RonDon--The last I knew El Zafiro doesn't OWN the property where the hotel is. It's kind of an odd thing on SXM, that in some cases, the LAND is owned by someone and someone else builds buildings on it. The real estate used to be owned by a lady named Jessica, from way back, probably still is. Jessica ran the hotel as White Sands Hotel or something similar. Then the fellow from St. Barts came in and put a boatload of money into the hotel and then left/sold out/whatever, and Jessica took back the hotel. Then I think there was another name for the hotel, before the current owners of the hotel took over. As far as the owner of the brown (orange??) buildings, I'm not sure whether those were owned by Jessica or someone else. My suspicion, since the folks from EL Z said they 'owned' the brown/orange buildings, is that they were (and probably are) owned by Jessica also. A doctor owns the big white ugly building between Beachside and El Z.