Golden Mile, Puerto Rico

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Popular, Inc. headquarters main building at the Golden Mile.

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The Golden Mile (Spanish: Milla de Oro) is a one mile stretch portion of the Ponce de León Avenue in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The stretch is famous for the abundance of local, federal and international bank and financial company headquarters and buildings, usually side by side of one another, which have led some to call it the "mini Wall Street of the Caribbean"^[1].

1 List of buildings on the Golden Mile
2 Future plans
3 Other notable attributes
4 References

[edit] List of buildings on the Golden Mile

Popular, Inc. headquarters (3 buildings)
Westernbank World Plaza (formerly known as Ponce Bank headquarters)
First BanCorp headquarters
Banco Santander building
Scotiabank building
American International Group (AIG) building
MCS Plaza
Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office building
Municipality of San Juan tower
Royal Bank Plaza
Centrum Plaza
Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources (Departament del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos) building

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[edit] Future plans

The Golden Mile has received criticism from nearby communities for its lonely and dark environment after work hours. In order to foster tourism and economic growth in the area, the state government has planned to convert the district into a more community friendly sector by attracting tourists, visitors, and local residents to the district during after hours through concerts, retail shops, and nightspots. The first phase of this conversion was to locate the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum and a Tren Urbano station right next to the district. Banco Popular finished a recently opened a new project near its headquarters called Fine Arts Cinemas at Popular Center, a movie teather that attracts wealthy people, showing mostly independent films and also having a bar where you can buy alcohol and take it to the movie. New residential apartments are being developed near the Golden Mile, near the Colleseum and a 29 story high comercial complex.