Panama City Corners the World’s Crane Market
Aug 1st, 2008 by Don Ray
I don’t get to Panama City all that often. When I go, I go to visit friends and family and to buy things I can’t find in David. If I am lucky then friends and family will visit me in David and I can avoid the trip.
Panama City is a city that undergoing a great deal of change. You literally can not look across the skyline and not see and area that doesn’t have construction going on.
One day, I took a 360 degree walk around the rooftop of the building I was visiting and took the following photos.
In this photo you can see three cranes.
Here is another.
And another.
Here is another. The three buildings on the left of the crane, don’t appear to have been completed too long ago.
Here is another.
This is the last and I will tell you that I took photos of a small fraction of all the cranes that are currently in Panama City.
Think Panama City is loaded with cranes? Check out Dubai!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1561284101248340143&hl=en
Regards, Richard
Hi Richard. Yes I know that there is a lot of construction going on in Dubai as well. That is what cornering the oil market can do for you. That is another place I would not want to live.
A Panamanian friend once commented that the National Bird of Panama was the Construction Crane.
Well, from the top of one, you could certainly have a bird’s eye view.
From the top of the Hotel California, on their patio, you could see nine cranes. Near the hotel, you could see beautiful older homes, with stucco siding, tile roofs, intricate wrought-iron. The homes are in many cases boarded up, awaiting destruction. Last month, in a two day stay at Hotel Ejecutivo, we watched as one small bobcat demolished one of these homes, on the lot right next door to the hotel.This trip, nothing remained but a smooth vacant lot in its stead. Take pictures quick, the old will be gone soon.
Hi Mary. You are right. Out with the old and in with the new. Not always a good change either.