Artem by DK

The cook arrives first at the corner restaurant. Región 8 is the established residential band where the small restaurants and the cantinas have built around the residents who walk to lunch — and the day starts before the residents themselves are awake.

Región 8 is the residential corridor between downtown Tulum and the highway extension — the band where the city's first wave of residential expansion took root and where the local infrastructure is now real. The neighborhood sits west of downtown, north of Región 15, and forms the corridor where established bakeries, specialty coffee, yoga studios, organic markets, and small grocery stores have built the kind of daily rhythm residents recognize. Downtown Tulum and Avenida Tulum's commercial spine are five minutes by car or fifteen minutes on foot; the beach corridor and the archaeological zone are ten to twelve minutes east; the inland cenotes — Gran Cenote, Cenote Calavera, Cenote Carwash — are five minutes by bike. Of Tulum's residential expansion bands, Región 8 is the one that the residents who came early stayed in.

Inside Artem, the architecture takes the corridor's residential brief seriously. Each residence spans 966 square feet — one or two bedrooms, balcony space drawn for actual outdoor living, full-height openings that pull the canopy into the interior, kitchens drawn for someone who actually cooks rather than reheats. The materials are honest — wood, stone, glass that respects the climate — and the building's density was kept low enough to read as a residence rather than a tower. The architecture stays out of the way of the trees that the lot was drawn around.

Sixty-seven residences in total, thirty-one still available, delivery set for December 2026. Entry pricing begins at $356,822 USD. Artem sits in Región 8 at the scale of a real residential condominium on the corridor — a project sized for the kind of community that supports a real amenity floor. For the buyer who came to Tulum for the residential corridor at the one-bedroom scale, this is one of the most considered addresses in the neighborhood.