CollectionCultural hospitality estates, built from the materials and traditions of the places where they stand. Taína is the first.
Contiguous coastal land, with the three brands laid across it: KUA on the point, RAKAN to the north, MAINA and the farm inland. Open any building to walk inside it.
The Tribaya Collection is a group of cultural hospitality estates, each one built in the materials and traditions of the place it stands in.
Not a brand applied to a site, but a building drawn from it. Local materials, local artisans, local labour, and a cultural programme developed with the people whose tradition it belongs to.
We are owner-builders. We buy the land, direct the architecture, manage the construction ourselves and then operate what we finish. Nothing here is a fee-development mandate carried out for somebody else.
Taína, on the Samaná Peninsula of the Dominican Republic, is the first. It will not be the last.
On the Samaná beachfront, in local stone, timber and rammed earth.
A 55-key eco-luxury resort and cultural estate, built as three connected brands on one piece of land, raised by hand, in the colour the ground already is.
Taína is built as three connected brands sharing one piece of land, plus the farm that feeds them.
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A gastronomy-led hotel where the kitchen is the reason to come. Rotating chef residencies bring a named kitchen to the estate for a season at a time, cooking out of the farm on the same land.
Thirty-three rooms
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A residential wellness retreat run as a programme rather than a spa menu. Guests arrive for a defined stay with a defined protocol, in suites built for rest rather than display.
Twenty-two suites
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A working cacao farm with a Taíno museum, artisan workshops and an events ground, open to the public rather than reserved for guests. It supplies the kitchens and it employs the valley.
Open to the publicDomed roofs in rammed earth, vaulted arcades, bohíos on the hillside. The estate as designed, in the colour the ground already is.
The Samaná coastline, filmed from the air. This is the ground as it stands today.
Land secured, surveyed and zoned. The unglamorous work is largely done.
The Taíno were the people of this coast. The estate carries their name because the culture is the substance of it, not a decorative layer.
Ancestral knowledge expressed through contemporary craft: that is the whole design brief. It shapes what gets built, what is grown, what is cooked and who does the work.
MAINA holds it. Forty of the eighty-five acres are given to a Taíno museum, craft workshops, agricultural tours, an amphitheatre and a land-sourced tasting restaurant, all open to the public rather than reserved for guests.
It is also a working system. On-site production supplies the kitchens at KUA and RAKAN, and the Community Impact Entity teaches the growing methods to local farmers, so the food economy stays in the valley instead of arriving on a truck.
Our co-founder is of Taíno descent and has lived on this peninsula for six years. The programme originates with her, and that is the part of this that cannot be bought in.
One of the last large, undeveloped stretches of coast on the peninsula.
Samaná is early in its luxury evolution, and the window to shape what it becomes is still open.
A new coastal highway and the expansion of El Catey International Airport have opened access without mass saturation. The arrival of major global brands, Four Seasons among them, signals institutional confidence in the peninsula as the Dominican Republic’s next high-end destination.
It remains one of the last large, undeveloped stretches of coastal land on the peninsula.
In 2025 the province wrote our approach into law, declaring Samaná an Ecotourism Province and aligning the planning framework with low-density, regenerative development rather than against it.
Samaná has its own international airport. El Catey sits forty minutes from the estate.
Taína is the first. The collection grows one estate at a time.
Taína is being developed under a GP/LP structure, with the sponsor's own capital committed alongside its partners.
The project is structured as a sponsor-led partnership: a general partner responsible for land, delivery and operations, and limited partners participating in the estate's development and its long-term cashflows. Documentation is prepared to institutional standard.
The founding team's capital went in first and remains through the hold. Alignment here is structural, not rhetorical: the general partner is paid for performance, not for assembling the deal.
The full picture sits in the data room: land title, surveys, plans, budgets, operating projections and the partnership terms. It is shared privately, under agreement, with qualified investors.
Nothing on this site is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering is made only through definitive offering documents, provided privately to eligible investors.
Seventeen years of owning and operating buildings before ever drawing one. It is a slower education and a considerably cheaper way to deliver.
01Every asset was bought needing work, restored, and then operated. Not a fee-development mandate carried out for somebody else, and not a site to be flipped on once the drawings are approved.
02Founder capital goes in ahead of anyone else and stays in. None of it is withdrawn when partners come in. We would rather be the last paid than the first.
03Local materials, local artisans, local labour. Stone, timber and rammed earth, raised by hand. Taína is being built to Audubon certification standards, with the ecosystem treated as a constraint rather than a feature.
Owner-operator since 2009. A portfolio of ten houses in California’s Antelope Valley acquired distressed and held for cash flow across eleven years, a heritage apartment in Paris held and operated for a decade, and a midcentury house in Encino restored, operated and sold through a full cycle. Leads land acquisition, architectural direction, construction management and financial structuring.
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Of Taíno descent, and resident on the Samaná Peninsula for six years. Leads the brand, the guest proposition and the cultural programme, working with local artisans, growers and elders. The cultural thread running through the estates originates with her.
Project documentation, site plans and programme detail are shared directly and under agreement.
alex@remarkableplacestribu.com