Commerce
The demographic growth and the increase in
sea, land and air communications infrastructure
have detonated a 300% increase in the business
sector. This year, the Puerto Morelos Industrial
Logistics Park will be re-launched, an area in which
state mercantile and industrial businesses will
be concentrated. After years of lack of investor
interest, entrepreneurs Jacobo Zacal and Moisés El-
Mann (shopping mall developers) have taken over
the project in order to create an entry port for
products and cargo serving the interior of the state
of Quintana Roo.
Cancún has twenty-one self-service mega-stores in
operation (Chedraui, Wal-Mart, Bodega Aurrera, Sam's Club, Comercial Mexicana, Costco , Gigante, City Club
and Soriana) and six more supermarkets in construction. At present, four shopping malls are underway in cancun
-- Cancún Mall, Paseos de Cancún; Plaza la Isla II and the Gran Plaza de Cancún, adding up to more than six
hundred stores, thirty-two cinemas, as well as department stores, restaurants and cafeterias.
Rapid growth continues in Playa del Carmen, demonstrating investor confidence in medium- and long-term
growth. Construction of Gran Plaza de la Riviera, with an initial investment of approximately $15 million is
being carried out on an almost 150-acre site that will include Power Center, a supermarket, three gasoline
stations, a two-thousand person capacity convention center, a hotel with four hundred executive rooms, and the
First Avenue pedestrian thoroughfare that will lodge sixty business spaces. Sixty-seven per cent of Superblock
52 was acquired for the construction of Plaza las Americas, whose 25-acre property (20% more than the Cancun
location) will receive an investment of some $40 million.