SANTO DOMINGO – Blue Mall World Trade Center is a project that will boost luxury, real estate, and business tourism in the National District. Yesterday, President Luis Abinader visited the building, which has been under construction for a year, and attended the groundbreaking ceremony that symbolized its start.
The Dominican head of state toured the construction site with the Velutini family to see the progress. The project, by the Velutini Group, led by businessman Luis Emilio Velutini, will be located in the Blue Mall Santo Domingo.
It was reported that the Blue Mall expansion will open during the first quarter of 2023 and the entire World Trade Center Blue Mall complex will be inaugurated in the last quarter of 2024.
“I will be here for the opening in 2023 and I will be here for the inauguration of the complex in 2024,” Abinader said.
The president was accompanied by the mayor of the National District, Carolina Mejía; the Minister of Tourism, David Collado; the administrator of the Banco de Reservas, Samuel Pereyra; among others.
Abinader also predicted that the next peak tourist season will be one of "the best in the country's history.".
“September was the best month in the entire country (in terms of tourism), and already in October we are well above October 2019, so the recovery of tourism is real,” said the president, who stressed that the national economy is projected to grow between 10 and 12% next year.
