cultures and customs. Estimates vary greatly but somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago it is said that Indians settled this area having crossed the Bering Strait land bridge called Beringia sometime around 15,000 years ago and eventually migrated all the way to the tip of South America.

It is estimated that the Indian population at the time of Columbus’s discovery was somewhere in the area of 20,000. In the space of a few short years, as in all the lands the Spanish touched and conquered the populations were decimated by disease, warfare and slavery. It is estimated of this number that only one percent of the original pure blooded Indians remain in Costa Rica in small reserves throughout the country mainly in the far south and far north.

In the northern area immediately surrounding what is now known as Lake Arenal and to the north lived the tribe called the Maleku. These were said to be an aggressive warlike people who sometimes lived in conflict with their neighboring tribes,

They had several sacred sites in the area including the Arenal Volcano and Lake Arenal, which was one third its present size at that time. The Lake offered great opportunity for the Indians to fish as well as the great diversity of foods and wildlife which were plentiful.

As an amateur archeologist my entire life and having several collections in museums in the United States and the Caribbean I am extremely interested in pre Colombian Indians in this area and spend the little spare time I have combing the shores of the lake for artifacts. The level of the lake can vary 30 feet or more depending on the needs for hydro electricity and agriculture and the best time to look is when the lake is at its lowest. This exposes the wave lapped shores which have eroded to expose a tremendous variety of shards and entire pieces of pottery.

Aside from household and ceremonial pottery, there are gorgeous jade pieces and sometimes even gold.

There is one island in particular near the western shore of the lake known as the island of the Tombs because on this small spit of land are at least 30 graves, a few of which have been dug by grave robbers, but most are untouched.

The Costa Rican Government is very concerned about private collection, ownership or sale of any of its historical treasures, unlike many of the Caribbean and latin countries and it is illegal to own or collect any artifacts.



To be sure there are lots of private collections out there and in my opinion it would be far better for the government to permit collection of these artifacts if they were registered with the government and publicly displayed with the express stipulation that they belong to the people of Costa Rica and may not be sold. This would open the doors to all those people who have sometimes extensive collections and would allow not only the people of Costa Rica but also the tourist industry to view this rich heritage, other than in Government owned museums.

So when you are in the Lake Area I will be happy to point you in the right direction, even hire a boat and send you on a very interesting tour.

Happy Hunting