Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre
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Port of Spain
Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...
located in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
. The project is a part of the overall Vision 2020, a government policy attempting to take Trinidad and Tobago to developed country
Developed country
A developed country is a country that has a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue...
status by 2020.
The master plan involves constructing two 26-story office towers, a 22-story Hyatt Regency Hotel, and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
region’s largest conference centre. The 19-story Renaissance towers are also included in the waterfront project. It was completed in 2009.
The location of the complex is #1 Wrightson Road
Wrightson Road
Wrightson Road links downtown Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago with the Audrey Jeffers Highway. It runs from the area of the Eric Williams Financial Complex to meet the Audrey Jeffers Highway near the Hasely Crawford Stadium...
, Port of Spain.
External links
- Hyatt Trinidad & Tobago - at Port of Spain
- Vision2020 - Infrastructure and Environment
- Urban Development Corporation Of Trinidad And Tobago - The Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre
- FirstCaribbean closes US$375 million financing for waterfront development in Port of Spain, Trinidad
- Trinidad & Tobago going all out to attract more tourists
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