Promoter of the Brava Resort & Conference Center project plans to lay the first stone this year
The promoter of the biggest tourist project for the island, Brava Resort & Conference Center, said today that the plan is currently in a very advanced engineering phase and that they intend to lay the first stone this year.
Speaking to Inforpress, Andy Andrade, director of CaboVerdeOnline.com , a 100 percent (%) private company that is behind the Brava Resort & Conference Center project, budgeted at around 35 million euros, highlighted that as soon as they close financial engineering the project “becomes real”.
“Until we have completed the financial engineering we cannot set a specific date for the start of the work, but I guarantee that this year there is every possibility of the project getting off the ground”, he stressed.
According to the same source, the project was inspired by the island of Nantucket, in Massachusetts (USA), to “transform” Brava.
It is recalled that the project was presented to the press almost a year ago, where Andy Andrade said that he lived in the United States for several years and always saw some characteristics identical to Brava Island on that North American island.
He had also announced the support and investment, in addition to the Government of Cape Verde, of Marriott International, a company that owns a conglomerate of luxury hotels spread across the world.
The Brava Resort & Conference Center project is part of the “Brava – O Destino” project, which will be implemented in phases in Nova Sintra, on land provided by the Diocese of Cape Verde.
According to the same source, this project incorporates a set of “high quality” offers, including restaurants, Spa, rental of spaces for conferences, events and meetings, gym and leisure infrastructures, and which “should create a total of 180 direct jobs”.
The objective of Brava Resort & Conference Center is to “transform” the island into a conference, nature and cultural tourist destination, with a “particular focus” on the North American market, aiming to attract the first, second and third generations of the Cape Verdean diaspora in U.S.
The project, which will be implemented in two phases, foresees the construction of a conference center and a resort with 172 luxury rooms, totaling 330 beds, also foreseeing the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings, transforming them into small tourist units.
The Brava Resort & Conference Center will also have the services of a fleet of buses and shuttles and will also have a boat built from scratch that guarantees transport to and from Brava, in addition to the construction of an alternative port in the town of Fajã d´ Water.
