This private investement shows how much Congo is winning the heart of Investors than ever before. Construction to start this summer .


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Kinshasa: Hawkwood Properties will build the City of Congo River

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This new township called "City of Congo River," will be built on the marshy site of the Congo River, according to the Minister of Decentralization and Regional Planning, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi.

The Minister of Decentralization and Regional Planning, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, has welcomed the implementation of the proposed construction of a 25th township in the city of Kinshasa, called "City of the River Congo, on the marshy site of the Congo River.
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Following a technical preparatory meeting in Kinshasa with several ministries with the Company "Hawkwood Properties, the minister Mbusa Nyamwisi stressed that the project covering 370 hectares, is an ambitious project as a result of the confidence reborn to lead the direction of the country with foreign investors.

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President Joseph Kabila Kabange, he said, demonstrated his total commitment to implement this project through the construction of a modern city in the middle Congo River. The work will consist of bringing an island from marsh.


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Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi also stressed that the project is part of the five initiatives of the Republic and contributes to the development of the city of Kinshasa.

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Hawkwood Properties, are they from Australia?

Hawkwood Properties, are they from Australia?

Yeap, you got it right. Anonther Australian Compny is to build a US$3 Billion Aluminum pant in Westen DRC , but after the INGA III Dam is built. The dam will have 4,235 MegaWatts. and the Aluminum Plant will use 2000 MegaWatts . Bas-Congo Province will be on steroids.:cheers:

I cant wait to see this project taking off. This will definitely be the single and biggest construction project the country has see years. Hopefully I can have one of the property there. Butembo, keep on bringing the good ews. We need so many of these big projects to catch up for the last years the country has been in a virtual coma.

I cant wait to see this project taking off. This will definitely be the single and biggest construction project the country has see years. Hopefully I can have one of the property there. Butembo, keep on bringing the good ews. We need so many of these big projects to catch up for the last years the country has been in a virtual coma.

Now the Chinese are projecting on building 2,450,000 social housing.

Here is the article, but it's in French.

Une entreprise chinoise veut se lancer dans la construction des logements sociaux en Rdc
Kinshasa, 12/06/2009 / Economie
Ce projet va s’étendre sur quatre phases dont la première comptera trois cent logements dans chaque province au prix qui serait à la portée de tous.

Le vice-Premier ministre chargé de la Reconstruction, Emile Bongeli a reçu mercredi dans son cabinet de travail, une délégation chinoise spécialisée dans la construction des logements sociaux.

A l’issue de l’audience, M. Zhang Kauyu, PDG de la société China national machinery et equipement import et export corporation (CMIC) a fait savoir qu’ils ont un projet de construction de deux millions quatre cent cinquante mille logements sociaux d’ici 2015 sur l’ensemble du territoire congolais.

Ce projet va s’étendre sur quatre phases dont la première comptera trois cent logements dans chaque province au prix qui serait à la portée de tous. Le vice-Premier ministre s’est dit intéressé par ce projet et souhaité qu’il se réalise dans un futur proche.

(CL/PKF)

ACP

I can wait to see this be a reallity.:)

16/06/09
City of Congo River: Work of the access way started.:cheers::banana::banana:

Source: www.cinqchantiers-rdc.com
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thanks, Butembo21. Interesting to know!

What a fantastic project for Congo!

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Will this project be built on reclaimed land or will some land be carved to form bodies of water attached to the Congo River?

woooow

Will this project be built on reclaimed land or will some land be carved to form bodies of water attached to the Congo River?

It's on some two Congo River Islands. Marshland.

Most of the marshland is east of Kinshasa and it is undeveloped and uninhabited.

Most of the marshland is east of Kinshasa and it is undeveloped and uninhabited.

Yes it is, That's why the governement just gave it up to these developers.

Very nice project, though I wish they'd been more creative in finding a sutibal name for this new city. That name sounds very corny.

Very nice project, though I wish they'd been more creative in finding a sutibal name for this new city. That name sounds very corny.

La cite du fleuve. I think the name is great gien the Islands Locations.


It's foreign private Investors. Not Congolese investors.

La cite du fleuve. I think the name is great gien the Islands Locations.


It's foreign private Investors. Not Congolese investors.

Humm, it sounds much better in Portuguese, or is that French? :)

Humm, it sounds much better in Portuguese, or is that French? :)

It's French.

In Porugese it will be "Rio Cidade".

Theres too many shady, unrealistic projects in Africa now that will not be realised in our lifetime at least. This is one of them.

ten years from now most would just be reaching their mid 30's or 40 will have to wait and see.

