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New golf course at Bahia de los Suenos?

tigerdog - 7-7-2009 at 02:55 PM

Has anyone been out toward the Bahia de los Suenos project lately, south of La Paz? You know, the one that used to have the Giggling Marlin folks as partners/investors? Been seeing any activity? I ask because of this:
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Tom Doak's first Mexico golf course opens in 2010 at Bahía de los Sueños resort community

PCS Development Inc., which is developing the Bahía de los Sueños resort community, is in negotiations with several hotel companies for a resort on the 4,300-acre property in Mexico's Baja California Sur. Located 35 miles southeast of La Paz and 100 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas, Bahìa de los Sueños is slated to feature 600 custom homesites, 450 planned casita-style residences, a private airport, at least one resort hotel and a Tom Doak-designed golf course.

The region is popular with tourists for its fishing, swimming and wind surfing, the latter of which is particularly in the winte months when the wnds blow from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Cortez.

The golf course is Doak's first work in Mexico. Doak is best known for Pacific Dunes, his larger-than-life design at Bandon Dunes Resort in Bandon, Ore., and the stunning Cape Kidnappers resort course in New Zealand. He's also completing work on the highly-anticipated Old Macdonald Course at Bandon Dunes.

Doak's Bahìa de los Sueños course - called Bay of Dreams - is scheduled to be complete later this fall with a grand opening set for 2010. The course plays within feet of the Sea of Cortez, which Doak said presented some environmental challenges.


You can read the entire article here: http://tinyurl.com/l8fw9c

So, is that golf course REALLY going in?

Paulclark - 7-7-2009 at 03:16 PM

Recently received this: http://rprnewmedia.com/ecard/bahia/09BAH041_June_E-Newslette...
so I guess they are almost open.

Al G - 7-7-2009 at 03:37 PM

Well...it makes one wonder who they stole the water from :fire:

Cardon Man - 7-7-2009 at 03:39 PM

Bahía de los Sueños ..."the Baja that has always been"..."but we didn't like that creepy old Mexican name so we changed it".

bajajudy - 7-7-2009 at 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by Cardon Man
Bahía de los Sueños ..."the Baja that has always been"..."but we didn't like that creepy old Mexican name so we changed it".


Yea what is wrong with Bay of the Dead? I believe that it is bad booty to rename a place. Particularly for commercial reasons.
Sorry to high jack this thread

tigerdog - 7-7-2009 at 04:27 PM

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Originally posted by Cardon Man
Bahía de los Sueños ..."the Baja that has always been"..."but we didn't like that creepy old Mexican name so we changed it".


:yes: :yes: :yes:

tigerdog - 7-7-2009 at 04:30 PM

Where are they going to get the people to play on the thing?

oldlady - 7-7-2009 at 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by tigerdog
Has anyone been out toward the Bahia de los Suenos project lately, south of La Paz? You know, the one that used to have the Giggling Marlin folks as partners/investors? Been seeing any activity? I ask because of this:

You can read the entire article here: http://tinyurl.com/l8fw9c

So, is that golf course REALLY going in?


Out there maybe three weeks ago kayaking...from Giggling Marlin (Now called El Cardon) one can see 4 or so holes of a golf course across the bay, quite possible more or all are completed and we aould not have been able to see that. There's quite a bit of other construction going on out there too. That's about all I know.

oldjack - 7-8-2009 at 09:59 AM

Last spring I had the occassion to be on the same plane with the developer and his attorney... they gave me a glossy brochure and told me about the project.... $1,000,000usd homesites.. townhouses >500,000 a new airport capable of G5's/737's... private membership to course... they told me between the 5-6 vodka/cranberry drinks they each had that clients were waiting for the place to be built... their first phase had to be to build a small community on the northside(laPaz entry) to house the workers/employees and secondly to extend the runway to accomodate the big jets... the rumor was that Calderon pushed the project thru w/help from Fox( a nearby landowner)... I haven't seen the worker's village built yet!!!

805gregg - 7-8-2009 at 04:44 PM

Can you just arbitrarily change the name of a body of water because it doesn't fit your marketing plan?

Cardon Man - 7-9-2009 at 08:39 AM

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Originally posted by 805gregg
Can you just arbitrarily change the name of a body of water because it doesn't fit your marketing plan?


Apparently so. :barf:

Martyman - 7-9-2009 at 10:51 AM

I got you babe!

makana.gabriel - 7-9-2009 at 12:35 PM

So what ever happened to Gary Wagner of Giggling Marlin fame and the Century 21 owner who started this all? Did they come out all right?
Bajajazz, would you please expand a little on Sonny Bono and his connection to Punto Arenas? I find it unimaginable that a member of Congress could escape publicity if he was connected to drugs. I was living in Cabo then and never heard anything about that. Very, very curious.
Thanks!!

BryanDeSena - 7-9-2009 at 05:22 PM

Came across this thread, and as a representative of the developer of this project, I thought I’d pass along some updates as they relate to your questions above. The 18-hole Tom Doak-designed golf course is indeed scheduled for completion this fall, with a formal Grand Opening slated for 2010. Currently, nine holes are grown-in and playable (in fact, members of Doak’s on-site management team are playing them almost daily). The course uses a salt-tolerant grass that requires less than ½ of the amount of water (provided by an on-site reservoir, or purchased from local wells) than other courses in the area use. The construction and maintenance of the course has created more than 100 local jobs. Doak met with about a dozen members of the golf media last week to discuss the project’s status. Steve Pike, author of the story linked above, was one of those writers.

As far as the naming of the local area, the bay itself is still of course Ensenada de los Muertos. The 4,300 acres of land encompassing the community is Bahía de los Sueños. The developer is L.A.-based PCS Development, which announced managerial control of the property earlier this year. More info at www.PCSDevelopment.com.

Re: the newspaper article, that story was pretty off base. A series of firearms, and a small amount of pot, were found in a private residence at The Bay, and Mexican authorities confiscated them. The firearms were being used for target practice, and while the firearms were legally registered in the U.S., unfortunately, the owner had not done so in Mexico. As a result, the authorities stepped in.

We’ll keep an eye on this thread. If any new questions arise, I’ll do my best to answer them. In the meantime, you can find more details on the homesites, golf course and future resort amenities at www.BahiaSuenos.com. Thanks.