https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Zendai to break ground on Modder residential development

9th October 2015

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

  

Font size: - +

Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Zendai is set to break ground on its first luxury residential development in South Africa as part of its wider long-term 25- to 40-year plans to transform its expansive Modderfontein-based property into a 22 km2 mixed-use ‘city’ in close proximity to OR Tambo International Airport.

Shanghai Zendai subsidiary Zendai Development South Africa (ZDSA) aimed to start construction on the first phase of The Centenary during the first quarter of 2016, with completion expected early in 2017, ZDSA CEO Anthony Diepenbroek said last month at the launch of the development.

He explained that the modern one-, two- and three-bedroom units on offer would be spread across six blocks of six-storey buildings housed across landscaped parks and walkways, with the first phase opening the initial 150 of 300 “designer” apartments available to the market.

The 12 ha apartment estate would feature several amenities for residents, including a swimming pool, an outdoor gym, a clubhouse and children’s play areas, as well as security features, biometric and closed-circuit television access control.

The apartments themselves would be equipped with imported Miele gas ovens, hobs and extractors, luxury sanitaryware, acoustic windows, high-speed fibre-optic and WiFi points and energy-efficient down- lighters.

About R400-million had already been spent over the past year to establish roads, water and sewerage and electricity infrastructure, with the estate surrounded by a currently- under-construction 200-bed hospital, soon-to-be-built school, the Modderfontein Golf Course and Flamingo Dam and the proposed Modderfontein Gautrain station, the design of which was under way, with construction set to begin in 2017.

Apartments at The Centenary were priced from R1.15-million for a one-bedroom unit, R2.2-million for a two-bedroom unit and R2.8-million for a three-bedroom apartment.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

Comments

Showroom

Booyco Electronics
Booyco Electronics

Booyco Electronics, South African pioneer of Proximity Detection Systems, offers safety solutions for underground and surface mining, quarrying,...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Actom image
Actom

Your one-stop global energy-solution partner

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.097 0.163s - 144pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now