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Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest part of The Bahamas.In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area.
Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
The company is a part of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), which also operates Beaches Resorts, Fowl Cay Resort, and several private villas. Founded by Jamaican-born entrepreneur Gordon "Butch" Stewart in 1981, SRI is based in Montego Bay , Jamaica and is responsible for development, service standards, training, and day-to-day operations of ...
This predates resorts in Freeport and Lucaya. The large 356-room resort had three 9-hole golf courses, 16 tennis courts, a half-million gallon salt water swimming pool (the Bahamas' largest), a huge auditorium for live shows, a shopping arcade, several restaurants, a 100-slip marina and an airport.
The partially-constructed resort operated for a single season in 1950 before Butlin's ran out of money. A small part of the resort was brought back into operation in 1955 before being more fundamentally redeveloped in 1960. West End Airport was the main airport for Grand Bahama until Freeport's overshadowed it.
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