The selection of San Juan Cruise Port as operator was announced in August 2022. #NewsismyBusiness
Pier 3 is used mostly by cruise ships in transit. #NewsismyBusiness
The Catedral de San Juan Bautista, Iglesia Santa Ana and the Capilla Santo Cristo de la Salud are all significant structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places. #NewsismyBusiness
The availability of co-working spaces, like Piloto151, made Puerto Rico stand out in the ranking.
Work should be done by November, the agency stated.
Construction of a new $20 million passenger building complex on San Juan’s Pier 3 will get underway in March, when Duty Free Americas will break ground on the project, Puerto Rico Ports Authority Executive Director Joel Pizá confirmed. The two-story building — which will house a Duty Free shop on the ground floor and 16,000 […]
The San Sebastián Street Festival, celebrated every year in January for four days straight in Old San Juan, will not be held in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, eliminating crowds, sales, and limiting the exposure of independent vendors in the historic zone, this media outlet confirmed through several interviews. This week, San […]
The emblematic structure in front of the Plaza de Armas in Old San Juan, which originally housed the Provincial Council of Spain in Puerto Rico, will open its doors as a historic hotel later this month. The property underwent a $12 million renovation to house 43 rooms, an open-air restaurant, event hall, a library, and […]
Puerto Rico-based business internet service provider AeroNet this week launched a new, advanced Wi-Fi service in Old San Juan, in partnership with Facebook Connectivity. The new service is powered by Facebook Connectivity’s Express Wi-Fi platform, which will enable AeroNet to provide its Wi-Fi service in a sustainable and scalable way, and Terragraph, a gigabit wireless […]
High-speed business internet service provider AeroNet announced it will pilot Terragraph, a gigabit wireless technology by Facebook Connectivity, in Old San Juan. With Terragraph, AeroNet aims to deliver reliable and affordable high-speed broadband to the historic city. The trial deployment will improve on the city’s digital infrastructure and ensure greater availability of broadband services for […]
Business Internet service provider AeroNet announced it has partnered with Siae Microelettronica Inc. to deliver network infrastructure to provide broadband to the Old San Juan historic district. Faced with the challenges of providing 10Gbps services in the zone, where there is limited fiber availability, AeroNet opted for a multi-band-link wireless solution offering fiber-like capacity, said […]
Developer McCormack Baron Salazar, in a public-partnership with the Puerto Rico Department of Housing, unveiled the new $41.3 million Bayshore Villas mixed-income apartment community in Old San Juan, near Bahía Urbana.
An estimated 17,000 cruise ship passengers are expected to arrive in Old San Juan today, a visit that is expected to pump some $1.5 million into the local economy.
Old San Juan, a sector that is home to at least 800 businesses and 500 commercial offices, has been in the dark for the better part of the last six weeks, which have kept many from reopening since Hurricane María made landfall on Sept. 20.
The La Perla neighborhood Community Board announced Wednesday the culmination of the revitalization that included the renovation of 375 façades in just 40 days, at a cost of $80,000.
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