Gardens of Dreams Costa Rica

June 23 , 2006 - Jardines de Ensuenos - New Professionals and Sales Agreement

Last week I updated the Professionals page on our website but thought that it would be a good idea to point out the specific changes in a newsletter as well, since many of our readers have been on our list for some time many will not think to go to the website to see changes like these when they occur. I have added the additional engineers we have brought on line to ensure that we have a well designed cutting edge product to deliver to all our future owners and customers. However more importantly you may also choose to browse down to the Lawyers section where we have announced a change in legal team handling all our needs and those of our owners. We are most pleased to announce this especially since they are not driving me crazy as the previous one was.

You will also note I have attached our new Sales Agreement hot off the press as Rick just completed it this week. Hence he accomplished in a few days what two months of nagging our previous lawyer could not accomplish. That may well give you an idea as to why I say the previous "professional was driving me crazy".

If you would like a copy of Roger's book, "The Legal Guide to Costa Rica - Roger A. Petersen" for your reference library if you care to be on top of the basic legal issues here just drop me a note and I can send it to you. He charges $25 per copy but we will cover the shipping.

Architectural and Engineering Team
Plan Arquitectura ELC S.A.Erika Lutz – Architect Received her License in 1993 after graduating from Universidad Studium Generale in San Jose.Raquel Gonzalez Mayorga – Architect Received her License in 2000 after graduating from Universidad de Costa Rica.Their many and varied contracts have included the most notables of: CIMA Hospital San Jose 22,000 sq. m, Los Suenos Port Authority Office 500 sq.m, Los Suenos Resort Offices 5,000 sq. m, Various Condominiums in Los Suenos including – Del Mar 27,000 sq.m, Del Golf 17,000 sq.m, Veranda 13,300 sq.m, Montebello 7,000 sq.m. As you can see they have a wealth of experience especially concerning condominium projects. To translate this in order for the reader to realize the full magnitude of this experience what this amounts to in total at Los Suenos alone is over 760,000 square feet or what would equal between one and two entire city subdivisions. DEHC Ingenieros Consultores
Guillermo Carazo Ramirez – Engineer, vise presidentEstablished in 1973, with the current employee compliment of approximately 100, that provides services at all levels of civil, electrical and telecommunications disciplines for design and site supervisions. Their contract list includes notables of Papagayo Tourism Project, Four Seasons Hotel, Marriott Hotel, Hotel Melia Conchal, Hotel Condovac, The Forum Business Park, Multiplaza Mall, Juan Santamaria Airport, Commercial Center Itzkazu, as well as over 16 Residential Project sub-divisions. More detailed information can be found at: www.dehc.com.This is the largest engineering firm in the country hence to say the least more than capable and competent to service our project in a most time effective manner, additionally our architectural team has had extensive experience working with this group on many projects hence they have a strong working relationship that will additionally insure a smooth running project.
Michael S. Pawluk – Architectural Consultant, site and design coordinator of the project with over 40 years experience in architecture, development, and construction field.
We are extremely pleased to have secured their services as part of our team giving us great confidence in efficient local facilitation especially considering the extensive work, experience and in-depth working relationships and knowledge of the local municipality of Garabito. Please note that this Architectural and Engineering team has successfully built way more square meters of construction in the Central Pacific area than anyone else in the entire country! Hence we know that our project will proceed as efficiently and expediently as is humanly possible with the many vigilant eyes keeping our scheduling and quality concerns under constant scrutiny. We as developers take great comfort in this fact hence to say the least we are very confident in announcing the completion of the team that will successfully deliver yet another project for the benefit of all of our perspective owners.

Structural Engineer
Estru Consult S.A. – Orlando Gei ING.
Orlando’s firm has also done all the structural work on the Los Suenos project, also Plaza Coral the new mall currently under construction at the entry to our street as well many others over his career. You can find a job list on their site http://www.estru.com/.

Electrical & Mechanical Engineer
Greentech Group
Frank Czul ING. PHD.
Frank was brought to the team to work as our consultant on all issues relating to energy consumption and life cyle costs of all mechanical and electrical systems for the project as his doctorate specialized in energy conservation. Our project is designed to be an example of state of the state-of-the-art energy efficiency with the utmost attention paid to the lowest operational costa as is humanly possible. The object is not only to lower our operating costs but to also emphasize our corporate image and ethics in keeping our drain on the grid system in the country to the lowest possible values thusly reducing the need for more hydro projects and the environmental damage such inevitably leads to.
http://www.greentech.co.cr/

1.2 Legal Advisor and Auditor
Alliance Law Group S.R.L.
W. Richard Philps
In Costa Rica: 011-506- 288-4381
228-7094
e-mail: rphilps@alliancelaw.co.cr

We are very pleased to have this legal team at work for us and our owners as they cover a most unusual breadth of the law not common here with nine lawyers in their group seven of which are Tico lawyers covering all the national issues. However the most significant additions to the team for our purposes are Richard Philps who is dual licensed in British Columbia as well as here hence he is most well equiped to assist our Canadian owners. Additionally another partner in the firm is Roger Petersen who is also dual licensed in Florida as well as Costa Rica and is author of the book “ The Legal Guide to Costa Rica - Roger A. Petersen Ed.#4.” This firm offers full escorw services with a registered and audited trust account, something not very common here at all. They also offer Title Insurance through First Fidelity that some may choose to purchase when the time comes. Thusly we believe the firm to be one of the best in the country being very well suited to assit both our Canadian and U.S. owners in understanding all three systems of law and any significant interactions between them and how it affects our owners.