Construction of the LoopLand Hotel, a $200 million property that will become the first hotel that will open on the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in 2022, was announced Thursday. The proposal presented by the company behind the project, Brillembourg Group, calls for redeveloping about 750 former military homes on the former base in Ceiba […]
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.5 million grant to the Roosevelt Roads Redevelopment Authority to rehabilitate a building and make other infrastructure improvements on former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads. The EDA grant will support early-stage businesses focused on the visitor economy and is […]
The Puerto Rico government has signed a collaborative agreement with Florida-based RS&H Inc. to conduct a feasibility study to establish a commercial spaceport at the José Aponte de la Torre Airport, in the former Roosevelt Roads naval base in Ceiba. The study will cost $75,000 and should be ready by June 30, 2019. “We believe […]