Hard Rock Cafe and Starbucks announce new openings in Costa Rica │ costadevelopers.com

Costa Rica has been a point of attraction for hundreds of franchises from different parts of the world, especially in the food industry.

Hard Rock is a chain of restaurants that are open in Costa Rica. The restaurant will open its first business in the Central American country after making an investment of $3.2 million in the city of Heredia, 20 minutes from the capital San Jose.

Local to be located at the Wyndham San Jose Herradura Hotel in the canton of Belén promises to be at the height of the restaurants in the chain around the world.

The new Hard Rock will have space for 310 people and an area of concerts for 800 more. The arrival of the company in Costa Rica generate employment to about 100 people, while they already received 3500 job applications.

"We had 3,500 job seekers. Of those, 106 people we employ and will soon move on to 95. The subject of the service is really important to us. Other franchises do not have more than 40 employees" said Gustavo Araya partner of the daily La Nacion.

The employer emphasized that the concept of the Hard Rock Cafe is a family restaurant, themed around the music of any genre.

Hard Rock will not only have a place in the greater Metropolitan Area, but that they also plan to open a restaurant in the area of the North Pacific, especially for tourists visiting the region.

Playas del Coco and tamarind are places that currently tested for the opening of the second restaurant, but the place will be smaller, only for 100 people.

Starbucks, Cafe premises in hundreds of countries, will open a new store in the country over the next few days. This will be the third Café opened the company in Costa Rica, since they arrived in the country last year and they have consolidated a significant success in the Central American country.

The new town of Starbucks will be in the area west of the capital, San Jose, the American firm will employ nearly 100 people and soon will open a local room in a still-undefined area.

Franchises have generated you to Costa Rica an investment of $6 million, according to studies by the Chamber of Commerce.

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Mega projects taken Central Pacific │ costadevelopers.com

Central Canton and Garabito will receive investments by more than $211 million on the next 15 years.

On the next 15 years the canton central Pacific of Costa Rica and the canton of Garabito will receive investments of more than $211 million.

In the list of projects there are three real estate developments in charge of Costa Rican companies that seek to change the face of the province of Puntarenas, which has been lagging behind for several years.

While the canton of Garabito is one of the cantons more growing in the country and greater tourism boom, still seems that investors seek to invest more in it to consolidate it as the tourist area of greater affluence of the country.

Investments that are projected to be in the central cantons and Puntarenas-Garabito will reach $211 billion and will occupy about 164 hectares of land over a period of 15 years.

One of the projects planned for the area is Mystic, a mini beach town located in Playa Hermosa, Jacó in the canton of Garabito. The managers of Mystic, the company Desarrollos506, will build a community private's three stages focused a Costa Rican of class medium-high and high of ages between the 30 and 60 years.

Another of the projects scheduled for this area is Jaco Walk, located in the center of the city and will count with a investment of approximately $50 million of about 70 thousand meters square of construction with 600 parking. The project will begin to market their properties next month and is expected to be delivered in October 2014.

Jaco Walk will house banks, fast food, medical Tower and other offices. You will have access to the sea, to the main street and also mountain, projected that the property also has a future hotel. It will be developed by the company Interra.

"Today there are shops which are not in Jaco for lack of adequate infrastructure to operate with standards of international franchising; There are even others who are working in local inadequate", Alfredo Atmetlla Manager of Interra told the daily El Financiero.

Ready to open projects is Ocean Mall, a shopping mall of 22 thousand square meters with an investment of $20 million. The building would be ready at the beginning of 2015. Ocean Mall is part of an even more ambitious project of a mixed complex called Oak city, which will be from an Office Center, apartments, different amenities and residential condominiums.

Without a doubt Central Pacific region is emerging as one of the regions fastest growing in the country especially in the tourist and real estate industry of Costa Rica.

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New #tourism partnerships between #Costa Rica and #China │ #costadevelopers

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Commercial alliances with China have increased in the Government of President Laura Chinchilla.

The Minister of tourism of Costa Rica, Allan Flores said in recent days from Beijing was signed a memorandum on air cooperation between China and Costa Rica with which it seeks to increase Chinese tourism to Costa Rica.

Initiative pursues the increase at four times the number of visitors from China in the next three years. According to the goal intends to spend 12 thousand current Chinese per year to 50 000 in 2016.

The Minister indicated that this establishes a line of air cooperation which was signed in August of last year and which was given validity in President Laura Chinchilla's recent trip to Beijing.

This agreement is beneficial for those airlines that fly between the two countries, through the major cities of the United States, such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami.

"In the absence of direct air links between China and Costa Rica, something that is technically very difficult due to the long distance (as with almost all Latin America), this type of links seek to stimulate the arrival of Chinese tourists," said.

For example, developing travel packages that include Costa Rica as a destination added to U.S. cities already very popular among travelers from China, said Flores.

The country is currently in search of a profile of specific tourist, those who travel frequently outside of China, and have for favorite destinations, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Viet Nam.

The country wants to be shown as a safe destination, suitable to enjoy eco-tourism, bird watching, and other adventure activities.

This is part of the plan for the diversification of the attraction of tourism in Costa Rica, since this activity is usually promoted to countries like United States, Canada and the European Union; however the country now seeks to attract to the Asian region.

During his visit to China, the Costa Rican delegation, which also includes the Deputy Minister of transport, Ana Cristina Jenkins, met with leaders of three of the major airlines in the country (Air China, China Eastern and Hainan Airlines) and the director of the administration of Civil Aviation, Li Jiaxiang.

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