Golden Mile, Puerto Rico

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

The Golden Mile (Spanish: Milla de Oro) is a nickname given to 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 "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 (Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos) building
José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum (Coliseo de Puerto Rico)

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[edit] Future plans

Night view of the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. Photo taken from the nearby Tren Urbano Station in the Golden Mile.

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 showing mostly independent films and a bar, where you can buy alcohol and take it in the cinema. New residential apartments are being developed near the Golden Mile, near the Coliseum and a 29 story high comercial complex.