The US State De­part­ment of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced the ac­qui­si­tion of 137 Long Cir­cu­lar Road, Mar­aval. US Am­bas­sador Can­dace Bond of­fi­cial­ly signed off on the deal on April 5. She said over $400 mil­lion USD will be spent on the project.

“The U.S. Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to the con­struc­tion of a new em­bassy is a pow­er­ful in­di­ca­tor of the long­stand­ing, ro­bust re­la­tion­ship be­tween the peo­ple and gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed States and the peo­ple and gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” Am­bas­sador Bond said.

“The U.S. gov­ern­ment will in­vest more than US$400 mil­lion to plan, de­sign, and build the new U.S. Em­bassy. In ad­di­tion to pro­vid­ing scores of jobs dur­ing the new em­bassy’s con­struc­tion, the project will show­case state-of-the-art and eco-friend­ly de­signs and ma­te­ri­als. It will al­so al­low the U.S. Em­bassy to bet­ter serve our con­stituents, im­prove the ex­pe­ri­ence for visa ap­pli­cants, and pro­vide new and im­proved fa­cil­i­ties and ser­vices for those con­duct­ing busi­ness with the U.S. Gov­ern­ment.”

Ru­mours swirled for years about the po­ten­tial pur­chase of the site. It was re­port­ed just about one year ago in April 2022 the Em­bassy had pur­chased the site. Coun­try Club was a ma­jor event space. The Na­tion­al Trust had al­so con­sid­ered the site to be con­sid­ered for no­ta­tion and preser­va­tion.