Brilliant news for the Congo it looks very ambitious indeed. But how much is it going to cost? And who are the contractors involved in this project? I read earlier in the thread that an Australian company is planning to build an aluminum plant costing 3 billion, will that be a distant extension of the River City project?

Brilliant news for the Congo it looks very ambitious indeed. But how much is it going to cost? And who are the contractors involved in this project? I read earlier in the thread that an Australian company is planning to build an aluminum plant costing 3 billion, will that be a distant extension of the River City project?

It will cost $5 billion dollars.

The Aluminum plant is not an extention of the River City project. There are two separate projects.
Anyways the Aluminum Smelter iis waiting for the construction of INGA 3. because it will consume 2000 MW of electricity.

Theres too many shady, unrealistic projects in Africa now that will not be realised in our lifetime at least. This is one of them.

This project will be realizex.

a project on 400 Hectares? that's not too big. That's even small .

popa1980, there is some truth to what you say. In Nigeria they are annoucing mega projects like mad but just on paper, Abuja Technology Village has been approved ages ago but still not a single stone has be laid down! This is A.F.R.I.C.A.

popa1980, there is some truth to what you say. In Nigeria they are annoucing mega projects like mad but just on paper, Abuja Technology Village has been approved ages ago but still not a single stone has be laid down! This is A.F.R.I.C.A.

Yes there are so many mega Projects announced then we will never know what happened to it.

This one has just got aproved and two weeks later the construction has just started on access to the Islands.

The Website will keep us updated.


Like the Rakkeen project( UAE's $550 million), it's already U/C.

popa1980, there is some truth to what you say. In Nigeria they are annoucing mega projects like mad but just on paper, Abuja Technology Village has been approved ages ago but still not a single stone has be laid down! This is A.F.R.I.C.A.

Matt,

This is a small fry compare to the "Luanda Sul" project, Is Angola not in Africa?

There are project that are no papers in other countries that don't get aproved as well. It's not just africa.




and what is this thing about putting all african countries in one basket?

:::BUT AS OPPOSED TO THE REST AFRICA HAS A LOOOOOOOOOOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO!!!! Africa needs hundreds of "la cité du fleuves" in order to come to where China is

:::BUT AS OPPOSED TO THE REST AFRICA HAS A LOOOOOOOOOOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO!!!! Africa needs hundreds of "la cité du fleuves" in order to come to where China is

I agree with that.....However. I don't like this puting all african countries in the same pot.

Compare countries to countries , not a Continent to a Country.

Africa has just started doig things. everybody have their own DARK DAYS AND HONEY DAYS.

Africa was better placed than Asia and had a lot of euphoria and business confdence after 1960, two generations are already lost, we cannot wait any longer!

The Congo landscape is changing. Thank you Butembo for posting.

Some of the concerns about white elephant projects in Africa can be justified. What happened to the Grand Luano City project in Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, DRC?

Some of the concerns about white elephant projects in Africa can be justified. What happened to the Grand Luano City project in Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, DRC?

Oh that one , the International Financial crisis/ world economic recession put it on hold.

But it will most likely go ahead as the Mining industry is comes back, because that's the reason why the project was planned and approved. They already have the Land.

and the it was supposed to start early 2009. www.luanocity.com

Africa was better placed than Asia and had a lot of euphoria and business confdence after 1960, two generations are already lost, we cannot wait any longer!

You are right. In the next 5 years Congo will be at a new heights.

Mulopwe just came from Kinshasa and he was supised by what the Congolese private sector is doing. and not just Kinshasa but the whole country. with the construction of Infrastructure all over Congo. i'm confident the country will grow very fast.

popa1980, there is some truth to what you say. In Nigeria they are annoucing mega projects like mad but just on paper, Abuja Technology Village has been approved ages ago but still not a single stone has be laid down! This is A.F.R.I.C.A.

Speaking of which, what happened to that big Calabar shopping development with the monorail. I know they completed it but I heard that it was a flop.

Matt,

This is a small fry compare to the "Luanda Sul" project, Is Angola not in Africa?

There are project that are no papers in other countries that don't get aproved as well. It's not just africa.




and what is this thing about putting all african countries in one basket?

I disagree, most of the projects I see announced in the UK end up being built unless they were rejected by town planners. In Africa, I doubt if even 25% of projects announced come into being.

I disagree, most of the projects I see announced in the UK end up being built unless they were rejected by town planners. In Africa, I doubt if even 25% of projects announced come into being.

there more people with money in Kinshasa and other part of Congo, plus there are so many investors in Congo . so this little project is worth it and i know it will be a success.

