Nuevo Polanco (English, "New Polanco") is an area of
Mexico City
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formerly consisting of warehouses and factories, bordering the upscale
Polanco
Polanco is a neighborhood in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City. Polanco is an affluent '' colonia'', noted for its luxury shopping along Presidente Masaryk Avenue, the most expensive street in Mexico, as well as for the numerous pro ...
on the north across Avenida Ejército Nacional. Officially it consists of two ''
colonias'', Granada and Ampliación Granada.
This area is undergoing an accelerated process of re-conversion and development. With a major transformation taking place, it is one of the fastest and most important real estate development areas in the country. Taking advantage of their now prime location, big pieces of land originally occupied mainly by industries are being used to build large housing, office, commercial and cultural developments with shops, restaurants, cinemas, museums, a 1,500-seat theater, a luxury hotel, etc. Many of them integrate in their name the word 'Polanco' thus seeking to capitalize on its reputation.
In October 2013, the Secretariat of Urban Development and Housing (SEDUVI) put a stop to further development until a master plan for dealing with the infrastructure problems was approved. At that time the population of Nuevo Polanco was 76,000, twice as high as originally foreseen, with 23,469 housing units.
[ Nuevo Polanco had gained attention in the international press as an example of how development can go wrong if there is no proper planning for infrastructure.
The area has now largely been converted into new shopping and mixed-use developments. These include:
* Acuario Inbursa, Mexico's largest aquarium, opened in June 2014
* ]Antara Polanco
Antara, previously branded as Antara Polanco and Antara Fashion Hall, is an upscale open-air shopping center in the Nuevo Polanco section of the upscale district of Polanco, Mexico City. It hosts a concentration of boutiques of global luxury brand ...
a fashionable shopping and restaurants center, built on the land previously occupied by a General Motors de Mexico
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car assembly plant
* Plaza Carso
Plaza Carso is a large mixed-use development in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, backed by billionaire Carlos Slim. The total cost of the complex is quoted between US$800 million and 1.4 billion. The complex claims to be the ...
, a large cultural, commercial, office and living complex owned by Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helú (; born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business oligarch, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by ''Forbes'' business magazine. He derived his fortune from his e ...
, built on the land formerly occupied by General Popo-General Tire battery and tire plant. The total cost of the complex is quoted between USD 800 million and 1.4 billion. The complex claims to be the largest mixed-use development in Latin America
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["Quiénes somos", Plaza Carso website, retrieved April 13, 2013]
/ref> and includes the following components:
**Museo Soumaya
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, owned by the Carlos Slim Foundation. The museum contains the Slim's extensive art, religious relic, historical document, and coin collection. The museum holds works by many of the best known European artists from the 15th to the 20th century including a large collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin
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. The building is a shiny silver cloud-like structure reminiscent of a Rodin
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sculpture.[
** ]Museo Júmex Museo may refer to:
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* Museo station, station on line 1 of the Naples Metro
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, opening November 2013, to house part of the Colección Jumex
Colección Jumex is a private art collection owned by Eugenio López Alonso. The collection is housed at Museo Jumex, the main outpost of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, located in the Polanco neighborhood in Mexico City. The museum opened ...
, the contemporary art collection of the Jumex
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juice company.
** Plaza Carso
Plaza Carso is a large mixed-use development in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, backed by billionaire Carlos Slim. The total cost of the complex is quoted between US$800 million and 1.4 billion. The complex claims to be the ...
shopping center, featuring an Saks Fifth Avenue
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store, the second to have opened in Mexico. Together with the atrium this section measures .
** Teatro Cervantes theater, seating 1500
** Residential tower
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s: Torre Dalí, Torre Monet and Torre Rodin[
**Office towers, two of 23 floors each, and one of 20 floors. The three buildings are joined on the lower 3 levels by an atrium and the shopping center.][ The towers are: Torre ]Telcel
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- the headquarters of América Móvil
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are here; Torre Falcon, and Torre Zurich.
* Miyana, one of the largest mixed-use development
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s in the city, consisting of apartment buildings, a VIP Cinepolis, several stores and tens of restaurants and eating places.
*Grand Polanco, developed on the land previously occupied by a Chrysler franchise
* Parques Polanco, first occupied by Fábricas Automex, a Chrysler car assembly plant
*Portika Polanco
*Ventanas Polanco
*Terret Polanco (office complex, under construction), located in land previously used by a factory producing yeast
*Polarea, located on the grounds until recently occupied the plant of Vitro, a glass factory.
*Alto Polanco (apartments, under construction), on the grounds previously housing the H. Steele y Compañía office furniture factory (formerly the Cia. Hulera Euzkadi tire plant)
The new headquarters of the United States Embassy in Mexico will be located in New Polanco, a large complex to be built on land previously used for a Colgate-Palmolive
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plant.
References
External links
* Ramírez, Kenya.
Alistan plan maestro para Nuevo Polanco
" ''Excélsior
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The newspaper's headquarters are located at Avenida Buc ...
''. June 1, 2014.
{{Polanco, Mexico City
Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
Neighborhoods in Mexico City
Mixed-use developments in Mexico
Shopping districts and streets in Mexico