Playa del Carmen’s Future Plaza La Isla Shopping Center Gets a Location

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo — The future Plaza La Isla shopping center, announced Tuesday by Mayor Estefanía Mercado, will be built on a vacant lot across from the motocross track along Federal Highway 307 (Playa del Carmen Boulevard), between CTM and 34th Avenues.

The location was revealed in an environmental impact statement filed by the developer with the federal Environment Ministry. The lot spans 86,000 square meters and covers nearly an entire city block, except for the space occupied by the El Campesino soccer field.

According to the document, the project has a construction budget of 450 million pesos and an annual maintenance cost of 31 million pesos.

The shopping center will feature 17 buildings with retail stores, movie theaters, restaurants, bars, a bowling alley, entertainment games, and administrative offices. It will also include six food kiosks, an outdoor play area, two service areas (with restrooms, ATMs, and phones), a covered parking lot, plus gardens and plaza spaces.

“The project has all the relevant licenses and permits for water, electrical, construction, and land-use compatibility,” the environmental impact statement states, adding details about service use and the environmental impact of clearing the land.

The developers emphasized that only one protected plant species exists on the site, which can be transplanted, and that the unfenced lot is currently used as an illegal dump. Due to fragmentation, no native flora or protected fauna remain.