In Cancun, the international hotel chain Riu is building another hotel on the ruins of El Pueblito.
Riu has started construction a few days ago on a hotel in the ruins of El Pueblito, in Cancun, which closed its doors in 2005 due to the effects of Hurricane Wilma. The new hotel of the Spanish chain will have about 700 rooms and will be finished in a year and a half.
According to tourist sources, it is one of the few plots of land available in Cancun to build hotels. With this new establishment, Riu increases its presence in Cancun, where it is the first hotel chain in number of rooms.
After almost two decades of being abandoned and after several attempts to build on the site, a month ago the demolition of the few remaining buildings and remodeling of what is still in good condition within the grounds of what was the Hotel El Pueblito, located next to Playa Delfines, in the area known as La Herradura, finally began.
After Hurricane Wilma in 2005, the place was practically in ruins and not even a group of security guards could prevent the little that remained from being stolen. Its owners tried to get it back on its feet, but they were unable to do so.
El Pueblito was a four-star hotel with just under 400 rooms, located at kilometer 17.5 of Kukulcán Boulevard. Although it was not one of the first to be built in the hotel zone of Cancun, it stood out for its privileged location and the very Mexican style of its facilities.
In 2017, a group of businessmen acquired the property and promoted environmental permits before the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat). That same year, they obtained authorization for the “Kukulkan project” that contemplated the construction of 687 rooms in buildings of up to 20 floors. Although there was work to clean and prepare the land, it stopped after a few months and it was abandoned again.
As revealed by REPORTUR.mx, Araf had acquired the property after the destructive hurricane Wilma in 2005, where the El Pueblito hotel was located.
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