Voor de Europese markt heeft Forest Returns vandaag in Amsterdam een alliantie gesloten met Estatement van Walter Schouten & Jeannette Leopold.

Het betreft een gezamenlijke propositie aan andere serieuze en solide Europese investeerders buiten Nederland die daadwerkelijk geïnteresseerd zijn in het mede-eigenaarschap van duurzame landgoederen, waarbij Forest Returns als `founding eagle` vanaf den beginne is betrokken zoals met name Hacienda la Esperanza in Costa Rica onder het motto ¡Pura Vida! (het pure leven).

Waarmee de tijdelijke `website link`, het hiernaast te `downloaden` pdf-document, het separate foto-album en onderstaande Engelstalige teksten zijn verklaard:

Sustainable Country Estate in Costa Rica (Nicoya Peninsula)
 
Executive Summary
The focus of this multifunctional country estate in Costa Rica will be on:

• Hospitality & Care: ocean view resort & lodging on ‘Esperanza’,
• Forestry: existing plantations of teak, ‘poyote’ & eucalyptus; also bamboo,
• Aquaculture: fishery, Tilapia farm; regaining drinking water from springs.

The existing owners of Hacienda la Esperanza offer through Estatement:

• all existing properties including seven farms (‘Finca’s’) for the special price of € 7.000.000,
• the opportunity to obtain and realise the resort ‘La Mirada Aguileña’ (‘Escritura’-property),
• the opportunity to realise the vital parts of the existing Seven Years Master-plan.

The average Return on Investment is based on the expected increase in value of the properties in the first place and the net profits from successful exploitation in the second place.

Description Existing Country Estate ‘Hacienda la Esperanza’ (= hope)
In 2004 ‘Founding Eagle’ Forest Returns bought an area of 1.000 acres (‘Esperanza vieja’). With help of other investors, a separate Dutch entity, named Vereenigde Costaricaanse Compagnie bv (VCC), was founded in 2007. After that six different but adjacent areas from four different Costa Rican families have been obtained until 2010. From the beginning a Seven Years Master-plan 2007 -2014 was developed. Since then this plan has been actualised and revised. Our present 2.281 acres ‘con Escritura’ and 472 acres ‘sin Escritura’ (80% has already been (pre)paid by VCC) country estate ‘Esperanza Nueva’ is more than just a hotel or luxurious eco lodge resort.

The always green southern part of Peninsula de Nicoya is one of Costa Rica`s most cherished gems and became worldwide known as Blue Zone Number One (based upon a seven years study by Dan Buettner of National Geographic). From the hilly interior the mountains slope down to the ‘Oceano Pacífico’, creating some of the most beautiful and peaceful Costa Rican beaches.

All assets of ‘Esperanza’ are property of VCC.
 
Activities within revised Seven Years Master-plan

• obtaining the very promising resort ‘La Mirada Aguileña’ 
• reconstructing ‘La Mirada Aguileña’ as a recovery & care centre
• improvement of infra structure on ‘La Mirada Aguileña’ & ‘Esperanza’
• creation of nature reserve; building houses for rangers
• starting to collect pure drinking water in co-operation with authorities
• restoration of the former farmer’s house ‘Finca San Fernando’
• reshaping ‘Laguna La Esperanza’ and further landscaping
• building restaurant, reception & storage area (‘bodega’) at this lake 
• building river lodges in old 19th century Costa Rican country style
• building a teak bridge (River Kwai Bridge alike) across the ‘Río Arío
• building collective hospitality area (swimming pool; ‘Piscina Maya’)
• completing the village ‘El Pueblo Río Arío’ incl. rural shops (artefacts)
• construction of sidewalks, tracks for bikes, horses & solar driven cars
• building watch tower for bird watching; ‘Aguilera’ (where eagles dare)
• building mountain lodges near ‘Los Cedros’ (‘El Pueblo Las Cascadas’)
• constructing heliport close to ‘El Pueblo Las Cascadas’
• building residential mountain villas for ‘pensionado’s’; ‘Reyes Magos’

Further pictures are shown in separate photo album.