Project with French Meridien group expected to cost $200-million by Peter Kennedy Leisure Canada Inc, a Vancouver company headed by property developer Walter Berukoff, has signed a preliminary deal with the Meridien Hotels & Resorts group to build three five-star hotels in Cuba. view the entire article | pdf source: Globe and Mail
Maclean’s magazine did a story on Cuba and Walter Berukoff was mentioned. Many Canadians ,may detest it, but Helms-Burton is having an impact by Nomi Morris With hammer’s clamnging and drills whining, laborers at Havana’s Jose Marti airport are rushing to finish an airy new terminal building by the end of this month. Overseen by…
Maclean’s magazine did a story on Cuba and Walter Berukoff was mentioned. by Peter C Newman According to Marcos Portal Leon’s business card, he is the Minister of Basic Industry in the Cuban Government of Fidel Castro. In fact, he is in charge of reviving the Cuban economy by establishing business ventures for foreign entrepreneurs.…
Time magazine did a story on Cuba and Walter Berukoff was mentioned. After years of being locked out of the island, US hoteliers link up with those who have the keys by Bernard Baumohl For an officially embargoed “enemy” of the US, Cuba seems to be getting pretty popular with American tourists and businessman. There…
Helms-Burton has steered investors away from putting cash into Cuba but Vancouver’s Walter Berukoff says he’s done his homework by Derek McNaughton A Vancouver mining entrepreneur is about to dig up some more earth with construction of the first of 4,200 rooms over 11 hotels – on the forbidden island of Cuba. Running upstream to…
$400-million Canadian hotel joint-venture to add 4,200 rooms by 2006, McConnell Valdes already registering clients’ trademarks – just in case by Pedro Smith While Puerto Rico proudly boasts of the addition of 3,000 new hotel rooms in the past four years, Cuba is quietly working on the construction of 27,000 new rooms by the year…
by Robert Selwitz Vancouver, British Columbia – A private Canadian company has formed a joint venture with Grand Caribe, one of Cuba’s state hotel companies, to build 11 new hotels over a 10-year period. The properties will represent about 4,200 guest rooms. Walter Berukoff, president and CEO of Vancouver-based Miramar Mining, is the man behind…