The Costa Rican brewery just paid a cool $250,000
(yes $ not colones) for the bar concession at the annual Zapote fair. From this mornings
Inside Costa Rica
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Zapote Concessions Auctioned Off
The Comisión de Festejos Populares de San José took in yesterday ¢211.1 million colones (us$409.000 dollars) in concession fees for 55 booths for the annual "Zapote Fair" that begins on December 25 and runs to January 6, 2008.
The Zapote Fair was cancelled last year due to health and safety concerns, especially over the "redondel" or makeshift bull ring, that is a traditional part of the fair.
However, last week permission was granted to erect a permanent redondel with a capacity for 4.200 people and the Zapote Fair is a go again.
The biggest payer at the concession auction was Marco Tulio Alfaro Araya, a high level executive with the CervecerÃa Costa Rica, who under the mane Inmovigi paid ¢111 million colones for the bar concessions.
Others paid up to ¢6.2 million colones for the right to have a booth at the two week fair that will 11 include food, drinks, games and the megabars by Inmovigi.
The Zapote Fair in San José is the largest and most attended event during the Fair season that runs to March. Other famous and well attended fairs include the Palmares and the Puntarenas fairs.
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