Construction
Construction
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We have our own in-house Architectural Dept . Using our system , clients benefit from a considerable time saving
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Creative Designs have earned a reputation for delivering a product high in quality and delivering on time .
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We also pride ourselves on innovation . After Hurricane Ivan in 2004 , we were the first to introduce a foam system for adhering tiles to roofs using a system propelled by nitrogen . It ’ s Miami-Dade County tested to be within hurricane specifications .
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The company will always look for sources of new materials and technologies from manufacturers around the world . We are always looking for economic benefits that we can pass on to our clients .
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After the hurricane which hit Grenada in September 2004 . Creative Designs biggest challenge was to get the St George ’ s University up and running for January 2005 , otherwise the University , which was closed for this period of time , would have experienced a serious negative impact to their business . Creative Designs completed the job in record time , and the University were able to reopen as planned and on time .
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CONCESSIONS We work with any client who enjoys concessions such as Sandals , Spice Beach Resort , Port Louis Marina , Mt . Cinnamon Hotel , and the recently commenced Silver Sands project on Grand Anse Beach . We will coordinate with customs , and the VAT Dept . etc . to make sure the client receives the concessions they are entitled to .
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SILVER SANDS We were involved in the initial stage of civil work including drainage and retaining walls which will house the buildings . We will certainly be up for the construction phase of the final hotel once that comes up for tender . Our experience of building to a 5 star level will be to our advantage to a project such as this .
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We have also bid for the new parliament building which is under review for technical and financial aspects of our proposal .
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Yachting
Yachting
Living the Dream
with Dream Yacht Charter
He got the call to create the base in Grenada arriving on Aug
31 2013. He shares, “I opened the doors on Oct 1st 2013,” I
collected the first boat, a Catana 47, and then a Sun Odyessy 36.
By Christmas they had 3 boats, and 5 in January.
His start in the Caribbean came from another phone call when
he was running a Sunseeker Charter boat and doing refit work
on the 75’ motor yacht to set her up for charter in the South of
France - he tells us “I got the call to come to St Lucia in Rodney
Bay to work with a charter company there. After that I bought
an Albin 43 Trawler Yacht in Antigua and took off up north and
ended up doing charters in the BVI’ and delivieries. It was the
base manager at the marina in the BVI’s that introduced him to
Dream Yacht Charter and they said they wanted him to open a
base in Grenada.
Previous to landing his ‘dream job’ Johnson was a high-end
interior designer in London. In the 90’s he switched gears and got
into lucrative corporate entertainment. His company held high
profile events for big companies such as BP, Mobil OIl, Smirnoff,
Guinness; culminating in their biggest triumph, his company did
the launch party of the London Eye.
It was after this he decided to get into a yachting career and he
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The contribution to Grenada is
massive annually - we have
20 boats and if we calculate at 50%
occupancy for 6 months then
basically thats 240 charter weeks
at 6 people per boat, so that’s about
1440 people coming to Grenada
as a direct result of our company
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ream Yacht Charter has arrived in Grenada in a big way,
opening their Grenada base in 2013 at Camper & Nicholson’s
Port Louis Marina, they started that season with just 3 boats.
BusinessGrenada Magazine had a chat with Base Manager, Richard
Johnson, to find out more about the company, past present and
future. “I’ve gone from 3 boats to 23 so that’s an increase of
700% in 2 years.” The base has been such a success that they are
opening a sister operation base in Blue Lagoon, St Vincent.
now carries a 200 ton commercially endorsed Captain’s License.
DREAMY BEGINNINGS
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