
Dusk at the village plaza. Cholul is the part of Mérida where the day ends at the small plaza in front of the church — the residents at the corner café, the kids on bicycles still circulating, the cicadas in the chuluul trees.
Cholul is one of the twelve commissariats of the Mérida municipality — the second comisaría in size after Caucel, a village that has kept its town designation while the city's growth absorbed the surrounding blocks. The name comes from a tree (Apoplanesia paniculata) called 'Water Wood' — chosen for the way the wood resists humidity. The neighborhood pairs proximity to downtown Mérida (fifteen minutes by car) with a five-minute drive to the Altabrisa shopping mall and the wider Cholul-Conkal corridor of new residential development. The corridor sits among the highest concentrations of new builds in Mérida for 2026, alongside Temozón Norte, Conkal, Dzityá, and Komchén. Cholul reads as the part of Mérida the residents who came for the village character of the northern band, with the modern residential infrastructure attached, chose deliberately.
Inside Livia, the project reads as a residential condominium scaled for the corridor — boutique density drawn around the Yucateco light. Each residence spans 560 square feet with a full-height opening to a balcony, a kitchen drawn for someone who actually cooks rather than reheats, and a bathroom organized around the natural light. The materials are honest — wood, limestone, glass — and the building's density was kept residential rather than commercial. The architecture supports the residential rhythm Cholul is built for.
Delivery in 2026. Entry pricing at $1,745,000 MXN. Livia sits in Cholul at the scale of a boutique residential condominium on the corridor — a project for the buyer who came to Yucatán for the village character of the northern band at the studio scale. For the buyer ready to settle inside Cholul, this is one of the most considered new 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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