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."
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