Sonoran Paradise Island Resort from elazulestudio on Vimeo.
Someone posted this video on the local Viva San Carlos forum, and watching it, I began feeling queasy. Frightened, then angry, then disgusted. It's an architectural plan meant to excite investors, and whoever made it I suspect never actually set foot in San Carlos. Rodeo Drive-style shopping mall, a condo tower out on what looks to be Honeymoon Island with acres of dirt dredged up to enlarge it. Beltranes Blvd sweeping past miles of housing developments that look like Southern California.
For one thing, they left out images of the humungous desalinization plant that would be required to support such an endeavor. We already have serious water shortages here. It's the desert, for pity's sake!
A thundering soundtrack complete with heavenly chorus. "We will not be deterred," is the message. Local response was surprisingly blasé, with comments like "Bring it on," and "If they make this place into a resort it will mean work for lots of locals both in construction and the service industry..." and "This is a Fonatur project... this is the branch of the Government that built Cancun, Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Huatulco and Manzanillo." Yikes!
One person's dream, another person's nightmare.
All I can hope is that if they're successful, it won't be in my lifetime.