10,000 apartment, 10,000 offices, 700 houses, 5 star hotels . thats not much.
This to me is a small fry.
plus kinshasa's real Estate is booming .plus tourism is standing up.

I disagree, most of the projects I see announced in the UK end up being built unless they were rejected by town planners. In Africa, I doubt if even 25% of projects announced come into being.

The reason why some projects get rejected in Europe it's because Europe doens't have SPACE first of all.

2. Europe dons't need these kinds of projects because they have jobs/ or welfare.

Do you know how many jobs and money this projects will bring to Kinshasa( a city of 9.5 million people)?

You need to stop putting countries from Developed world in the same pot with Third world countries.


If everybody in UK are full , doenst mean in the third world is the same.



Plus this is a private contract , not a governement project. There is one thing that many people don't knw about Congo because we don't infranstructure like Nigeria, Ghana, CI, Kenya and others. Congolese people are one of the most business minded people on the continent, you will see it in a few years for yourself.

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Here is an update of this project read from a local newspaper in french.

« La Cité du Fleuve » : une vidéo qui fait rêver les officiels

Par Ben-Clet

Aucun invité n’a résisté à l’envie de rêver quelques instants à l’issue de la projection d’une vidéo de six minutes, magnifiant les prouesses techniques, urbanistiques et architecturales du projet immobilier de La Cité du Fleuve, qui sera érigée dans le Pool Malebo, plus précisément sur les marécages de Kingabwa, à la lisière du fleuve Congo.

Sénateurs et députés, ministres et représentants diplomatiques, hommes d’affaires et cadres d’entreprises ont répondu nombreux, le 10 juillet 2009, à l’invitation de la société Hawkwood Properties Ltd, promoteur du projet. Cadre choisi : le Cercle de Kinshasa contigu au non moins célèbre cimetière de la Gombe.
La cérémonie visait haut. C’est ce qui avait motivé le déplacement à Kinshasa de Hillary Duckworth, directeur général de la société. En recevant ses hôtes, Robert Choudury, directeur du projet en RDC, a tenu à adresser les « remerciements particuliers » H.P. SPRL au ministre des Infrastructures, travaux publics et reconstruction.

Pierre Lumbi mérite cette gratitude pour avoir « fait confiance dès le début et … coordonné la préparation du projet, faisant preuve d’une extraordinaire efficacité ». Grâce à cette implication, le Protocole d’accord a été signé le 26 mai 2009 par la RDC et la société, peu de temps seulement après l’aval du Conseil des ministres daté du 13 février.

Dans son adresse, le directeur du projet en RDC a révélé que « la société de droit congolais Hawkwood Properties SPRL est une filiale du fonds d’investissement international basé à Londres ». Et que celui-ci investit « des capitaux, principalement britanniques et américains », à partir de son siège pour l’Afrique centrale, situé à Lusaka, en Zambie.

Les fantasmes inspirés par la vidéo ne sont pas du domaine de l’impossible. Robert Choudury l’affirme : « un autre destin est possible pour Kinshasa ; les routes fracassées, les tuyauteries qui fuient, les installations électriques suicidaires ne sont pas une fatalité ; non seulement l’élite mais aussi le peuple peut échapper à ce destin ». L’une des solutions : le projet de La Cité du Fleuve, « une ville-nature vivant en symbiose plutôt qu’en opposition avec son environnement ».

Le promoteur immobilier y croit dur comme fer : « Nous pensons, et nous sommes toujours plus nombreux à le penser, qu’il est désormais possible en RDC de produire des profits dans d’autres secteurs qu’uniquement celui des ressources naturelles ».

Invités à « assimiler rapidement le projet de La Cité du Fleuve » au travers de la vidéo, les hôtes de la Hawkwood Properties SPRL se sont inconsciemment pris à rêver. Le ministre des Infrastructures résume, à lui seul, l’impression de l’assemblée. Le projet « était trop beau pour être vrai », a-t-il déclaré. Et ce, avant de remercier, au nom du gouvernement, tous les promoteurs immobiliers qui modernisent la capitale et, en particulier, ceux de La Cité du Fleuve « qui nous font rêver ». La Cité du Fleuve, en chiffres

