
The first swimmers take the canal de nado before the beach bar opens, and by the time the kids club fills, the gulf has already turned the pale green that gives this coast its name. The sand here belongs to the residents — the Costa Esmeralda does not do crowds.
San Benito is the part of the Yucatecan coast that Mérida families with means have been quietly choosing for a generation. At kilometer 25 of the Progreso–Telchac highway, the pocket sits between the busy Malecón of Progreso — twenty minutes west, with its four-mile pier and full restaurant strip — and the fishing calm of Telchac Puerto to the east. The Uaymitún flamingo reserve is eight minutes up the road; Mérida's hospitals, airport, and Gran Plaza all inside forty-five minutes. The corridor reads as primary-residence coast, not weekend inventory.
Inside Vidamar, the tower was drawn around the water. Each residence opens to a terraced view over the pool grid and the beach club, with full-height glazing that pulls the gulf light deep into the living spaces and kitchens scaled for someone who actually cooks rather than reheats. The amenity floor runs from the beachfront inward — infinity pool, swimming channel, beach bar, padel, gym with the sea in the window — and the building shares its beach club with the fourteen villas of the same master plan, keeping the density low enough that the sand never crowds.
Forty-one residences in the tower, delivery set for late 2026. Entry pricing begins at $4,684,000 MXN for the one-bedroom garden units. Vidamar sits on San Benito at the scale the corridor still allows — a single tower and a handful of villas on a genuine beachfront lot. For the buyer who came to the Yucatecan coast for the family rhythm of the Costa Esmeralda rather than the rental-yield scene, this is one of the most complete addresses on the corridor.
San Benito is a small residential pocket on the Progreso-Telchac corridor at kilometer 25, part of the stretch of the Yucatán coast branded as the Costa Esmeralda for the pale-green cast of the shallow gulf water. The zone reads primary-residence rather than commercial — larger lots, low building density, and beachfront still measured in walking distance rather than kilometers.
We find Vidamar Departamentos interesting for a specific type of buyer: someone who wants the Vidamar amenity floor and beach club access but does not need the 4-bedroom villa format the companion project delivers. The apartment tower is the entry point into the master plan — $4.68M MXN gets you into a 1-bedroom on the Costa Esmeralda with the full shared amenity roster (infinity pool, beach club, padel, swimming channel, concierge). That price point is genuinely rare on the corridor for anything with this amenity density. Same developer as the Villas (Grupo GPI, Mérida-based, direct client-service structure), same construction window (delivery late 2026), same payment plan (30/20/50). The honest consideration: the apartment format lives on a shared amenity floor rather than a private site — different from the villa experience. If you want more privacy, the Villas are the format. If you want the amenity access at apartment scale, Departamentos is the entry point. Both are the same brand and master-plan — pick the format that fits your usage.
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