The Mayor of Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrez, published the news on his Instagram account. "We are beginning a new stage, the product of the constant work that this government has done. After nine months of conforming the bidding documents with the legal teams of the Rocha government, the MEF, the MTOP, the MINTUR and the OPP (Office of Planning and Budget) is over soon," he said.
"In the next few days we will hold the corresponding press conference. It will come out or it will not come out because there are investors, but we have done everything institutionally appropriate to make it happen," the mayor added.
In August of last year, Umpiérrez had said: “Now it will not be for a five-star development, but for high-quality hotels, which in the old rating would be four stars or four stars superior, where we are preparing a specification. Now not on the entire coast of Rocha, but on the old census that occupied the Aguada campsite or the PIT-CNT campsite as it was known, and a neighboring property.”
The department Mayor had detailed that the tender "will be carried out without prejudice to including a permit for casinos and a convention center and an amount of not less than 120 rooms."
This new project in La Paloma that brings together the tourism industry with the gaming offer of a casino is added to others already announced. La Paloma is a seaside town on Uruguay’s southeast coast, east of Montevideo. Its slim, white Lighthouse of Cabo Santa Maria overlooks the Atlantic, near traditional fishermen’s cottages.
Currently, Uruguay is advancing with the tender for other similar developments in Carmelo and Termas del Arapey, while the great undertaking that has already begun construction in Punta del Este under the administration of the international Cipriani Group, moves forward at a steady pace.
Source: GMB / El Pais (Uruguay)
