With a major transformation taking place, it is one of the fastest and most important real estate development areas in the country.

Taking advantage of their now prime location, big pieces of land originally occupied mainly by industries are being used to build large housing, office, commercial and cultural developments with shops, restaurants, cinemas, museums, a 1,500-seat theater, a luxury hotel, etc.

At that time the population of Nuevo Polanco was 76,000, twice as high as originally foreseen, with 23,469 housing units.

[1] Nuevo Polanco had gained attention in the international press as an example of how development can go wrong if there is no proper planning for infrastructure.

These include: The new headquarters of the United States Embassy in Mexico will be located in New Polanco, a large complex to be built on land previously used for a Colgate-Palmolive plant.