Young H. Lee, president of Gloria Apparel Inc., walks through the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti near Cap Haitien, Haiti Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Gloria Apparel has been operating in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince for seven years and Lee is considering moving his Guatemala operation to Caracol. The park represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. Allison Shelley / ForTthe Miami Herald
Workers are viewed through a piece of drainage pipe as they dig a ditch in the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti near Cap Haitien, Haiti. The park represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. The 600-acre site was donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Men work to assemble chairs for Korean clothing manufacturer Sae-A in their new sewing plant in the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti near Cap-Haitien. The park represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. The 600-acre site was donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Daniel Cho, president of SNH Global, S.A., the Haitian subsidiary of Sae-A, the anchor tenant in the Caracol Industrial Park, lifts a low-hanging wire for Georges Sassine, left, executive director of CTMO-Hope, and Mark D'Sa, right, senior advisor for Industrial Development in Haiti for the U.S. State Dept. All three were touring one of four new buildings that were recently built inside the park in northern Haiti, near Cap-Haitien. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Georges Sassine, executive director of CTMO-Hope, a Haitian government commission to grow manufacturing jobs, inspects boxes of foreign-produced supplies that will be used in the sewing plant of SNH Global, S.A., the Haitian subsidiary of Sae-A, the anchor tenant in the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti near Cap-Haitien. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Frantz Ciceron, 31, left, and Estefan Paul, 22, right, wait to finish a task inside the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien. The pair each make $5 a day for doing odd jobs inside the park, a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the coming years. The park's 600-acre site was donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Mark D'Sa, U.S. State Department senior advisor for Industrial Development in Haiti, shows plans for the 600-acre Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
A worker takes a break at the Caracol Industrial Park in nothern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The park represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. The 600-acre site was donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
A worker walks through a nearly-completed hurricane and earthquake resistant building that will be used as office space for Korean manufacturer, Sae-A, at the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti outside of Cap-Haitien. The park represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. The 600-acre site was donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Workers put the finishing touches on a $45 million, 10-megawatt power plant that will supply energy to the Caracol Industrial Park and surrounding communities in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien. The power plant is part of a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. The 600-acre site where the power plant and industrial park are located were donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Georges Sassine, center, executive director of CTMO-Hope, the Haitian goverment commission formed to grow manufacturing jobs, and Mark D'Sa, far left in sunglasses, U.S. State Department senior advisor for Industrial Development in Haiti, tour a new $45 million, 10-megawatt power plant. The plant will supply energy to the Caracol Industrial Park and surrounding communites in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Mark D'Sa, senior advisor for Industrial Development in Haiti for the U.S. State Dept., poses at the entrance of a nearly-completed factory in the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien. A former executive with Gap, D'Sa's job has been to help recruit companies to the park, which represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
A worker walks through land owned by the Haitian government that will be turned into new housing development financed by U.S. taxpayers. Located not far from the main commercial corridor, the housing development has been a target of criticism from lawmakers and others who want it relocated. The development is located not far from the new Caracol Industrial Park, a $300 million investment in nothern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien, by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank. The goal is to create up to 65,000 jobs in the area in the coming years. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Jilson St. Tilien, center, watches as friends play dominos in the town of Caracol, just outside of the Caracol Industrial Park near Cap Haitien, Haiti, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The park, developed under a partnership with the U.S. government, IDB, the Haitian government and others, will be ready for occupancy in the next few weeks and will employ up to 65,000 workers. Allison Shelley / For the Miami Herald
Fanilia Prospere, 30, mother of three, stands with chattering residents along the road where she sells used clothing in Caracol, Haiti, just outside of the Caracol Industrial Park. Prospere said the park in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien, is giving the rural community another image and she welcomes the change. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Billboards along the roads leading to Caracol, a rural village in northern Haiti, outside of Cap-Haitien, tout the new industrial park that will soon open, and the jobs it will provide. The park represents a $300 million investment by the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank to create up to 65,000 jobs in the region in the coming years. The 600-acre site was donated by the Haitian government. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Men peer at the closed gates of the King Henri Cristophe campus of the State University of Haiti in Limonade near Cap-Haitien, Haiti. The school was donated by the Dominican Republic on the second anniversary of the January 2010 earthquake but to this date remains unused. It is among several developments taking place in northern Haiti where there Caracol Industrial Park, offering thousands of garment assembly jobs, will soon open. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald
Men peer at the closed gates of the King Henri Cristophe campus of the State University of Haiti in Limonade near Cap-Haitien, Haiti. The school was donated by the Dominican Republic on the second anniversary of the January 2010 earthquake but to this date remains unused. It is among several developments taking place in northern Haiti where there Caracol Industrial Park, offering thousands of garment assembly jobs, will soon open. Allison Shelley / For The Miami Herald