As Polo is a business aiming at World investors, an exclusivedevelopment is in progress at Cañuelas district. This Project willinclude a boutique hotel, a club house and various Sports offers.
La Dolfina Polo Ranch is Adolfo Cambiaso’s personal Project, in association with Julio Ernesto Gutiérrez Conte,President of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, and CEO of Grupo America, whorecently made a US15 million investment on the opening of La Dolfinahighly ranked Clothes & Accessories brand name shops.
This undertaking is developed on a 480 hectare area, subdivided in84 various-size plots, – between 3 and 17 hectares- intended for polofans, and with the added value that this Project is being undertaken atLa Dolfina -Cañuelas district- owned by Cambiaso, who is the “Maradona” of polo. This site is intended to becoming a premium centrefor polo playing, and it will include a hotel, and a club house forseveral activities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, restaurants,boutiques and convenience stores.
Mariano Etcheverry, Marketing & Sales Manager at La Dolfina PoloRanch, stated that “the first private fields are in progress. Theinfrastructure works have commenced in 2009 – basic services such asopening of main roads, underground wiring, water and light utilities incommon areas- and we are planning to complete the work this yeartogether with the club polo fields and the club house”
The location, 25 minutes away from Ezeiza district, has a veryexclusive undertaking profile; however it keeps its rural feature aimedat foreign customers having a priority for the outskirts, but who donot want to go through the suburbs to reach the polo club, or traveltoo much, Etcheverry explains.
The master plan is strategically oriented for those who love severalhectare plots facing a lake or a stream and having its own polo fields,including stables, a working/exercise track and other facilities.
Within the area called Polo Club Village there will be a PoloStadium surrounded by two lakes, and to be used for high handicap orexhibition tournaments.
The world polo phenomenon and the growing number of investors aimingat this business in Argentina, was the topic of a recent article by theFinancial Times, which highlights the fact that over 550 breeders areregistered in the country, producing 7000 polo small horses approx.;many of them intended for exportation, paying US 50,000 each for thebest of them.
