{"id":26238,"date":"2012-09-28T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26238"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:15:23","slug":"schooner-bay-to-become-hottest-place-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/schooner-bay-to-become-hottest-place-to-be","title":{"rendered":"Schooner Bay To Become &#8216;Hottest Place To Be&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26239\" title=\"schooner-bay-abaco-bahamas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/schooner-bay-abaco-bahamas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/schooner-bay-abaco-bahamas.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/schooner-bay-abaco-bahamas-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Developers behind Abaco\u2019s Schooner Bay community\u00a0 expressed confidence it would become \u201cthe hottest place to be in the Out Islands\u201d within five years, telling Tribune Business all infrastructure\/utilities work would be completed by December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>James Malcolm, Schooner Bay\u2019s sales and marketing director, said the developers were in \u201cthe final push\u201d to turn the location into a true \u201cdestination\u201d, and realise the original vision of its founder, Orjan Lindroth.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Blackfly BoneFish Lodge, set to be centrepiece at Schooner Bay, was set for an April 2013 completion, and it was already \u201cfully booked\u201d for May-June next year.<\/p>\n<p>Schooner Bay has 60 property owners to-date, accounting for 48 per cent of the 125 lots that were put on the market in Phase I. The project, intended to be a model for sustainable development and living in the Bahamas, has 450 lots in total.<\/p>\n<p>Among the small businesses operating at Schooner Bay are Abaco Nature Tours, Froggy\u2019s Down Island Adventures, Islands By Design, Bahamas National Trust, Amanda Design, Lightbourn Family Farms, Flava Catering, Islander Home Services, Carib Procurement, Frederick\u2019s Agency and Antonius Roberts Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of Abaco\u2019s Schooner Bay community are confident that it will become \u201cthe hottest place to be in the Out Islands\u201d within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[133,118,59,229,33],"class_list":["post-26238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-community","tag-development","tag-islands","tag-resorts","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}