Symbio-City - Centurion

[skimread]

According to OP's article construction was supposed to start in 2012 and finish in 2018. So that's 2 years behind schedule.

 

[diabolus]

According to OP's article construction was supposed to start in 2012 and finish in 2018. So that's 2 years behind schedule.

I've already seen that 2018 date now moved to 2022 in some articles mentioning this project earlier this year.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Well here's some recent new on this, so it doesn't sound quite dead to me:

http://www.iolproperty.co.za/roller/news/entry/comments_sought_on_centurion_lake

Trust me, this is just people wasting time.

No private investor will sink the required money into this project, its not worth their while, and the municipality does not have the funds to even think about doing a project like this.

 

[diabolus]

Trust me, this is just people wasting time.

No private investor will sink the required money into this project, its not worth their while, and the municipality does not have the funds to even think about doing a project like this.

Well you never know, our "competition" for highest building in Africa is in Ethiopia of all places, and guess who's building their tower? China .

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-07-12-skyscraper-shootout-the-race-to-the-top-of-africa/

Just this week, Ethiopia announced its entry in the race to the top. “Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, may boast Africa’s tallest building by 2017,” announced the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency, somewhat breathlessly. Although no plans or sketches have been released yet, plans for the 99-storey building – to be built by a Chinese corporation – have apparently already been approved, and the necessary land acquired.

Ghana too is getting involved. Hope City, launched by President John Mahama in March, is supposed to be a $10-billion tech hub just outside Accra, the centrepiece of which will be a 75-storey, 270-metre-high tower surrounded by five other not-quite-as-tall skyscrapers (the unusual cluster design is supposed to channel the spirit of traditional Ghanaian compound huts).

So it will be quite amusing if those 2 countries manage to get their towers up, and SA continues to bungle things up by announcing all these plans but never get to complete anything other than spending all their money in RENAMING things that were built by the previous regime..

 

[ToxicBunny]

Again both of those projects are "propose".. I will believe them to be vaguely real when construction starts.

There are way to many projects like this that are proposed and never even see a single sod turning.

 

[XennoX]

Well you never know, our "competition" for highest building in Africa is in Ethiopia of all places, and guess who's building their tower? China .

Yeah well, and the Chinese are supposed to be developing a high tech suburb or something in Modderfontein ...