- Superficie totale : 375 ha

- île principale : 277 ha pour 200 villas et townhouses

- île du nord : 98 ha pour 135 villas

- 9 km de périmètre

- 17 km de routes

- 3 ans de remblayage

- 22 millions m³ de sable

- 8 ans de construction immobilière

- travaux commencés en juin 2009

- appro autonome en électricité

- réseau d’égouts et de traitement des déchets

- 2 stations de traitement d’eau

- 3 hôtels *****

- 1 centre commercial

- 1 port de marchandises

- 1 centre de convention

- 10 000 appartements

- 10 000 bureaux

- 2 000 magasins

- 15 misions diplomatiques

- 2 églises

- 1 port de plaisance pour 400 bateaux

- 1 université

- 1 école secondaire

- 3 écoles maternelles

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See the presentation of the project below:
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^^ Now that's a beauty and a modern city.

why don't you chech the event at www.lacitedufleuve.com they had some really hot girls at the event.:cheers:

I would have preferred another university, school or a hospital in lieu of the 2 churches, i think they would be MUCH more beneficial to society. alot of pasteurs are thieves who swindle money from the poor; promising devine intervention will alleviate their poverty; or claiming to have the ability to cure ailments. :ohno:

:master::master: "nzambe ako sala" :bash: :bash:

^^ Now that's a beauty and a modern city.

why don't you chech the event at www.lacitedufleuve.com they had some really hot girls at the event.:cheers:

I checked the web site. Nice presentation and I can see the project looks real. I dont know about the financing and the project total cost though. I read that the initial work has already started and I cant wait to see how it will evolves. This project will change a lot of things if it really comes into effect, in the sense it can attract other foreign investors.

I checked the web site. Nice presentation and I can see the project looks real. I dont know about the financing and the project total cost though. I read that the initial work has already started and I cant wait to see how it will evolves. This project will change a lot of things if it really comes into effect, in the sense it can attract other foreign investors.

$1 billion for the land prepearation, then $4 billion for the rest of reconstruction.

Total $ 5 Billion .

3ans de remblayage et 8ans de construction that's a lot!

3ans de remblayage et 8ans de construction that's a lot!

It's a big project , the environment is complicated, that why. It's not easy to build on Island.

But i think it will be finished in less than 10 years.

I would have preferred another university, school or a hospital in lieu of the 2 churches, i think they would be MUCH more beneficial to society. alot of pasteurs are thieves who swindle money from the poor; promising devine intervention will alleviate their poverty; or claiming to have the ability to cure ailments. :ohno:

:master::master: "nzambe ako sala" :bash: :bash:

This is with whom they want to place their faith?

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Great PR at the website. Wasn't that Mr. Ben-Clet with the baseball hat in one of the photos?

Here is my question: Given the infrastructure (sewer, electricity, road, telecommunications, etc) neglect that Kinshasa has experienced over way too many years how can the company provide such services in Kingabwa...and please tell me that they will not be dumping sewage in the Congo River. The pollution level in parts of the Congo River is so high now that the fishermen in Bas Congo are going out of business!

How does this project fit into the overall urban renewal plan that I am hoping the Governor of Kinshasa and Oliver Kamitatu's people have been working on?

Great PR at the website. Wasn't that Mr. Ben-Clet with the baseball hat in one of the photos?

Here is my question: Given the infrastructure (sewer, electricity, road, telecommunications, etc) neglect that Kinshasa has experienced over way too many years how can the company provide such services in Kingabwa...and please tell me that they will not be dumping sewage in the Congo River. The pollution level in parts of the Congo River is so high now that the fishermen in Bas Congo are going out of business!

How does this project fit into the overall urban renewal plan that I am hoping the Governor of Kinshasa and Oliver Kamitatu's people have been working on?


Welcome to SSC Africa.


The project is $5 billion , they will build a whole town on the Island. about the polution in the river. something sooner or later must happen.

There must be Sewer treatment plants all over the city or we will see the end of of that river and people dying like birds.

Thanks for the welcome Butembo21.

Given the construction costs of roads here in the USA where builders have ready access to materials I have to wonder if $5 b will be sufficient to construct a sewer treatment plant, roads, telecommunications etc given that they will have to import most of the materials. And of course there are always cost overruns.:)

All the more reason that the DRC must diversify its economic base rather than relying so heavily on mining (admittedly a ready source of funding). Agriculture comes to mind immediately. How about eco-tourism? Costa Rica has already modeled the way eco-tourism can become an important factor in a country's development. How about making it easier for the entrepreneurs set up businesses? The thriving informal economy in the DRC is clear evidence of the strong entrepreneurial spirit that exists.

But the big thing is: thoughtful and long term planning so that all activities are carefully coordinated and sequenced.

Bilonda ,

First welcome to SSC.

The rivercity project is a private initiative .... private funding etc... therefore government has limited input in it. My understanding is that , most will be pre lease prior construction to secure finance so it is feasible

Mulopwe