Sea Touch Saipan LLC, the first of its kind shark and stingray marine park project in the Commonwealth, is set to finally open.<\/p>\n
The company, in its website said it is all set to open this February, although the company did not give a specific date. Local TV news program KSPN 2 reported, though, that Sea Touch will be open to the public this Saturday.<\/p>\n
In November of last year, the administration of Gov. Eloy S. Inos gave the go-signal for Sea Touch Saipan LLC to build a $1.125-million shark and stingray marine park project at the beachfront of Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan.<\/p>\n
Baldyga Group, which operates SandCastle at the Hyatt Regency Saipan, owns Sea Touch and has reportedly spent $275,000 for the project.<\/p>\n
The Sea Touch agreement is a landmark deal since it is the first time the CNMI leased its submerged lands after President Barrack Obama reconveyed its 3-mile submerged lands back to the islands in 2013<\/p>\n
Rep. Joseph Lee Pan Guerrero (R-Saipan) said in an interview that he wants to see more projects like Sea Touch to be established in the Commonwealth in the hopes of drawing in more tourists.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker said he is set to meet with officials of the Marianas Visitors Authority to know more of the tourism body\u2019s plans for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to sit down with them [MVA officials] and see what they plan to do,\u201d Guerrero said, noting that he also wants to give recommendations to the tourism board.<\/p>\n
The meeting with the MVA is set for Feb. 20 on Capital Hill. (Joel D. Pinaroc)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sea Touch Saipan LLC, the first of its kind shark and stingray marine park project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1993,1994,1995,1271],"class_list":["post-191717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-baldyga-group","tag-kspn","tag-president-barrack-obama","tag-sea-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}