Lacalle tours the works at the former San Rafael hotel with businessman Giuseppe Cipriani; they plan to open in 2025

Editorial in El País
The President of the Republic, Louis Lacalle Pou, This Wednesday we reviewed the progress of the project Departure from the former Hotel San Rafael with the Merchant Giuseppe CiprianiThe president called the project “impressive” and stressed that “more than 550 people are directly involved” in the work.

Director of Administration and Human Resources, City of Maldonado, Miguel AbellaThe hotel is due to be inaugurated in December 2025. Abela recalled that it was “one of the most discussed projects in the past 10 years of the government”, noting that “many people were skeptical”, but today “it turns out that the hotel is on its way to being rebuilt as it was.”

Furthermore, he stressed the importance of the hotel “for the tourism industry and the sector” and said that “there are still about 77 weeks of work to go before it opens.”

Lacalle Pou recalled that the process began during Mayor Fernandino’s previous term. Enrique Antia”With the purchase of properties and hotels, the procedures performed, the pandemic in the middle and the beginning of investments whose feasibility many discussed. ”

“You have to see the number of people working, the quality of the work and the progress made,” Lacalle said. The president noted that the hotel’s construction was in a “difficult state to recover” and that now “renovations are being implemented. The replica of the San Rafael and the promises made are being fulfilled”.

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Director of Urban Planning, City of Maldonado Soledad LaGuardaHe, who also toured the work, said the structures and finished floors of the hotel, conference hall and casino are ready.

In this sense, Laguarda insisted that the execution time was sufficient and that the workers were working in two shifts. In addition, he said that the company has started the pilot of the first tower, of which about 60 have been placed 30 meters below the ground. The tower will have 45 floors and about 260 meters.

Photo: Ricardo Figueredo/El País.