Voor de Europese markt heeft Forest Returns gisteren 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 Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch (LGM) in`Switi Sranan`, ofwel het heerlijke Suriname.

Waarmee de hiernaast te `downloaden` pdf-documenten, separate foto-albums en onderstaande Engelstalige teksten zijn verklaard: 

Sustainable Country Estate in Surinam (Commewijne River)

Executive Summary
The multifunctional country estate Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch (LGM) in the Caribbean & South American promising country Surinam focusses on:

• Hospitality & Care: Eco-tourism, real estate (hotel, residential), wellness,
• Animal Husbandry: cows, horses, capybaras, caimans, chickens, ducks,
• Forestry: endemic and exotic tree & bamboo species.  

The existing owners of LGM offer through Estatement:

• all existing properties for the special price of € 5.000.000,
• the opportunity to obtain and revitalise additional adjacent lands,
• the opportunity to realise the vital parts of the existing Seven Years Master Plan.

   
Description Existing Country Estate LGM
‘Founding Eagle’ Cor Denneman Heilscher (CDH) bought through his company Forest Returns bv three former and adjacent plantation areas ‘Mariënbosch I’, ‘Mariënbosch II’ and ‘Guadeloupe’ from three different Surinam families in 2008, in total 823 hectares (=2.034 acres). With help of other Surinam and Dutch investors, a separate Surinam entity was launched with CDH as Chief Executive Officer.

The present country estate, situated between the Commewijne River -rich in dolphins and fish- and the by many see turtles populated Atlantic Ocean, can be reached from the capital (Paramaribo) by water taxi within 22 minutes. Based upon the growth of this planned ‘maritime mobility’ a substantial value of the lands can be expected in near future.

The former planter’s buildings, since 1774, are patrimonial parts of the country estate. Because of the rich flora and fauna a part of the areas will be protected as nature reserve. All real assets are property of LGM.
At present 11 share holders are involved; 3 in Surinam (including the former owners, the Surinam families Abdoelrahman & Persad) and 8 in the Netherlands.
 
Activities within revised Seven Years Masterplan

• obtaining adjacent assets (property) + domain land (through lease)
• launching NV Water Taxi Suriname including hybrid boats
• constructing T-shaped pier at Commewijne River
• improvement of infra structure at the east bank of sluice stream
• building ensemble of boat house/reception area/restaurant on the pier
• restoration of the former planter’s house (1774) > hotel accommodation
• building care takers’ village in old 18th century Dutch plantation style
• building river lodges in old 18th century Dutch plantation style
• building collective hospitality area (swimming pool, tennis courts etc.)
• building river villas at neighbouring plantation ‘Goede Vriendschap’
• building individual jetties & swimming pools for individual river villas
• construction of sidewalks, tracks for bikes, horses and electric cars
• creating natural looking lakes, suitable for future ‘laguna lodges’
• landscaping respecting the former and existing geophysics

Further pictures are shown in separate photo album.