
First light on the Cholul-Conkal corridor. The residential band where the village character meets the modern residential expansion wakes up the way it has for generations — the small church bell already at it, the bakery on its first batch of pan dulce.
Conkal is the village eleven kilometers northeast of Mérida that anchors the fastest-growing residential corridor in the modern capital — the Cholul-Conkal corridor that has consolidated as the highest concentration of new builds in 2026. The neighborhood pairs proximity to the Mérida-Motul highway with access to the modern shopping centers, the universities, the hospitals, and the easy approach to the Mérida Periférico and the gulf-coast beaches. The Cholul-Conkal corridor sits at the heart of the city's residential expansion, with master-planned communities (Estela Norte, Frida Residencial, Privada Arbórea) building out the residential infrastructure of the next decade. Downtown Mérida is twenty minutes south; the gulf coast at Progreso is twenty minutes north. Conkal reads as the part of the Mérida corridor the residents who came for the village character of the northern band at the next stage of growth chose deliberately.
Inside Frida Smart, the project reads as a residential collection drawn around the corridor's residential brief. Each home spans 818 square feet — one or two bedrooms, full-height openings that pull the Yucateco light deep into the interior, kitchens drawn for someone who actually cooks rather than reheats. The materials are honest — wood, limestone, concrete — and the project reads as a small community of single-family homes inside the larger residential corridor.
One-hundred homes in total, fifteen still available, delivery set for June 2026. Entry pricing at $1,934,000 MXN. Frida Smart sits in Cholul at the rare scale of a single-family home inside the planned residential community — a footprint that the denser condo projects cannot replicate. For the buyer who came to Yucatán for the village character of the northern band at the family-home scale, this is one of the most considered addresses in the neighborhood.
Cholul sits northeast of Mérida city proper, a rapidly growing semi-rural district that has become popular with families building custom homes and residential developers launching gated communities. The area balances Yucatecan village character with modern growth — markets, small restaurants, schools. Lot prices remain more accessible than Norte Mérida, making it attractive for buyers seeking larger properties at lower cost, with the tradeoff of being ~20 minutes from Mérida's core.
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