Juan Dolio - South Beach of the Caribbean !!!

[STEVE G.]

Juan Dolio has it is own history back in the past , but real boom is starting now ...The major developers in the area Villas Del Mar just have started few years ago new developments ... Group Metro bought there land for Costa Del Sol I & II , Marbella , etc. in 2005 ...

[STEVE G.]

... Group Metro , Hemingway Club ... have started there major developments in 2005 , a lot of developers just are going to invest in Villas Del Mar , Juan Dolio ... And the reason why 10 - 20 floors to build - is not really enough land ... so it will be as high priced as South Beach in the future ...

[MommC]

Yes the beach regeneration was done quickly, however the regeneration has been stopped at Juan Dolio Public Beach and from what I understand will not be continued down to Guayacanes as originally stated for several reasons.
However, while the new beach is nice and now permits walking from one end of JD to the other via the beach, in my books sanitation is a much more pressing issue and should have been installed before permissions for the current construction were granted.
What good is a beautiful beach if you can't swim due to polluted water??
Surely those who live here know how the septic systems are installed and where the grey water filters through the coral to the sea, much like the canals of Venice served as a conduit for the refuse of the city to travel to the open sea.
Take a drive down the highway at night from Costa Caribe to Villas del Mar and when it's high season the night 'perfume' wafted inland will make your stomach turn........Thank heavens we live on the sea side of the highway!

[mikey007]

the water in miami beach or the beaches in puerto rico are not pollluted , it is all relative

[STEVE G.]

...The government and the private sector inaugurated the works of regeneration of four kilometers of the Beach of Juan Dolio, it will count on eight entrances of access for the public. During an act in this beach, the secretary of Tourism, Felix Jiménez, said that the free access decided with the hotelkeepers ...He said that a Marine Stroll will be constructed in Juan Dolio, that will cover all the regenerated zone, to avoid that the old people and the pregnant women are exposed to the danger of the street. Also Juan Dolio will have an aqueduct and they will complete the sanitary system. ... that is what the secretary of Tourism Felix Jiménez announced just 3 days ago ... not 10 years ago ... before that there were just rumors around

[MommC]

mickey...Miami beach has a sanitary system....as does a lot of the areas in Puerto Rico. They don't put in a septic tank that drains into a hole dug in the ground to sea level. Also they don't sit on a coral foundation that has 'channels' through it that the wave action and tide 'drains' into the sea.
It's all about geology and adequate sanitary filtration.
Also Steve G. there was an 'official' plan for the Juan Dolio area that was introduced about 25 years ago (I don't remember the exact year) that I saw personally before we bought our condo here in 1990.
Back in 1990 we we informed that the timeline for turning the beach road into a pedestrian walkway with access only for tourist buses and delivery vehicles and construction of a 'boardwalk' and sewage treatment plant was 5 years....so they're only 11 years late!
BTW Juan Dolio does have an aquaduct (al least old Juan Dolio), we're connected to it!

[mikey007]

i never had the benefiit of using a septic tank all my properties utilized public water and sewer and u are right juan dolio does have an aqueduct system but septic tanks are not made to to drain out to the water table a right septic tank in any country is supposed to be built with acceptable waste tanks

[MommC]

e mickey....but there are no acceptable tanks or 'seepage beds' here.
We installed a septic system for a rural property (3 bdrm house) in Ontario.
Cost us over $10,000. and we needed to install a 100 foot weeping tile bed filled with gravel and sand to filter the 'seepage'.
Here in Juan Dolio they install a tank then from the overflow hole near the top of the tank the put a pipe that drains to the hole dug down to the water table. When the hole plugs up you either clean it out (messy, smelly and only last a little while) or you dig a new hole! One of the nearby resorts spent one season digging about 9 or 10 'holes' because the ground was so saturated the 'holes' (they call them filtrantes or some such) kept plugging up shortly after being dug.
Also when a septic tank becomes full, responsible owners have a truck come and pump them out. Irresponsible owners call a local guy who comes in at night, empties the tank with buckets, digs a whole in the sand on the beach and dumps the waste into the whole then when the tank is empty, he puts the sand back on top of the waste and disappears until needed again (yes we've seen it being done this way-one of the not so pleasant aspects off being a night owl!)

[mikey007]

i thought most of juan dolio and guacannes were hooked up to public water and sewer i think those septic tanks are the exception and not the rule the residents of costa del sol are making a payment for the public water and system hook up this will be the future trend

[STEVE G.]

Bienvenidos al Hoy Digital
Hoy Digital .Thursday 8 of February of the 2007 . National and foreign companies will construct this year around 600 apartments in Juan Dolio, with an investment that surpasses the US$500 million, in which hotelkeepers have denominated like the relaunching of that zone. Pedro Dájer, executive director of the Association for the Tourist Development of Juan Dolio and Guayacanes, said that this tourist town is outlined like one of the most important poles of the country. A factor that according to the Dájer hotelkeeper favors that zone is its proximity to the city, the beauty of its beaches and the facility to recover the investment, in special in real estate properties. Between the companies that construct in Juan Dolio mentioned the Group Metro, that has the projects Costa Del Sol, Marbella and Las Olas, as well as to the Industrial Development Bank, Star Fish Resorts. In the zone also one projects to raise an important hotel project, said the tourist industrialist. As far as the real estate development, Dájer showed that only the project of apartments Costa Del Sol, that is developed in Juan Dolio, sold US$100 million, which reported to the government US$5.0 million by concept of taxes. It showed that the low interests for loans, as much in the country as in the outside, facilitate the real estate investment in properties. It said that that zone had a great time with splendor of the exclusive tourism of everything including which it was developed in the country in years 90. It exposed that the association that directs takes a series of directed activities to impel what they have called the New Juan Dolio, where stands out the real estate tourism, making emphasis in the golf courses. It jointly showed that with the golf courses, in next March they will inaugurate a polo field and that will be constructed other two golf courses. Impact stood out that will have in the attraction of tourists to that zone the regeneration of the beach of Juan Dolio, who was made with an investment superior to the US$5.0 million, of which the private sector contributed to US$1.4 million and the government the rest, through the Secretariat of tourism. “We must recognize the work that carries out the secretary of Tourism, Felix Jiménez, with the support of president Leonel Fernandez, which has given the opportunity us to have a practically new beach”, said. It expressed that 50% of the people who buy villas and apartments in Juan Dolio they are Dominican, which indicates that that zone continues being an important tourist pole. For the hotelkeeper the amount of people interested in acquiring properties in that zone is every greater time and that including the flow from tourists to the hotels that maintain the format of everything including also has increased significantly. “Yes, definitively the regeneration of the beach is important, because it was what lacked for the definitive impulse of the zone “, said Dájer. At the moment it has more than 600 apartments in construction that zone, since although many they buy them to use them, others acquire them as investment and rents them, by one week, a month or more time. “Much people have preferred to invest in a zone so guaranteed as that, because in just a short time it recovers his investment, by the attractiveness that has the place”, explained. The investment that has made the authorities in regeneration of the beach has increased the capital gain of the properties, because people are excited with the beauty of the place, its proximity to the city and the easy access, explained Dájer. It said that in Juan Dolio there are about five great hotels, Coral Costa Caribe and three of the Barceló chain, that are Capella, Talanquera and Colonia Tropical and a great amount with less than 100 rooms.