St. Regis Hotels break ground on a new luxury golf resort in Mexico

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- St. Regis Hotels & Resorts has broken ground on the St. Regis Resort, Punta Mita near Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Riviera. Scheduled to open in late 2007, the ultra-luxe resort is a joint venture of Ideurban Consultores, one of Mexico's largest private development and construction companies, and DINE, the master developer of Punta Mita.

The new resort is the second St. Regis property under way in Mexico as part of the company's ongoing focus on international expansion. St. Regis Hotel, Mexico City is projected to open just prior to St. Regis Resort, Punta Mita in late 2007.

St. Regis Resort, Punta Mita will be located 35 miles northwest of Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast. Surrounded by white sand beaches and lush tropical landscape, the new resort will feature as many as three championship golf courses, the first of which will be a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course.

The resort also will include 120 guest rooms and suites, each with its own outdoor shower, and about 65 luxury villas for both fractional and whole ownership. Also on the property will be a 10,000-square-foot spa and fitness center, two full-service restaurants, and a Beach Club with a pool grill and bar. The resort will also offer 7,000 square feet of meeting and function space.

Punta Mita is a gated, low-density resort and residential community covering more than 1,500 acres on a spear-shaped peninsula, surrounded on three sides by white sand beaches, Pacific Ocean waters and lush tropical flora. The master plan calls for a variety of residential offerings and estate lots as well as a tennis center, spa and wellness center, yacht pier, and a small commercial village.

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