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Mercado, zonas, inversión y vida cotidiana en Panamá. Sin postales: datos verificados, voces honestas y la lentitud necesaria para entender un país.

Costa del Este at thirty: what Panama's planned-suburb experiment actually delivered
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Costa del Este at thirty: what Panama's planned-suburb experiment actually delivered

Presented to the public in 1995 as a 310-hectare privately masterplanned district carved out of canal fill and mangrove, Costa del Este is now Panama City's benchmark for vertical living. Three decades on, the tradeoffs are visible.

9 de junio de 20266 min de lectura
Costa del Este, thirty years on: the planned suburb Panama City built on a landfill
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Costa del Este, thirty years on: the planned suburb Panama City built on a landfill

Three decades after its master plan was unveiled, Costa del Este is one of Panama City's most valuable addresses — and a case study in what planned development buys, and what it quietly costs.

23 de mayo de 20264 min de lectura
Twenty-eight years of stalled concessions on Panama City's Amador Causeway
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Twenty-eight years of stalled concessions on Panama City's Amador Causeway

Three islands at the Pacific entrance of the canal were supposed to anchor a tourism corridor when they reverted from US control. The unfinished result still shapes how foreign buyers should read the city's waterfront real estate.

19 de mayo de 20264 min de lectura
Costa del Este at thirty: what Panama City's most ambitious masterplan actually delivered
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Costa del Este at thirty: what Panama City's most ambitious masterplan actually delivered

Three decades after Costa del Este's 310-hectare masterplan was first presented, the eastern enclave has matured into a self-contained district inside metropolitan Panama City. The trade-offs are clearer now than they were in 1995.

18 de mayo de 20265 min de lectura
Punta Pacifica: anatomy of Panama City's reclaimed-land tower district
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Punta Pacifica: anatomy of Panama City's reclaimed-land tower district

A peninsula of dredged sand now hosting some of the tallest residential towers in Latin America. What buying or leasing in Punta Pacifica actually involves once the skyline stops being an abstraction.

16 de mayo de 20265 min de lectura
Costa del Este: Panama City's planned-suburb experiment, a generation on
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Costa del Este: Panama City's planned-suburb experiment, a generation on

Built on reclaimed coastline in the mid-1990s, Costa del Este answered one question well. The harder question is whether a neighborhood designed for the 1997 international family keeps absorbing the buyer of 2026.

12 de mayo de 20266 min de lectura