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

Buildings of the Golden Mile as viewed from PR-22.

Popular, Inc. headquarters (3 buildings)
Westernbank World Plaza (formerly known as Ponce Bank headquarters)
First BanCorp headquarters
The Hato Rey Center (formerly known as Home Mortgage Plaza)
Banco Santander building
Scotiabank building
American International Group (AIG) building
MCS Plaza (Formerly Pan-Am Plaza)
Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office building
Municipality of San Juan tower
AON Center
Citibank Tower
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)
BBVA Plaza (formerly Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza)
Eurobank Building
Hato Rey Train Station
Roosevelt Train Station
Aquablue at the Golden Mile (under construction)
Quantum Metrocenter (under construction)
Uruguay 269 (under construction)
Coliseum Tower (completed)
Metropolis (under construction)
Infinity (under Construction)
[Torre Mayor]http://www.torremayorpr.com

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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 several Tren Urbano stations in the district. Banco Popular recently inaugurated a new project near its headquarters called Fine Arts Cinemas at Popular Center, a state-of-the-art repertory cinema exhibiting foreign and independent films and a deli-café with a varied menu including coffee, beer and wine. New residential apartments and a 31 story high commercial complex near the Coliseum are being developed in the area as well.