 Panoramic view of Santa Fe Santa Fe is one of Mexico City's major central business districts, located west of the city in the delegaciones (boroughs) of Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón. The main access to the district is by Paseo de la Reforma and its extensions. Santa Fe consists mainly of building highrises built around a large shopping mall (Centro Comercial Santa Fe), although it also has a residential area and college campuses, among other facilities. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1176x345, 56 KB) Santa Fe (Mexico City) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Santa Fe (Mexico City) ...
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(Spanish: Ciudad de México, México D.F. or simply México, pronounced IPA: ) is the capital city of the nation of Mexico. ...
A Central business district (CBD) or downtown is a commercial heart of a city. ...
Cuajimalpa (formally: Cuajimalpa de Morelos) is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ...
Ãlvaro Obregón is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ...
Paseo de la Reforma (Reform Avenue) is a 12 km long grand avenue in Mexico City. ...
Taipei 101, the worlds tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise. ...
A shopping mall (or simply mall), shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. ...
History
 Santa Fe, Mexico City's new business district After the 1985 earthquakes, Mexico City’s inhabitants and businesses began to move from central areas of the city towards the western suburbs--this migration mainly due to the congestion and earthquake prone soil of central Mexico City. This movement started in the 1950’s with the creation of Las Lomas and continued in the following decades with the creation of newer neighborhoods like Bosques de las Lomas and La Herradura in the western hills of the city. One of the first structures built there (late 1980s) was the new campus for the Universidad Iberoamericana which lost its main campus during an earthquake in 1979. Image File history File linksMetadata Santa_fe4mxc. ...
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The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was one of the most devastating earthquakes in the history of the Americas. ...
Las Lomas is a neighborhood in Mexico City in the delegación (borough) of Miguel Hidalgo. ...
The Ibero-American University (in Spanish: Universidad Iberoamericana) its a private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus. ...
This page refers to the year 1979. ...
This during the government of President Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994), the Federal District was still governed directly by the federal government through the Federal District Department which was headed by Manuel Camacho Solís. It was during his administration that the master plan to use the land that has been used as landfill and for sand mining. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
The Mexican Federal District, known in Spanish as Distrito Federal (D.F.), is an area within Mexico that is not part of any of the Mexican states, but an independent self-governing city-state and the seat of the Federal Government. ...
Manuel Camacho SolÃs (b. ...
The fact that the land was strategically situated near high income neighborhoods and the new toll road to Toluca was an important considerations, however it was (an still is) also surrounded by the low income Pueblo de Santa Fe. Toluca is a city in México State in central Mexico, at 19. ...
The master plan called for a planned community that included business, schools, housing and retail sectors. The master plan and the design were made at a time when there were great expectations about the Mexican economy and big plans were made including a huge shopping mall.
However the 1994 Mexican economic crisis changed all that and a lot of the development of the area was halted, cut back or cancelled. Only some offices and the mall were built. It has taken almost ten years, and the present City wide building boom, for big development to resume. The 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, widely known as the Mexican peso crisis, was triggered by the sudden devaluation of the Mexican peso in the early days of the presidency of Ernesto Zedillo. ...
Area specifications - Divided into 10 sectors: downtown, Cruz Manca, La Fe, La Loma, La Mexicana, Totolapa, Paseo de las Lomas, Peña Blanca, Bosques de Santa Fe and the school zone
- 13.80% of the total area of offices in the city
- Commercial rent between 20 and 25 dollars for square meter in a class A+ (highest) building
- 70,000 employees
- 4,311 families live there
- 8 millions of visitants to the shopping mall per year
- 4 universities
- 13,500 students
Criticism Santa Fe was designed as a planned community; however urbanists designed it as a car centric suburb and left it without a human scale. Depending who you ask Santa Fe is either cutting edge development ripe for imitation, or it is on the verge of disaster[1]. There are very little road connections to the rest of the city, public transportation is almost non existent and public infrastructure and space for pedestrians is very limited. This result in big traffic jams and decreased quality of life. Image File history File linksMetadata Santa_fe1mxc. ...
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According to some, social segregation may be a more serious problem than the lack of infrastructure. Since the Pueblo of Santa Fe had already existed there before the office and apartment towers are also surrounded by humble neighborhoods of cinderblock apartments stacked precariously on the slopes. The lack of road connections and its location in the edge of the city increase the island effect. Beyond its function as a business hub, Santa Fe is not a magnet for nightlife or recreational activities, as are Polanco or Condesa. Even its huge shopping mall is relatively underutilized and its rents are well bellow shopping malls (Perisur, Plaza Satelite) in more established neighborhoods. Polanco is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. ...
Condesa is a neighborhood in the central borough of Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. ...
Perisur (also Centro Comercial Perisur) is a shopping mall located in the Coyoacán borough in the south of Mexico City at the intersection of Insurgentes Avenue and Anillo Periférico, next to UNAM main Campus in Ciudad Universitaria and to the Jardines del Pedregal upscale nighborhood. ...
Today Despite the criticism Santa Fe continues its development. However, the lack of infrastructure and over-investment have created an oversupply of commercial real estate. According to Colliers the vacancy rate in Santa Fe is 27 percent (2005), the highest in the city. This oversupply in the commercial real estate market can also be seen in the monthly rent, having been the highest in the city for A+ buildings it is now in well in the average c (range of 25 to 20 dollars per square meter) bellow central Paseo de la Reforma and Polanco markets. Image File history File links Santa_fe2mxc. ...
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Paseo de la Reforma (Reform Avenue) is a 12 km long grand avenue in Mexico City. ...
Polanco is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. ...
References Logo of El Universal El Universal is a major Mexican newspaper. ...
See also A Central business district (CBD) or downtown is a commercial heart of a city. ...
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