CDC Logo
mission
services news & press clients & projects principals
News & Press
Press Releases
Articles
Speeches
Contact Development Company, LLC (CDC), headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Mexico City, announced that it has been chosen by Grupo Plan, S.A. de C.V., a renowned Mexican real estate development Company and the owner of the El Tamarindo and El Careyes resorts, to own and operate the exclusive cross-border marketing & sales organization specifically tailored for the promotion and sale of residential resort properties at the secluded and upscale El Tamarindo and El Careyes resort developments located just north of the Manzanillo International Airport on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

"El Tamarindo Luxury Properties" and "El Careyes Luxury Properties", affiliate companies of CDC, constituted for the promotion and sale of real estate within these upscale resort projects will own and operate these respective marketing and sales companies for the promotion and sale, both on-site and off-site of the real estate properties within the gates of these private resort/residential communities.

Within the exclusive El Tamarindo club community, El Tamarindo Luxury Properties will start beginning this "high season" with the promotion, marketing and sale of twenty-two ocean front St. Regis branded villas as well as a limited number of large ocean front custom estate lots. El Tamarindo is being positioned as Mexico's and one of the world's most exclusive low density private resort/residential communities, with a maximum of 250 residential units on a 2,000 acre section of lush and opulent oceanfront property with 9 ½ miles of ocean frontage.

El Tamarindo is currently anchored by the exclusive boutique El Tamarindo Hotel, part of Starwood's "Luxury Collection" brand. The nearby coastal village and development, Costa Careyes, is also a exclusive master-planned mixed-use resort community, which is anchored by the El Careyes Hotel, also operated by Starwood's "Luxury Collection" brand, and CDC, through its affiliate El Careyes Luxury Properties, Ltd., will be involved in the future development, promotional and marketing and sales efforts at Costa Careyes, as well.

About Contact Development Company, LLC
Contact Development Company (CDC) is a multi-faceted real estate development, investment banking and marketing and sales firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Mexico City, and is a driving force in the successful development, planning, financing and marketing of domestic and international resort real estate projects. CDC has provided developers, investors and operators a specialized understanding of the resort development industry, offering services in real estate financing, investment banking, cross-border marketing and sales of residential real estate.

David G. Ellsworth, the Chairman & CEO of Contact Development Company, LLC, has been intimately involved in the development of numerous resort and private residential master-planned communities world wide. The various capacities he has fulfilled range from overseeing the development itself to facilitating the necessary equity and debt capital for the development and/or acquisition of the project; from creating and directing the legal structuring of a project to partnering with project developers to ensure the successful development of resort master-planned communities.

About Grupo Plan
Grupo Plan is a respected Mexican development company and is the owner of El Tamarindo and El Careyes in addition to the new "W Hotel" in Mexico City, the new Sheraton in Campeche, and several Haciendas in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, all of which are operated under Starwood's Luxury Collection brand.

#########

For more information, press only:
Andrea Grigg, +1-415-332-0430, agrigg@cdcglobal.com

For more information about Grupo Plan:
http://www.grupoplan.com

top of page



home | contact us | legal notices
© Copyright 2007 Contact Development Company, LLC