Well, superficially seen there aren’t some. But considering just the name “Panamera” then you get one step closer. Porsche, the exquisite German car manufacturer of some of the best performing sports cars in the world, released its all new four-door sedan called “Panamera” back in 2009, what then became a great success since. Back in the days, Porsche did attend the Carrera Panamericana with a design study called Porsche Panamericana and so they chose the name Panamera what was deducted from their design study.
BUT, how does this make the connection to a hotel? Well, Walldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts has just announced its first hotel in Latin America – called Panamera. The Panamera Waldorf Astoria Hotel is planed to open in later 2011 in Panama City. The hotel tower will have 130 rooms and 118 luxury residences among a fitness center, spa outdoor pool and conference facilities. Construction has already started.
However, Panama City just offers another very exclusive real estate opportunity should you look for something more sophisticated and more private than a serviced residence in a hotel. Ocean Reef Island is Latin America’s first urban man made Island, right in front of Panama City’s skyline. It is a private residential community of 138 home sites to be built in the Gulf of cosmopolitan Panama City, Republic of Panama. Since January 2010, the developer has been working in the ORI quarry where the production of rock takes place focusing on the different sizes and weights required for the construction of the Punta Pacifica Islands; an extremely difficult task that has demanded not only some of the most capable engineers of the world, but also, a extraordinary effort, because of the logistic and hundreds of details that implies to build one of the most important works of the region, the first land reclamation project for a residential island in the Latin America Region.
Ocean Reef Islands is a project that was conceived in 1997, as one of the stages for the development of Punta Pacifica. For several years the viability of the project was analyzed including the multiple alternatives concerning the location, geometry and number of islands. The famous Dutch Institute Delft Hydraulics (Deltares) was retained to study of hydrodynamics and therefore, to define the actual project contemplating the currents, quality of water and several other factors to avoid affecting in any matter the Panama Bay.
Please contact us should you wish to receive more information on that development. info@wetaginternational.com.
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Peter Rabitz
