Let's Build Gonave, Haiti!

If La Gonave became a Special Administrative Region, one major way to bring in need revenue is to build outside of Haiti.  Building apartment buildings could bring in monthly revenue that could then be used to develop the region.  For example, the average house purchase in Seattle, is $500,000 US.  That is usually a 3 bdrm 1 bath house that is under 1,200 sq ft.  The average rent in Seattle for a 1 bdrm, 1 bath apartment of 6-700 sq ft is about $1,700 US per month! So by simply building a small container apartment building in say, Tacoma, which is just outside of Seattle, you can still have high rent, but on cheaper land.  Land in Tacoma is a little cheaper than Seattle, and you can find land that is literally a few blocks from Downtown Tacoma.  Tacoma even is expanding their light rail line, as well as their rail terminal, port, and University of Washington Tacoma campus.  All of which are downtown.  Tacoma is booming because Seattle is boomin...

Why rail? Building a light rail before roadways seems a bit backwards in most parts of the world.  The problem with roads are the large amount of vehicle pollution, road take up a large amount of space, and roads are expensive to maintain. Keep in mind, Gonave is a very tiny island.  Roads and highways should be built, but shouldn't be the initial first piece of land transportation.  Given that everything has to be imported, you would have to import fuel for all of the vehicles, and even import the vehicles themselves.  It all adds up to major expenses. If a light rail line was built, the initial costs would be pretty expensive, however the lines and rolling stock vehicles would last for a very long time.  Also wind turbines  could power the entire initial system.  Again the initial costs would be expensive.  A wind turbine cost $3-4 million for a 2 MW system.  A 2 MW system could power some 30,000 US homes.  A light rail train co...

  Miami!  While Gonave has dirt runway that can only accommodate very small planes, the new Gonave will have a modern runway.  Based on many international destinations, a 2 mile runway is typical in order for an airport to handle very large passenger and cargo planes. So what American City should be on Gonave's short list of Gateway cities?  Without question this should be Miami for many reasons.  Like New York City, Miami has many Haitian nationals and many people of Haitian decent.  So air traffic to Gonave could easily be established due to this, especially if better infrastructure to Haiti were to happen. The close proximity to Haiti/Gonave makes Miami also very attractive as well.  Smaller aircraft can be flown in initially until service levels prove for larger craft.  Also an entrepreneur on Gonave or Haiti could start a small feeder airline that connects Miami to Gonave. Miami is an international city.  With flights...