A message from the Tourism Development Program Colonial City / Programa de Fomento al Turismo Ciudad Colonial, S.D. MITUR – BID. I translated it for you. The work continues to progress! / La obra sigue avanzando! The day was completed yesterday by pouring concrete on Calle Padre Billini between Hostos and Merino / El dia […]
Renovada Ciudad Colonial
Renovada Ciudad Colonial – Map of Construction July
Etapa Actual de Obras Desvíos Julio 2014 / Current Stage of Construction Detours July 2014 The new roads open, closed and with limited access for July and beginning of August as the work continues for the Renovada Ciudad Colonial / Renovating the Colonial City. July, 25, 2014 marks the 1 year anniversary of the day […]
Renovada Ciudad Colonial – Disaster on Padre Billini
Here in the Colonial Zone it started raining on Monday. We got about 15 to 20 minutes of hard rain around 6PM. The roads they have been working on with the Renovada Ciudad Colonial Project flooded immediately. The roads that are completed and in service were filled with water. The new drain system could not […]
Renovada Ciudad Colonial – June Update
Work continues on the Renovation Project of Colonial Zone. Tearing up more streets and making ready others. This is the update from the work and the new map or the open and closed roads, the detours/ desvios and the roads under construction/ calles en obras. *Calle Meriño from from Calle Padre Billini to Calle El […]
Work Continues – Renovada Ciudad Colonial May 2014
The work on the roads in the Colonial Zone continue. Renovada Ciudad Colonial has the Zona Colonial area pretty torn up from Calle Isabel la Catolica to Arzibispo Meriño and most of the roads connecting the two. A few or the roads have opened but they still need a little work but at least cars […]
Renovada Ciudad Colonial – Using Radar
The project Renovada Ciudad Colonial (they are remodeling the Colonial Zone streets making the area more appealing to tourism and development), part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded US$30 million Colonial City urban renewal project, has unearthed some interesting finds on the old city of Santo Domingo. Underneath these 15th and 16th century streets are […]
