From January to June 2020, 57 environmental impact studies were presented for the construction of commercial buildings in Central American countries, and most of them are concentrated in Costa Rica and El Salvador.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", of the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects that present environmental impact studies (EIS) to the respective institutions in each country.
In the first quarter of the year, 127 environmental impact studies were presented for the construction of commercial buildings in Central American countries, with Costa Rica and Guatemala representing most of the estimated investment.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData, includes an up to date list of public and private construction projects for which environmental impact studies (EIA) were submitted to the respective institutions of each country.
In the municipality of Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad, construction began on a new shopping center that will have a total built area of 2,709 square meters.
According to investors, work on the new shopping center, which will be called "Soma", began three months ago and currently the project is 30% complete. Completion of the project is scheduled for November or December.
During 2018, 345 environmental impact studies were presented for the construction of commercial buildings in Central American countries, with Costa Rica and El Salvador representing the largest share of the estimated investment.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData, includes an up to date list of public and private construction projects for which environmental impact studies (EIA) were submitted to the respective institutions of each country.
In El Salvador, Agrisal Group began construction of a shopping center of 200 stores and 80,000 square meters, at kilometer 12 of the Troncal del Norte highway.
The new shopping center called "Plaza Mundo Apopa", which is expected to meet the demand of people in the northern part of the department of San Salvador, will have 200 stores and a daily flow of 25,000 visitors is expected.
Grupo Agrisal announced that in order to expand the Plaza Mundo shopping center it will invest $7 million in the construction of new infrastructure and remodeling works.
Representatives of the project stated that the investment will include the construction of 4,000 m2and the remodeling 6,000 m2. With the extension of the building that is located in the city of Soyapango, department of El Salvador, 40 new stores will be added and with this increase the shopping center will have a total of 400 stores.
In the past 12 months, 165 environmental impact studies, valued at $350 million, were submitted for the development of shopping centers, supermarkets, department stores and other types of commercial buildings in the region.
Data from the interactive platform "Construction in Central America", compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData:
Construction has started in Santa Ana of a building measuring 16 thousand square meters which will make up the second stage of Metrocentro, which will be ready in March 2017.
The second stage of the mall by Grupo Roble will have 75 new stores, distributed in 10,200 of the 16,000 total square meters comprising the new area.The works started on June 29 and will be developed over the next 15 months.
Parking tower blocks, residential developments, hydraulic works, hotels and office buildings are some of the projects for which environmental impact studies were submitted in June.
The report "Construction Projects in Costa Rica - June 2015", prepared by the Business Intelligence unit at CentralAmericaData.COM, contains a detailed list of major construction projects for which environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies were presented to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) in June.