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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Saturday, 30 May 2009 |
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Many of its advocates including us here at Los Cuatro Tulipanes like to point out Casco Viejo's niche in the Panama scene. It's not overrun by sky scrapers, its not hyped as being ultra-modern, it wasn't the center of the nation's real estate boom. However, in differentiating Casco Viejo from the rest of Panama, we often overlook some of the similarities that inherently bind the two together. Perhaps the best example I can think of is the general theme of rapid development and an accompanying forgetting of what really makes an investment/tourism destination tick.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Friday, 29 May 2009 |
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From the moment I was able to envision my adulthood, I wanted desperately to be an oncologist. My friend Jenny was telling me this with a straight face with strips of corned beef falling from her mouth. "I'm sorry," I said, handing her a napkin. "Could you repeat that?"
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 |
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I recently took a trip to Cartagena, one of Colombia's most notable cities and home to a spectacular historic district, similar to what many predict Casco Viejo may look like in a number of years. Besides being a great vacation with stellar weather (and only a 45 minute flight from Panama City), Cartagena offered me something of a model by which to consider Casco Viejo: a lens or gold standard through which we can learn from and improve the neighborhood we are evolving today.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Monday, 06 April 2009 |
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Before Keenan moved to Casco Viejo, he bought an expensive language learning kit called the Rosetta Stone which forces its students to speak Spanish without the use of grammar drills or translation, a learning method analogous to throwing an infant from a helicopter into the Caspian Sea. In theory, the immersion system is a meat and potatoes, no-frills way of getting to the heart of matter, avoiding the extraneous and technical fluff. But what the men and women on the tapes forget to mention is that, until you're semi-proficient at speaking their language, you're lost like tears in rain.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Thursday, 05 February 2009 |
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There's a crack head I associate with in Casco Viejo. He's a small, squat black man who, if he had the proper coordination, might be mistaken for a high school running back. As things stand though, he wanders through the neighborhood aimlessly wearing leg warmers and carrying a broom, asking locals if he can have a quarter or, if that's not possible, if they'd like their sidewalks cleaned.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
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Small businesses are the fuel that drives developing neighborhoods and in one of Panama's most promising districts, Casco Viejo, the difficulty of young businesses and young professionals to comfortably get on their feet is a serious impediment to healthy progress.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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Brainstorming sessions here at Los Cuatro Tulipanes are generally organized and to-the-point. And while we tend to diverge from the traditional style of meetings in that large quantities of domestic beers are generally consumed, we do regularly come up with useful ideas that make Tulipanes a better place to stay.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
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It was a gloomy Saturday afternoon when Elida, our maid,
approached me in a seemingly-concerned state to reveal she had found something alarming
in the Mendez apartment.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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In the heart of slow season, there is a lot of down time during which I like to bond with Elida the maid. Well, it isn't as much bonding as me trying to think of useful things for her to do during the six hours she's scheduled to work everyday.
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Casco Viejo Blog
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Written by Matt Landau
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
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In constantly searching for ways to better promote Los
Cuatro Tulipanes, we were recently approached by FASHION Magazine to be a
feature hotel in an article they were doing on Panama. When one editor arrived
wearing a cowboy hat and bug-eyed glasses, I knew from the start that we’d
never live up to their standards.
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