SANTO DOMINGO – The Nisibon AirPark project, the first domestic airport in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, will begin operations before the end of 2023. Its first phase includes the construction of the domestic terminal on a 23 million square meter property, with an investment exceeding US$9 million, initially generating more than 190 jobs, which are expected to reach approximately 260 employees when it is fully operational within the next five years.
The project also aims to preserve more than 50 existing jobs resulting from traditional agricultural activity in the area. The second phase will include a real estate development, an adventure park with 13 attractions, an aviation club, and other activities related to the aeronautical sector, with a total project investment exceeding US$125 million.
The company received the operating certificate, delivered by the interim general director of IDAC, Héctor Porcella, to the president of Nisibon AirPark, Oscar Villanueva Sued, who was accompanied by the businessmen Fernando Villanueva and Eduardo Read, president and member of the board of the Viamar group, among others.
Also present were the director of the Airport Department, Víctor Pichardo, and the commanding general of the Dominican Republic Air Force, Major General Carlos R. Febrillet.
The aeronautical components of the complex, together with the terminal and its hangars, will be complemented by a real estate development under the concept of villas with hangars or hangar-homes, where owners can arrive and store their aircraft, according to a press release.
Oscar Villanueva, president of the project, asserted that there is no aeronautical, tourism, and real estate offering like the one Nisibon AirPark will provide in the Caribbean region. "We are very pleased to receive this certification, which will allow us to continue boosting the country's socioeconomic development through new sources of formal employment, prioritizing the purchase of materials and supplies from local businesses, and preserving existing jobs resulting from agricultural activity in the area.".
Porcella explained that the certification of the new airfield met all the requirements established in the Dominican Republic's Civil Aviation Law No. 491-06, in a process that began in 2013. He stated that the aeronautical complex corresponds to the great moment that civil aviation is experiencing in the country as a result of the extraordinary boom in the national tourism industry.
The private capital project, belonging to Grupo Viamar, is located in the community of Las Lagunas de Nisibón, in Higüey, less than 50 kilometers from Punta Cana and is destined to become one of the main complementary attractions of the largest tourist destination in the Caribbean region.
