Coralia Development: a smart city facing the Caribbean

At Noval Properties, we understand that real estate development is not merely about constructing buildings, but about creating environments that transform the way people live, work, connect, and enjoy the city.

With that vision, Coralia was born: a development conceived as a smart city in Santo Domingo Este. An asset created to connect foreign and Dominican investors with the development, growth, and expansion of one of the country’s most promising areas. Coralia represents a new way of understanding urban planning in the Dominican Republic: more integrated, more efficient, and prepared for the future.

What does it mean for Coralia to be a smart city?

When we speak of Coralia as a smart city, we are speaking of a development designed to elevate quality of life through four essential pillars: efficient infrastructure, connectivity, sustainability, and urban experiences designed for the future.

This is not only about incorporating technology, but about planning an environment where every element fulfills a function within a large-scale masterplan. Coralia integrates residences, a hotel, a convention center, a culinary market, restaurants, recreational areas, sports facilities, parking, and services, creating an urban ecosystem where living, investing, staying, meeting, and enjoying can all be part of one experience.

This vision makes Coralia far more than a residential complex. It is a city development within the city.

A strategic location in Santo Domingo Este

Coralia is located within the coastal area undergoing development in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic. Its location is one of the development’s key differentiators.

The development borders Avenida España, the boardwalk, and the Caribbean Sea to the south; Avenida Eduardo Brito to the north, with views of Faro a Colón and Los Tres Ojos National Park; and to the west, with views of Puerto Sans Soucí and the Colonial Zone. This connection between sea, city, heritage, nature, and mobility positions Coralia as a privileged enclave within the urban transformation of Santo Domingo Este.

In addition, the development is close to key points: 

• 3 minutes from Puerto Sans Soucí 

• 5 minutes from the National Aquarium 

• 6 minutes from Faro a Colón 

• 13 minutes from the Colonial City

• 20 minutes from the airport 

• 25 minutes from Boca Chica Beach  

• 30 minutes from Juan Dolio Beach

A masterplan designed to integrate uses and experiences

Coralia’s urban intelligence is also reflected in its masterplan. The development includes residential towers, a bridge building, a pool area, a culinary market, recreational areas, a sports zone, parking decks, Avenida España, connection to the Caribbean Sea, a convention center, a hotel, and areas designated for police and fire services.

This planning allows Coralia to operate as a mixed-use development, where different needs are addressed within a single environment. The development responds both to the resident seeking quality of life and to the visitor, the professional, the business traveler, and the investor.

Scale, investment, and a forward-looking vision

Coralia has been conceived as one of the most emblematic developments in the Dominican Republic. The development includes 6 condo-hotel towers of 50 levels, with 3,369 units, as well as a 34-level hotel tower with 240 hotel rooms, 45 apartments, and 3 suites.

This offering is complemented by more than 4,800 parking spaces, restaurants, a culinary market, and a construction area of 713,037 m². The projected investment amounts to USD 1.3 billion, a figure that reflects the scale and ambition of a development poised to shape the country’s urban future.

Within this vision, the convention center will play a key role. Coralia includes a space of more than 12,000 m², with capacity for up to 6,000 people, conceived as the hub for major tourism and business events across the region.

Sustainability and efficient infrastructure

A smart city must also be a responsible city. That is why Coralia incorporates technical efficiency and sustainability criteria in fundamental aspects of a development of this scale.

The development includes a centralized climate control system with consumption-based operation, optimization of energy and thermal consumption, and the reuse of treated water for cooling. It also includes its own wastewater treatment plant, reuse of treated water in internal systems, and responsible solid waste management with separation at source.

In terms of stormwater, Coralia incorporates efficient water capture and absorption, together with infrastructure adapted to minimize flood risk. These elements reinforce the vision of a development planned not only to stand out for its architecture, but also for its efficiency.

Urban experiences to live, work, and enjoy

Coralia is designed to elevate the urban experience to a new standard. Hotel amenities include interior spaces such as a lobby/lounge, coworking, food & beverages area, snack bar, multipurpose room, game room, mini club, and gym.

In its outdoor areas, the development incorporates a pool bar, culinary market, BBQ area, solarium, garden, spa, children’s park, sports facilities, and a beauty center. Likewise, the hotel tower includes amenities such as a lobby bar, gym, spa, event rooms, pools, restaurants, and a sky lounge, subject to alignment with the selected hotel brand.

Coralia, the future of Santo Domingo Este

Coralia begins with a clear vision: to transform a strategic location facing the Caribbean into a new urban benchmark for the Dominican Republic. As a smart city, it brings together planning, scale, connectivity, sustainability, services, and experiences in a single development.

From Noval Properties, we conceive Coralia as an asset that anticipates the future of Santo Domingo Este. A place where the city opens to the sea and a new chapter for the Caribbean begins.