What do Miami, Paris, Dubai and Marbella have in common? Above all they are all destinations of the legendary Four Seasons, and not only for a new luxury hotel. It won’t be just one of 111 resorts and 39 residences that the reputable company built in 46 countries. A unique project will deliver a tourist resort complex of a special type. It is a luxury hotel for the modern traveller and private luxury residences on the beachfront. The plot of 400,000m2 with allowance to build 100,000m2 and 700 m of beach is located at the entrance of Marbella.
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International project
Villa Padierna owns the land, belonging to Malaga businessman Ricardo Arranz. He has also partnered with North American firm Fort Partners and Belgian real estate company Inmobel. Four Seasons certainly will not only manage the hotel, but also the private residences and villas. The complex will also include internationally-renowned restaurants that will come to Spain solely for this project.
The luxury hotel resort will be the brainchild of architect Richard Meier and those involved in the project describe it as marvel. It will open in 2020.
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Beginning of a new era
Marbella begins “a new era” in this type of tourism, as the president of Villa Padierna Ricardo Arranz said. “What happened to Miami? Before it began to have great brands, it did not grow much as destination”.
It will certainly kindle a ‘new era’ in luxury tourism in Marbella. Ricardo Arranz, President of Villa Padierna, who are partners in the project, said: “Marbella and Madrid need the glamour that these types of brands give. Arranz added that the residences on the complex will allow for the very wealthy to stay for up to two months at a time.
The first brick of the new Four Seasons was laid on October 5. The ceremony also attended the ‘Who’s Who’ of business and politics in Andalucía and Spain: president of Junta de Andalucía, Susana Diaz, Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier Fernández; President of Provincial Tourism Board of the Costa del Sol, Elías Bendodo; president of Andalusian Business Confederation Javier González Lara, president of Villa Padierna Ricardo Arranz, mayor of Marbella, Angeles Munoz. Marbella also saw a lot of very respectable guests: General Secretary of the World Tourism Organization, Zurab Pololikashvili, Four Seasons’s CEO Allen Smith, Fort Partners’ founder, Nadim Ashi, executive president of the Belgian Immobel, Marnix Galle, and others.
The land for the buildings of the Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences Marbella is also “fully urbanized”, waiting for construction to begin. The numbers are impressive: 650 mln. euros of investments and more than 2,000 temporary and 750 permanent jobs to create.
Finally one of the most luxurious tourist complexes in Spain will to open its doors in two years.
How lucky we are to have it all at hand in one of the most wonderful places on Earth. Welcome to Marbella!