The founder of Invest Mazatlan, Sylwia DeSoto, elected to be the first woman & the first foreigner member of the Board of Directors of the Mazatlan section of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Agents.

Mazatlan 1st environmentally-friendly community was announced in January. It is a breakthrough in the real estate community that will hopefully set a pattern and a high benchmark for other developments in town. The community is called Boardwalk Residences (www.boardwalkresidences.com) and it will be located on the Malecon.

The President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, has placed the first stone inaugurating a mega project in Escuinapa/Teacapan. The project is supported by FONATUR and it will be “the New Cancun” with 2000 hotel rooms scheduled to be available by 2012. Once completed the overall complex is to include four golf courses, two marinas for a total of 1,000 vessels, 44,200 hotel rooms, a five mile beachfront walk, and a light railway.