Developing in Costa Rica: what international investors underestimate
Land price and construction cost are the easy numbers. The ones that decide a project’s return are permitting duration, logistics and the quality of local execution.
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Permitting, logistics, labour, imports and the regulatory realities that shape a programme before the first drawing is issued.
How budgets and baselines actually hold: estimating discipline, change management and honest executive reporting.
Brand standards, operator interfaces, FF&E logistics and the sequencing that protects an opening date.
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