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InternationalReñaca, Viña del Mar, ChileEnvironmental approval issued; municipal building permission not verified

Reñaca’s Australis Park clears environmental assessment

Chile’s environmental authority has approved the 136-apartment project, with the public record describing a 20-storey building at La Foresta.

GoSiteHunt EditorialPublished 2 min readSources checked

Reñaca beach and its existing beachfront buildings, photographed in October 2021; this is historical area context, not Australis Park.
Historical area photographReñaca beach on 10 October 2021. Historical area context; this photograph does not show the Australis Park site or the proposed building. Resized and compressed for web; no content changes.Photo: Carlos Figueroa Rojas / Wikimedia Commons · Image source ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Key takeaways

  • Apartments: 136
  • Above-ground storeys: 20
  • Environmental resolution: RCA 202605001110

Environmental assessment outcome

Australis Park has cleared environmental assessment in Reñaca, the coastal district of Viña del Mar. Chile’s official project register records a favourable environmental resolution issued on 1 September 2026.

The scheme proposed by Inmobiliaria Don Gonzalo includes apartments and commercial space on a site beside Avenida Edmundo Eluchans and Avenida La Foresta. Its assessment description sets out four basement levels, gardens and shared areas, with a declared investment of US$37 million.

The regional evaluation commission voted on the project on 18 August. The September resolution is the subsequent formal environmental decision. GoSiteHunt has not verified the separate municipal building-permit position or a construction start.

For readers following the project, the next useful documents are the building permission and its drawing schedule. Those would allow a comparison between the environmental assessment’s description and the design permitted for construction. The environmental decision is a meaningful milestone, but an apartment count and a favourable assessment alone do not establish when homes will reach the market. That distinction matters when comparing the scheme with other development opportunities along the coast.

Read the sources

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  1. Chile SEIA — project description and environmental decision ↗seia.sea.gob.cl
  2. SEA — August evaluation commission outcomes ↗sea.gob.cl

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