Xkaa Urban Condos

After the storm, the boulevard washed and amber. Zona Esmeralda is the residential corridor where the late afternoon is the second wake-up of the day — the residents at the corner café, the boutique shops reopening, the joggers back on the boulevard.

Zona Esmeralda is the residential expansion band west of Centro Playa del Carmen — the corridor where the city's growth absorbed the residential blocks beyond 50 Avenida and built a calmer, mid-density neighborhood distinct from the tourist pulse of the avenue. The local infrastructure is now real: bakeries, specialty coffee shops, yoga studios, organic markets, small grocery stores, restaurants where the cook knows the residents by name. Quinta Avenida and the Cozumel ferry terminal are five to seven minutes by car or fifteen minutes on foot; the beach corridor is ten minutes east; the highway entrance to the Riviera Maya runs along the western edge of the neighborhood. Zona Esmeralda reads as the part of Playa del Carmen the residents who chose the city for its residential side rather than its tourist side settled into.

Inside Xkaa Urban Condos, the project reads as a residential condominium scaled for the corridor — boutique density drawn around the city light. Each residence spans 444 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, stone, glass — and the building's density was kept residential rather than commercial. The architecture supports the walking-distance lifestyle the corridor is built for.

Twenty-four residences in total, nine still available, immediate delivery. Entry pricing begins at $2,965,260 MXN. Xkaa Urban Condos sits in Zona Esmeralda at the rare scale of a twenty-four-residence boutique condominium on the corridor — an intimate footprint that the larger downtown projects cannot replicate. For the buyer who came to Playa del Carmen for the residential side of the city at the one-bedroom scale, this is one of the most considered addresses in the neighborhood.