Puerta de Hierro () ("Iron Gate" in English) is a neighborhood in

Zapopan Zapopan () is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Zapopan is the largest city in the state. It's best known as the home of the Virgin of Zapopan, an image of the Virgin ...

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, as part of the metropolitan area of

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. It was developed through a joint venture by the Leaño family, owners of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara and the Gómez Flores family, owners of GIG, Minsa, Grupo Geo and Dina. The neighborhood is located on Avenida Patria, in the west-center part of Zapopan, in the northwest part of the

Guadalajara Metropolitan Area The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in ) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the third largest in the country after Greater Mexico City Greater Mexico City is the conurbation around Mexico City, ...

. It sits on roughly 500 acres, and includes a residential area, shopping mall, and business district. It is notorious for its affluent population as well as the large amount of high-rise development in the business district which includes the second-tallest building in the metro area, the ''Aura Altitude'', surpassed only by the RIU Plaza Hotel in south Guadalajara. It is also home to the ''Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro'', one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country, built using private funds and a

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14.5 million loan from the

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, the private-sector lending arm of the

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. The best known attraction is the Andares Shopping Mall, a high-end shopping mall located in the southeastern edge of the neighborhood. Andares is one of the most exclusive shopping centers in Mexico: a

530 million complex, featuring some of the best known brands in the world, such as

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, Salvatore Ferragamo,

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, and

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. As part of the complex and the surrounding area, ''the Andares zone'' includes a Hyatt Hotel-condo (construction starting in 2015), luxury residencies designed by Mexican architect

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, as well as

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, Maserati, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volvo and Lincoln dealerships. The zone is also home to the new offices of Oracle and U-Fit, one of the most exclusive gyms in Latin America. Since the opening of Andares in December 2008, and based on those investments as well as other developments, the property value has been increasing to prices never seen before in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area a continuous trend expected to grow even more. The price of land averages over

1,000 per square meter, and the apartments range in prices from US$300,000 to US$2,000,000.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Puerta De Hierro Zapopan Central business districts Financial districts in Mexico Neighborhoods in Jalisco

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