SA Affordable Housing July - August 2019 // Issue: 77 | Page 27

PROJECTS The latest addition to this holistic development is the regional Sky City Mall. development. Besides 17 000 affordable houses and high-density apartments, Sky City also includes schools and day-care facilities, shopping centres, a public transport hub, filling stations, community facilities, expansive parks and recreational areas and more. It aims to not only provide housing, but rather a comfortable, quality lifestyle, by offering many various amenities apart from just housing. INFRASTRUCTURE Sky City offers much more than just housing with expansive parks and recreational areas as well as schools, shopping centres, a transportation hub, community facilities and more. The civil and electrical services and infrastructure for the entire project total R1.3-billion and will be handed over to the City of Ekurhuleni as the development progresses. The infrastructure for the first two phases has already been completed at a cost of R320-million. These two phases comprise 2 961 residential 1 stands and 534 high density units, a shopping centre, filling station, transport hub, four schools and four social node stands for community facilities. "The stage is set for the industry to prosper again and Cosmopolitan Projects is ready to invest billions in the delivery of affordable housing." www.saaffordablehousing.co.za JULY - AUGUST 2019 25