Centrally located GreenReef development set to transform city
It's all systems go when it comes to the development of GreenReef.
Pieter Swanepoel, divisional head for special projects in Ekurhuleni’s City Planning Department, gave a progress report on the development, at the City Meets Business session, held at the Kempton Park Civic Centre, on March 8.
GreenReef is an economically inclusive and socially integrated mixed-use/mixed income innovation district.
GreenReef is centrally located in Boksburg and will develop on the mining belt.
Swanepoel said it is set to transform Ekurhuleni through the development and fusion of a new CBD hub, high-density residential precincts, innovative, knowledge-based, technology and manufacturing industries, and state-of-the-art, basic, vocational and tertiary education facilities.
The project forms part of the EMM’s Ekurhuleni City Centre, as proposed in the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework.
As part of the projects, the following Township Establishment application was already approved on December 11, 2015:
*Comet Extension 18
*Reiger Park Extension 10
*Delmore Park Extension 8
“Living Africa is in negotiations with the Human Settlement Department regarding the relocation of the informal settlement located within the project.
“Specialist Projects is facilitating these meetings,” said Swanepoel.
The project is part of the City of Ekurhuleni’s pursuit to position itself as a major role player in Gauteng.
Swanepoel said the roll-out of the city’s urban development plans is aimed at encouraging local industrialists to get involved in the various developments of the city, and to contribute meaningfully to the greater provincial economic spectrum by participating in building the economy and ultimately attracting foreign investment into the city.
Some of the key proposed priority developments include the PRASA-GIBELA train manufacturing plant in Dunnottar, the Twenty-One Industrial Park, the Tambo Springs Inland Port, Carnival Junction, Glen Gory, Farm Leeuwpoort, Riversfield, Lords View and S & J.
