I’ve decided to start a new series on this blog; Spectacular Transformations! the Playa del Carmen real estate market and other expat communities in Mexico have grown rapidly over the past few years. Rapid growth means rapid change. In some cases, there have bee spectacular transformations of communities, city blocks or even individual properties.
Some places, not that long ago were streets that you avoided walking down (not because of safety, simply because they were so … visually unappealing, shall we say?) In some cases, the road had just never been constructed, and muddy holes and stagnant puddles made the road impassable in car or walking. There were also those properties which people either didn’t keep up or the original villagers where hanging onto for some reason or another, maintaining their huts or half-built homes.
The spectacular part; many of these areas have been completely turned around. Some creative developer or highly motivated and imaginative individual investor picked up an area or property like this and made something absolutely beautiful out of it.
Stories like these can be a real inspiration to buyers, showing how much potential can be hidden in an outwardly unappealing property, or how a neighborhood can turn around for the better virtually over night.
My first topic is a brand new hotel called Paradisus Playa del Carmen la Perla. The hotel is absolutely beautiful, an upscale all inclusive resort right on the beach surrounded on most sides by lush, green nature.
You would never guess that this hotel is located on what not that long ago was an empty unused tract of land between an abandoned beach and Playa del Carmen’s low-end neighborhood, which has at times been called a shanty town. (Partly because of the existence of Paradisus La Perla, this community, called Colosio, may be undergoing a transformation of its own; savvy investors have been looking at Mexico homes for sale in the neighborhood, but that’s a topic for another post.)
The beachfront is now home to beautiful lounge chairs and canopy beds shaded by palms. along side either side of the hotel there is a newly and beautifully constructed stamped-concrete beach access with a pretty pergola with showers to wash the sand off after leaving the beach. Behind the hotel, the street bordering the low-end community has been paved with a bike lane, decorative street lamps and benches and palm trees have been installed. Nice restaurants and shops seem to be appearing.
The space that the hotel is on, along with the walkways on all sides of it are entirely unrecognizable from what they were before; this is a good change, and it is spectacular!
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