{"id":35484,"date":"2013-05-10T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35484"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:43:56","slug":"freeport-resort-in-talks-with-artificial-reef-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/freeport-resort-in-talks-with-artificial-reef-maker","title":{"rendered":"Freeport Resort In Talks With Artificial Reef Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US-based underwater attraction developer is in talks with Blue Diamond Resorts over creating an artificial reef world at its Grand Lucayan hotel property, an executive telling Tribune Business yesterday it was \u201cvery keen\u201d on developing its product in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

\"\"Reef Worlds is aiming to ramp up the introduction of its new underwater worlds at all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, thanks to its new $4.5 million development budget.<\/p>\n

Mike Wallace, Reef Worlds\u2019 director of development,told Tribune Business that the $4.5 million should cover 10-15 hotels. He then revealed that the company was in talks with Blue Diamond Resorts, which has taken over the 503-room Reef Village at Freeport\u2019s Grand Lucayan, with the goal of re-opening it later this year following extensive upgrades.<\/p>\n

Mr Wallace also disclosed that Reef Worlds was in talks with a Nassau-hotel on a similar venture, but declined to reveal its name.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking to expand what we do dramatically by year\u2019s end,\u201d he told Tribune Business. \u201cThe relationship with Blue Diamond is in its initial stages. We are still trying to work out the final details on that and we will see how that turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reef Worlds, a US-based underwater attraction developer, is discussing developing an artificial reef attraction for the Reef Village at Freeport\u2019s Grand Lucayan.<\/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":[3],"tags":[76,25,79,229,33],"class_list":["post-35484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-environment-2","tag-hotels","tag-marine","tag-resorts","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484","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=35484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}