{"id":35529,"date":"2013-05-13T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35529"},"modified":"2013-05-13T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:17:22","slug":"sandyport-mulls-512-room-hotel-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/sandyport-mulls-512-room-hotel-plan","title":{"rendered":"Sandyport Mulls 512-Room Hotel Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/sandyport-mulls-512-room-hotel-plan-35529.html\/sandyport\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35531\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35531\" title=\"sandyport\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sandyport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sandyport.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sandyport-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The latest investments and infrastructures in the Bahamas has prompted Sandyport to revisit long-held plans to build a potential 512-room resort in Nassau.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Buckner, president of the Sandyport Development Company, reportedly told The Tribune that the developers were assisting &#8220;what the right thing is for today&#8221; in regards to its possible hotel project.<\/p>\n<p>Sandyport, which first sold its lot more than two decades ago, now has 450 occupied residences, and Mr Buckner said the developers were taking \u201ca hard look\u201d at how to develop 12 acres of unoccupied land into commercial space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSandyport has one of the finest undeveloped hotel properties in the region,\u201d he told The Tribune. \u201cWe have full government approval for up to a 512-room hotel. We\u2019re revisiting the hotel development plans that we had prior to the recession, and we\u2019ve had positive initial conversations. We\u2019re in really early days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khaalis Rolle, minister of state for investments, pledged he and the Government would do everything necessary to bring Sandyport\u2019s proposed hotel to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat project has tremendous potential, and there\u2019s tremendous interest in it,\u201d Minister Rolle said. \u201cThings are moving forward, and hopefully we\u2019ll get it done. I\u2019m on the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/may\/10\/sandyport-revisits-512-room-hotel-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Original News Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest investments and infrastructures in the Bahamas has prompted Sandyport to revisit long-held plans to build a potential 512-room resort in Nassau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[229,1641,33],"class_list":["post-35529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-resorts","tag-sandyport","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35529","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}