Deserted to Dense
December 28th, 2009
Imagine the guy who worked for the Mexican government, who was responsible for pulling up to this deserted island in 1970 and starting a new habitable paradise. I mean really. This island was forgotten sitting in a forgotten part of the Caribbean just breathing its own clean air up to 1969. No one even knew it was there really. Even the name of it was not really clear. The name finally developed as a phonetic take on the original Kan Kun. The guy did bring his developers to begin the first plans in 1970. They started with the road that went from Puerto Juarez to Cancun. Then they were going to build an air port. Yes this was going to be a tourist island. That was the definite plan from the beginning.
So the three phases of the building of the paradise went a little like this: Build the tourism zone with hotels, shopping centers, golf courses and marina, build the permanent residential community, and get the airport up and running. So the hotel zone was built with the first phase going from Bahla de Mujeres over to Punta Cancun and then it went up to Bojorquez Lagoon. Then came the stretch that went from Bojorquez Lagoon on to Punta Nizuc. The third development went from Punta Nizuc heading south to the territorial reserve. They went on to build the infrastructure for the basics of running water and then onto the buildings themselves. Like building blocks in the jungle the hotels and malls rose. In 1974, the first three hotels opened. They were the Playa Blanca, Cancun Caribe and the Bojorquez. The airport was rolling and could accommodate larger planes.
Now people were starting to come from all over to stay in a new hotel. Cancun was now becoming a major contributor to the economy of Mexico. By 1989 it was the nations most incredible city and now in present day is the countries largest tourism resort city with more than 500,000 people living there. It has also taken the Caribbean by storm, like a hurricane, this city has become a top destination vacation spot sitting next to the Bahamas and Puerto Rico.
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