I received notice from one of my clients this morning that La Nacion had printed an article about the airport in Costa Rica’s southern zone. You can see the article in Spanish by clicking here. (Hmmmmm, curious thing. I used to link to the article in the Costa Rica paper La Nacion that spoke about this information. In doing maintenance on my site and checking for broken links this one came up as broken, meaning that it went to a page that no longer exists. I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that we are in 2011 and there is still no airport?) I have made a quick translation of it to English below. Please pardon the various errors. I felt it of sufficient moment to slam it up pronto. I know that a lot of investors are eying the southern zone and are hoping to have the reassurance of continued growth and asset appreciation in the area, while not losing the early-bird edge on making the good investment. I think that this article will help. This also well supports getting involved with the golf course project that was the subject of my last article.
IDA to donate land in Sierpe de Osa
Society and Services
The south will have an airport by 2010
In first stage the airport will accommodate airplanes for 50 passengers
The organization “Judesur” will invest ¢600 million ($1,153,000.00 +-) in technical studies of the project
The Government promised that the first stage of the airport of the Southern zone will be constructed and working no later than 2010.
Yesterday, after a year of delay, the necessary funds were allocated from the organization Junta de Desarrollo for the southern zone (Judesur), for the technical studies of the project.
Viviana Martín, president of the Council Técnico de Aviación Civil (CTAC) and Mainor Rodríguez, of Judesur signed the agreement on Saturday agreement of cooperation in an official act in Palmar Sur, Osa.
In the first stage, the airport will feature a terminal building and a runway for airplanes of 50 passengers or less.
According to Viviana Martín, president of the Council Técnico de Aviación Civil (CTAC), the money will be invested in the geological, archeological and hidrological evaluations that are required before constructing an airfield. Additionally , the money will be used to draw up the master plan of the airport, in which the various necessities of the project will be defined: how many boarding ports, length and width of the landing strip, and for the passenger area.
The CTAC can count on the support of the Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI), who will select the ones to do the technical studies. This phase take about six months.
My translation ends here for the moment. I’ll polish the rest up shortly, or would appreciate some help from anyone at the Paradise offices :o)
Soon someterá the project to a process of concesión of pública work, so that a private company constructs and operates the aérea terminal. The work realizará in which now they are property 9 and 10, located in a plain between the districts of Sierpe and Palmar. The lands belong to the Institute of Agrarian Development (GOING); one of them está cultivated field of plátanos and other invaded by the weeds.
Según Viviana Martín, already exists a commitment so that the GOING donates lands.
During año happened other properties in Buenos Aires discarded, in the Valley of Boundary and Property 18, in South Palmar.
Características. In one first stage, the airport tendrá a terminal of passengers of 500 square meters, with básicos services like counters for sanitary aerolíneas, services and área of food.
In the 2010, the track será of 1,800 meters in length by 30 meters wide, which permitirá operación of medium airships, type ATR (like which Sansa uses) and DASH8 (Nature Air), with capacity for 48 and 50 passengers respectively.
This length is even greater to the dimensions of the track in Turkey hens, that is of 1,600 meters.
Tratará of an international airport, because these airplanes approximately have capacity of independent flight of 1,400 kilómetros.
So far, not está entered the cost of the project nor the definitive características of the aérea terminal.
That sí, Martín garantizó that the building for passengers must be friendly with its surroundings, cannot produce a visual shock in that great zone of vegetación and must guarantee a strict handling of sólidos, líquidos and combustible remainders.
In one second stage, the CTAC tries to extend the track to 2,900 meters in length so that airplanes type 737, able can land to transport between 110 and 215 passengers.
Spanish – directly from the article
IDA donará terrenos en Sierpe de Osa
Sociedad y Servicios
El sur tendrá aeropuerto en el 2010
En primera etapa podrán aterrizar aviones para 50 pasajeros
Judesur invertirá ¢600 millones en estudios técnicos del proyecto
Vanessa Loaiza N.
vloaiza@nacion.com
El Gobierno prometió que la primera etapa del aeropuerto de la zona sur estará construida y funcionando a más tardar en el 2010.
(El Articulo ya se ha borrado in La Nacion)