{"id":4403,"date":"2012-03-15T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/temp-blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2013-10-10T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T16:52:15","slug":"playa-del-carmen-real-estate-%e2%80%93-history-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/playa-del-carmen-real-estate-%e2%80%93-history-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Playa del Carmen Real Estate \u00e2\u20ac\u201c History in Pictures!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you been in Playa del Carmen recently?\u00c2\u00a0 Chances are, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like most people who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been here, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll picture a reasonably sized town, with charming, low-rise Playa del Carmen condos<\/a>, tree-lined streets, nice hotels, and a vibrant culture for dining, art and nightlife.\u00c2\u00a0 Playa del Carmen real estate<\/a> is an ideal place for a vacation home or Mexico retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But Playa del Carmen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s growth, tourism, real estate and distinct European-like lifestyle are something of very recent decades.<\/p>\n

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Take a look at the follow picture.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you guess when it was?\u00c2\u00a0 If you know Playa del Carmen, can you guess where it was?\u00c2\u00a0 (Look carefully at the picture and make sure you guess before you look at the answer below!)<\/p>\n

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\"Wow!
Wow! Only Jungle and a Few Buses!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did you guess already?<\/p>\n

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Don’t cheat …<\/p>\n

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This picture was taken in the early 1980s, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the little park right beside the ferry dock to Cozumel.\u00c2\u00a0 It is now the heart of the booming town and the jungle you see out along the beachfront is now condos, hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants, neat little shops and, in general the thriving and vibrant area between Fifth Avenue and the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 The point jutting out in the distance is the site of the present-day Royal Hotel, where Constituyentes Ave. meets the beach, close to the Olmeca Head on Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n

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Were you right?<\/p>\n

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Now compare this to the following pictures:<\/p>\n

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\"Over
Over 20 years later …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This aerial picture is taken from the opposite angle; the Royal can be seen a bit more than half way up the picture (where the first dock is) and the park and older ferry dock from which the first picture was taken is about 3\/4 of the way up (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very short dock, hard to see in the picture.)<\/p>\n

\"The
The new beaches!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This picture shows the re-widened beaches after the special project was completed in 2010.<\/p>\n

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\"This
This is the same stetch as seen in the first picture!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This picture is the same stretch as the original picture from recent years, but taken from up above, and somewhat out to sea.<\/p>\n

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Have you been in Playa del Carmen recently?\u00c2\u00a0 Chances are, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like most people who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been here, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll picture a reasonably sized town, with charming, low-rise Playa del Carmen condos, tree-lined streets, nice hotels, and a vibrant culture for dining, art and nightlife.\u00c2\u00a0 Playa del Carmen real estate is an ideal place for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326,70],"tags":[453,1526],"class_list":{"0":"post-4403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mexico-beaches","7":"category-playa-del-carmen-real-estate","8":"tag-playa-del-carmen-beachfront","9":"tag-playa-del-carmen-real-estate","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}