We're building something that doesn't yet exist on this coast.
A 70-acre, four-phase master plan for a Caribbean community — sustainable by design, inclusive by structure, and smart by infrastructure.
A community, not a development
Most Caribbean real estate falls into one of two boxes: gated resort-style enclaves that feel disconnected from the country they sit in, or one-off villas with no shared infrastructure, no shared standards, and no shared community.
Sienna is built to be a third thing. A master-planned community of 93 villas across four phases, on a 70-acre hillside in El Jamito — each phase designed to strengthen the whole, not replicate it. By the time the master plan is complete, Sienna will be a place with its own rhythm, its own institutions, and its own way of doing things.
The goal is concrete: 93 villas, four phases, a single environmental license that holds it all together. By year five, around 200 residents live across Sienna full- or part-time, with the four institutional areas operational and the rental program funding the upkeep of what every owner shares.
The Sienna masterplan. Zone 1 (current) in red, Zone 3 in yellow + orange, Zone 2 in green, Zone 4 in blue.
Three principles
Sustainable, inclusive, smart. The three words we use to decide what Sienna does and what it doesn't.
Sustainable
Every villa is positioned to follow the land instead of flattening it. Solar-ready, naturally ventilated, water-smart — built so the place stays as beautiful in 30 years as it is the day you arrive.
Phase 4 dedicates its institutional area to an Energy Cooking School, an Agroecological Production School, and the preservation of the property's archaeological gardens — sustainability isn't a finish, it's part of the master plan.
Inclusive
Fractional ownership alongside full ownership. Residents from a dozen countries. A community shaped by shared values, not a velvet rope. Local talent trained by La Fábrica de Sueños so the people who serve the community come from the community.
Phase 3 brings the Community Core: a training center, library, ecolodge, restaurant, and commercial spaces designed to be used by residents and the wider Las Terrenas community side by side.
Smart
Fiber to every lot. A real co-working hub. Roads, utilities, and services built once — properly — before villas break ground, instead of patched together over time.
Phase 1 starts with infrastructure: underground power, fiber, water, security, and graded roads completed before the first villa keys are handed over. The place feels finished from day one, not like a construction site.
Four phases, one community
Sienna is built in phases on purpose. Each phase has its own role: residential capacity first, then the community core, then the learning quarter that closes out the master plan.
Zone 1
The Foundation
28 oceanview villas, full estate infrastructure, and the first on-site institutional area — information offices, maintenance, generator, storage, and the activity space. The proof of concept and the heart of the community.
- 30 villas on ~5.9 hectares (Lots 1–34)
- All five villa types represented (A5, B4, C3, D2, E1)
- Roads, fiber, water, power, security — built before the villas
- On-site reception, maintenance, and activity space
Zone 3 — The Estate Quarter
The Estate Villas
Sienna's southern half. 22 villas split between two adjoining sub-zones — a quieter, residential extension of Zone 1 dominated by larger, more private estate villas.
- 22 villas on ~6.8 hectares (Lots 66–88)
- Six 5-bedroom Villa A5 estates — the largest format Sienna offers
- Lower density, larger lots, longer view corridors
- Connected to Zone 1 by the southern road loop
Zone 2 — The Community Core
Where Sienna Becomes a Community
The phase that turns Sienna from a residential development into a place to live. Zone 2 sits at the heart of the estate and brings the institutional amenities that make daily life possible — wellness, work, food, learning, and play, plus the lake.
- 26 villas on ~7.9 hectares (Lots 35–65)
- The Lake — Sienna's central water feature
- Health Club, Spa & Yoga Studio
- Training Center, Library & Community Center
- Co-working Hub & on-site real estate office
- Restaurant, events space, and commercial spaces
- Sienna Village ecolodge
- Pickleball and tennis courts
Zone 4 — The Learning Quarter
Education, Agriculture, Legacy
The final piece of the master plan. Zone 4 anchors Sienna's social and educational mission — an energy-focused cooking school, an agroecological production school, and a library / community center, alongside the largest private estate villas on the property and the preserved archaeological gardens.
- 15 villas on ~5.3 hectares (Lots 89–104)
- Ten 5-bedroom Villa A5 estates on the largest lots
- Energy Cooking School — culinary training tied to local agriculture
- Agroecological Production School
- Library and Community Center
- Preserved archaeological gardens on the western flank
What we refuse to do
The shape of a vision is defined as much by what you say no to as by what you build. These are the lines we won't cross.
We refuse to wall ourselves off.
No three-meter perimeter walls. No isolated villas behind private gates inside the project. The community is connected by shared trails, shared farms, shared spaces — and the villas face them rather than turn their backs. A gated development can still be open inside its own boundary.
We refuse to flatten the land to fit the architecture.
Every villa is positioned to follow the hillside's natural topography. On slopes greater than 15%, villas are built on columns rather than cut into the ground. Bulldozing a site flat is faster and cheaper. We don't do it.
We refuse to treat the local community as a backdrop.
Sienna is built in Las Terrenas with Dominican craftsmen, suppliers, materials, and staff. Sienna Village's programs open the project's amenities to the surrounding community — not as charity, but as recognition that we are guests here.
We refuse to import a model that doesn't belong here.
This is not a Tulum copy, not a Bali copy, not a Mediterranean villa cluster transplanted to the Caribbean. The architecture draws from Dominican vernacular, the landscape from Caribbean ecology, the materials from local sources. We build something that could only exist here.
A community that grows the community
The community institutions are built into the master plan, not bolted on. Phase 3 brings the Community Core — training center, library, restaurant, ecolodge — and Phase 4 anchors the Learning Quarter with the Energy Cooking School and the Agroecological Production School. Together they form the institutional bridge with La Fábrica de Sueños, the partner foundation that runs the programs and trains the people who go on to work inside Sienna.
A community that isolates itself from the place it sits in is a resort. A community that strengthens the place it sits in is a neighborhood.
When the master plan is complete
By year six, the road into Sienna is a quiet climb under preserved trees. Through the gate, the trail network connects 93 villas to the lake, the village square, the farms, and the four institutional areas — none more than a fifteen-minute walk from any home. Around 200 residents live across Sienna full- or part-time, alongside the families running the foundation's programs out of Sienna Village.
Sienna is known locally as the eco-tourism reference for Samaná — the project other developers cite when they explain what a license-led, land-led build can look like. The foundation's training programs are operating from the village; the farms supply the Casa Club kitchen and the surrounding restaurants in Las Terrenas; the rental program is in its second seven-year cycle.
The land itself looks more like itself than it did the day construction started. That is the deliberate outcome of building around the land instead of on top of it.
Who this is for
Sienna isn't for everyone, and that's the point. If any of the below sound like you, we're probably aligned.
If you believe a home should connect you to a place, not insulate you from it
Sienna is built inside Las Terrenas, with the town's life and culture as part of the experience — not behind glass. The architecture borrows from Dominican vernacular. The farms, trails, and gathering spaces are designed to make you a participant in the place, not a guest looking out from a resort window.
If you want your investment to mean something beyond the spreadsheet
Every commitment on this page is backed by a license condition or a binding agreement: 67% permanent green space, native species programs, a foundation funded by the project, local sourcing, in-house management. The returns are real, but they sit on top of a project that the place is actually better for.
If you're tired of communities that promise everything and deliver a brochure
Sienna leads with documents you can verify: the environmental license, the CONFOTUR resolution, the master plan, the architectural guidelines. The standard we hold ourselves to is that anything we claim, you can check.
See it for yourself
The vision is the long version. The lifestyle is what it feels like day to day. The Discovery Tour is how you walk the land and decide if Sienna is right for you.