When Greed Wins, Zihuatanejo Loses

The end of Zihuatanejo as we know it is in sight. "The Related Group", a Miami-based developer, cut the ribbon with the governor and local functionaries yesterday for a project I warned about here about a year ago called "Punta Garrobo". They have plans, and evidently permission, to build 600 condos, 100 houses and 2 hotels between Las Gatas and El Riscalillo along the fragile peninsula that separates Zihuatanejo Bay from Bahía de Potosí.

So for all the lodging owners already struggling because they are unable to sufficiently rent their properties or fill their hotel rooms, things will get much worse when this project is finished. And for all the folks who come here to enjoy the natural beauty of Zihuatanejo that includes snorkeling at the little beach of Manzanillo Bay over the hill from Playa La Ropa, enjoy it while it lasts because the blasting and earth-moving that will have to take place to put in the development and all its infrastructure is possibly the death knell for the fragile marine ecosystem that has managed to exist in spite of the crap we pour into the oceans and all the resources we extract from it.

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From the previous discussion on this subject.
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