Sunday, November 03, 2013 11:35:39 PM
Everything about the 1,000-acre Baha Mar is a big deal. A few numbers: There will be 2,200 hotel rooms spread between ventures from Rosewood, Grand Hyatt, Mondrian, Morgans and the centerpiece Baha Mar Casino & Hotel, the latter with a 100,000-square foot casino, the Caribbean’s largest. There will be 30 restaurants and bars, a 2,000-square foot performing arts center and a 30,000-square foot ESPA spa, and…Well, you get the idea: A Vegas-like self-contained recreational world, only with 3,000 feet of beach frontage.
Sky-filling fireworks were cascading down from the highest rooftop at Baha Mar, at $3.5 billion said to be the western hemisphere’s largest current resort project, and the most ambitious ever built in the Bahamas—Atlantis, visible across the water, notwithstanding. Massive pyrotechnic flower blooms and vivid multi-color spikes and streamers burst seemingly right on top of us, so close that occasional warm ashes hit our faces and embedded themselves in our hair.
I turned to my friend The World Traveler, shoulder-to-shoulder with me in the jostling crowd and shouted, “This is so astounding!!”
This is a project whose success or failure will send massive ripples throughout the Bahamas and maybe the region beyond, and one whose cooperation between governments—local, Bahamian and Chinese—and private enterprise may provide a model for such mega-developments going forward. Expect a full-on Junkanoo in December, 2014—and an outbreak of fireworks that will rock windows all the way to Miami
Bold paragraphs taken from Forbes
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