Construction-era Paraiso was at the edge of excavation works and was occasionally subject to landslides. Nevertheless, the town had its own commissary, post office, hospital, church, lodge hall, a public market and even a bandstand. In 1905, a Coca-Cola bottling plant was established in the town to take advantage of the pure water in the nearby Paraiso natural spring. This spring also supplied drinking water to Corozal and many construction-era towns. The bottling plant was eventually sold to the Panama Coca-Cola Company and moved out of Paraiso at the end of the construction era.