The works in the former San Rafael hotel advance steadily in Maldonado and the brand new complex continues to be erected Cipriani Ocean Resort, Club Residences & Casino of Punta del Estewhose inauguration is scheduled for November 2025 and will include the construction of the tallest tower in Latin America.
He mayor of Maldonado, Enrique Antía, He highlighted “the importance” of businessmen taking the risk and achieving investments in the department, about which he stated that “it is moving more and more forward” and reviewed that “after the construction is completed, we have to maintain it, bring in tourism and make it work.”
Antía He assessed that the tasks are progressing at the expected pace and involve the work of more than 200 workers and there are expectations that this figure will double, so in a little less than two years the hotel and casino will be operational, while it is expected that in 2025 progress with the platforms of the three residential towers and offices that are part of the property.
What state is the work in?
At the moment, the casino and hotel garage sector is planned on site, as well as the foundation for buildings. In addition, the mayor anticipated that in the coming months it will be possible to observe the progress of some floors.
In turn, the Italian businessman Giuseppe Cipriani, businessman in charge of the technical work team leading the construction, assessed the progress and specified that the tasks will continue in double shifts “to make up for lost time.”
In this context, in the last three days 800 cubic meters of concrete and the plan is to achieve 2,800 per month, while next month the founding of the first tower with 80 piles 18 meters deep.
Specifically, 5,000 cubic meters of the almost 25,000 planned in stage 1 of the work have already been dumped, as indicated Alejandro Guillochón, Criba project manager in Uruguay, the main contractor. In this regard, she admitted “the schedule is tight,” but stressed that the work will be done “in the agreed times.”
The Departmental Board approved the complex, after the rejection of the people
It is worth remembering that the complex was approved by the Maldonado Departmental Board in mid-December 2022, so the construction works excavation They started in January 2023.
However, a group of people gathered signatures to “stop” the initiative, considering that Punta del Este “does not deserve to enter a high-level competition,” focusing on progress over the environmental issue, although also warning about the difficulties for the work of firefighters in the event of an emergency.
“The sanitation systems, the impact of traffic, the saturation of the beaches and the shadow that a tower of that height will produce are some of the impacts that must be taken care of,” said the neighbors who signed the initiative through the platform. Change, which today has more than 5,400 headings.
It is worth remembering that the Cipriani Group It acquired the hotel property for $50 million in 2018, while in 2019 it demolished the traditional venue due to its poor structural condition.
Source: Ambito
