By Mavis Paintsil, Accra
The bustling communities of Nima Mamobi, Accra Newton and Kotobaabi will go through redevelopment to gain first- class residential stature and commercial communities to spur socioeconomic growth.
The redevelopment will see the construction of estimated 301,000 housing units to be financed by the the Ghana Fund at the cost of $40 billion.
The redeveloped area would again have 5,000 seat conference room, 2000 seat theatre, 3,000,000 square metres of underground shopping arcade and 800,000 square metres of food market.
There would be 25 Kilometres metro rail transport system, 50 Kilometres of pedestrians way and dedicated ways for electric shop carts, 100,000 bed hospital and 720,000 square metres of Congress and exhibition space.
Over two million square metres rehicle repair centre with 7,000 repair and parts dealership shops, 10,000 square meters space for lost- and Found Bureau, a 24 hour electronic security surveillance of all public areas and advanced automated waste management systems would be put in place.
Over 30 percent of the development area would also be exclusively designed for arboriculture.
A temporary structure that could accommodate more than 200,000 people would be established as safe haven for relocation to facilitate construction works.
The beneficiaries will get their apartments at no cost and depending on what you have now, you may get one bedroom, two bedroom or three bedroom apartments, Dr added.
According to Dr Atidigah, only 10 percent of the apartments which will be one bedroom and kitchen will be rented out.
The Dr, said, consultations and negotiations were ongoing with relevant stakeholders and for the release of the land.
Construction works, which would start by July this year, would last for five years, he added.
T his fails under the Accra Inner-city Redevelopment Project (Phase1).The President, Ghana Fund, Dr Noskim Atidigah, said this at a Public forum in his presentation on the details of the construction and functionality of these towns, designed to draw massive domestic and international towns traffic.
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