Christophe Harbour where Dreams begin

Christophe Harbour Offers Lifestyle Dreams

By William Doyle-Marshall

How would you know when you find the place you truly want to call home? When you and your wife stop there for a brief visit and she offers you a power of attorney so you can return home and make arrangements to return! And when you find yourself visiting an island which forces you to realize there are possibilities you had never considered before. In addition to being touched by living history and experiencing true, friendly people catering to your needs as though you are a member of their family, the absence of North American concrete jungle influence on your consciousness is hard to ignore. The twin island state of St. Kitts and Nevis is the place of which I speak.

   That’s where you’ll find Christophe Harbour, a 2500 acre property. When in full bloom, it will include a full service marina that would be the hub of the community, where all the activity will happen. It is being designed to incorporate The Pavilion, Beach Bungalows, Outdoor Adventure, Tom Fazio Golf, Salt Plage and Park Hyatt St. Kitts. Developers promise that as a member your family have the remarkable opportunity to make, every day an experience – each completely different, all completely personal. The developers want owners and guest to “engage and energize in the middle of the action or relax and recharge in your private hillside retreat. The Harbour’s collection of amenities enables you to create the lifestyle you’ve always desired in a Caribbean island setting you could only imagine, until now,” Tim Anal, sales representative advised.

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   It is designed to include The Pavilion, Beach Bungalows, Outdoor Adventure, Tom Fazio Golf, Salt Plage and Park Hyatt St. Kitts.  Developers promise that as a member your family have the remarkable opportunity to make, every day an experience – each completely different, all completely personal. “Engage and energize in the middle of the action or relax and recharge in your private hillside retreat. The Harbour’s collection of amenities enables you to create the lifestyle you’ve always desired in a Caribbean island setting you could only imagine, until now,” developers promise.

 Christophe Harbour Development Company is in partnership with Apex Capital Partners Corporation, a Canadian-based international investment group in a joint venture to develop this new residential neighbourhood. The project is set within the existing Sandy Bank Bay community and allows for the development of 50 new, two-bedroom residential villas with an investment value of approximately $50 (US) million at full build out. This agreement adds to the already positive outlook Christophe Harbour had for sales and investment in 2013 with several projects currently underway, including development and planning of the marina and marina village and Park Hyatt St Kitts.

    The family who is developing Christophe Harbour is spending all its time on location dealing with the venture which is scheduled to take 30 years. Under the leadership of Charles P. “Buddy” Darby III, a renowned team of designers, engineers and architects brings this extraordinary venture to life. The attraction to the island for this venture, Tim Anal said are the nature, the natural beauty and the people. Customers who have begun acquiring properties in Christophe Harbour don’t want Las Vegas and they don’t want Walt Disney. They want the natural beauty of this island and its peace and serenity which is untouched. “That’s what they want and that’s the way we want to keep it within Christophe Harbour,” Anal says. There are very strict design and development guidelines. The developers are aware that other islands in the Caribbean have a lot of five star projects to offer but Tim is adamant “what we offer with the marina where you can buy in your own boat slip, we are going to have a golf course here. We will have nine holes ready in 2016 and the following nine in 2017. The Park Hyatt St. Kitts hotel – a five star luxury brand -- will be opening the second quarter of 2016.

  The Hyatt is expected to bring a lot of opportunity to the island as well as Christophe Harbour members and our guests. Being on the property it will give them more options for food because there will be several restaurants in there, Anal said. “There will be luxury spa so with that comes more choices for our guests and for our owners,” he emphasized

  Between 250 and 300 yachts will be the marina when it is completed. They would be between 150 to 300 feet in length. Yachts will pull up. There will be a channel service where yachts can pull in and any kind of service, any kind of groceries, any kind of flowers will be  handled -- everything: from stakes to seafood.  It will be a full service operation. According to the development plans, nothing is going to look like a strip mall. It’s going to have a haphazard appearance like a sort of Medieval Village with its own personality and character.

  “We’ve got services on the island where that is all handled but in here in the marina itself we will have a customs building so that when yachts come into dock, even before they come in, they send their tender in with all of their passports, their citizenship documentation so the yacht owners and their guests can clear customs before the boat even gets to the dock,” said Anal.

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    Inside the customs house they’ll have real estate sales office; captain’s quarters, crews’ quarters, where they can get off the boat and have a place to play baseball, ping pong and just maybe relax and do some Internet and some WIFI and maybe have a state of the arts fitness facility in there. Local artists will be on site to sell their wares

     The first phase of the super yacht marina is under construction currently for 24 slips. They go in range from $1.8 million up to about $3.2 million. It opened in February and by late June 12 were sold.  “They’ve been very well received because we are only one of the places in the world or in the Caribbean where you actually purchase a slip and you get free title to it. You actually own it out right. Most other places in the Caribbean have a 99 or a 50 year lease. Here you buy it, you own it. There are fees. If you buy a slip, the fees will be handled in almost the same way that if you purchased a condominium. It would be a condominium association that would handle that so there would be monthly and yearly fees that would be associated with that slip for maintenance, Anal explained”.