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Post Images/Render, Plans, Constructions and Discussions on Kenya's Fast growing Financial and Middle/Upper Class District.

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Middle income district to some extent but Upper class? I will try get some pics.

Check out Jannah Villas in Eastleigh. www.sebestates.com I'm still having a hard time trying to post pics. How the hell do you guys do it:ohno:

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Buruburu Estate.

This was considered the largest housing project in East and Central Africa when it was built in the 70's. I dont know if it still keeps that title today.

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Umoja.

This high density suburb continues getting built up as usual with taller flats.

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Pirate money heheh.

I think most rich Somalis and other horn of Africa Immigrants came to Kenya as a safe haven and then they used their wealth to create more wealth even before the pirates menace began, so lets give them their fair due.

I think most rich Somalis and other horn of Africa Immigrants came to Kenya as a safe haven and then they used their wealth to create more wealth even before the pirates menace began, so lets give them their fair due.

Agree 100%:)

I think most rich Somalis and other horn of Africa Immigrants came to Kenya as a safe haven and then they used their wealth to create more wealth even before the pirates menace began, so lets give them their fair due.

^^one of them is my dad who has big house behind the chief camp originally from mandera:bow::applause:

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Kenya: Eastleigh Goes Global

Paul Goldsmith17 August 2008

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Nairobi — You can get anything you need here--even human body parts!" So I was told during my first visit to Eastleigh.

The year was 1979, and even then, Eastleigh was somehow different from other Nairobi mitaa (neighbourhoods). The streets were cluttered but non-threatening. Unpretentious kiosks served up excellent food to the sound of exotic music.


The usual complement of hustlers looked for an opening, but did not hassle. Like Louisiana, a haven for pirates and smugglers -- indeed, the laissez faire but jazzy social ambiance reminded me of New Orleans.

Eastleigh is served by public transport plying routes 6 and 9. Vehicles departing from opposite sides of Tom Mboya Street inscribe a loop transiting Nairobi's original Asian and Afro-Arab neighbourhoods, comparable to London's Circle Line, and criss-cross in Eastleigh. Although Pumwani, Ngara, or Pangani could have emerged as loci for similar transformations, this relatively small cityscape provided the stage for changes setting it apart from the rest of Nairobi.

The purpose of my initial visit was a meeting with the Yahoos -- a product of one of those unpremeditated moments of inspiration when a clutch of friends dedicate themselves to doing good acts. The Yahoos were a mixed bag of self-described "Kenyans" that included several members of that era's cultural elite.

I ended up spending many a pleasant afternoon on the balcony of the musician and arranger, Slim Ali, discussing a range of contemporary topics with representatives of Eastleigh's ethnic, religious, cultural, and occupational diversity.

Twenty-five years later, Slim's second-story veranda on the corner of Wood Street overlooks a scene both familiar and radically changed. The new has grafted onto the old. First Avenue is now a permanent traffic jam lined with walls of stalls.

Around the corner, Garissa Lodge, which launched a new business model by converting rooms into small shops, has undergone its third makeover, setting the standard for Eastleigh's glitzy shopping complexes.


Enticing aromas and sounds still waft from the nondescript kiosks -- that also house high-tech communication facilities connecting the locals to the expanding cultural universes of ethnic Diaspora.

Commerce, capital, and international linkages have transformed the intersection of routes 6 and 9 into the epicentre of Nairobi's indigenous economy. Ethnic capital is challenging entrenched formal-sector interests (neo-colonialism, as it used to be described once upon a time).

In a 1997 interview on the KTN news, Kenya's then finance minister George Saitoti remarked that the Central Bank fixes its currency exchange rates after checking with the money-dealers in Garissa Lodge.

The wealthy man is, to paraphrase the Nigerian adage, a fountain where all the birds of the world come to drink: First Street is an Afro-oriental bazaar where they come to shop, cut deals, chew khat. Westlands is posh, the Village Market is chic, but Eastleigh is the Horn of Africa's most important crossroads.

Fancy structures several years old fade as a succession of larger and shinier buildings sprout up along decayed streets. Flagstones and awnings are reclaiming the reserves on their margins, which turn into a fetid slurry of mud and trash during the rains.

Rivers of pedestrians weave their way through litter generated by the diverse commodities on display. In Eastleigh, urban decay provides fertile ground for the growth of commerce and capital.

If socioeconomic transition is a messy process, Eastleigh's funk is evidence of transition going full-tilt; competing theories highlight diverse factors that set the process in motion.

Adam Smith singled out economic geography -- concentrations of key resources, coastlines, and other trade-enabling factors; for Marx, it was the social relations of production. Ideologists of the Asian Tigers credit superior cultural values.


In Africa, a succession of policies from commercial agriculture to privatisation to governance reform to poverty alleviation have yet to significantly reverse the continent's economic malaise.

Over the same period, Eastleigh has gone from modest residential neighbourhood to vibrant multiethnic marketplace. Some unlikely factors gave rise to this improbable exemplar of adaptation to infrastructural neglect, state collapse, and social marginalisation. But before examining how this came about, we need to locate the phenomenon in space and time.

The Eastleigh of the colonial planners comprised seven roughly contiguous sections. Eastleigh sections One and Two fall along First and Second Avenues, and are separated from Section Three by a large tract of aerodrome land and California and Biafra estates.

Section Seven occupies the pocket adjacent to Pumwani and General Waruinge Road. Sections Four, Five, and Six exist in name only; it is not clear where in this landscape they would fit if they did.

Though confusing, the configuration is somehow consistent with Nairobi's inchoate road grid, haphazard zoning, and counter-intuitive pattern of formal and informal settlement. It only follows that a rundown neighbourhood associated with several of Kenya's more conservative communities figures in the emergence of the region's most dynamic economic hub.

In the beginning, Eastleigh was residential. The Sikhs and Goans who originally occupied Eastleigh Phase One were socially less clannish than other Asian communities, and perhaps this influenced the area's post-Uhuru shift from ethnic enclave to Nairobi's first transitional neighbourhood.

The transition to this Phase Two dates back to the quiet acquisition of houses by Somali women before post-independence Africanisation gathered steam.


Like the well-documented phenom-enon in Mombasa, many of the women landlords were divorcees who became courtesans. Property was a low-profile but profitable investment for such women. Their holdings in turn provided the magnet for Somalis and other pastoralists migrating from the rangelands of the north.

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While their numbers gave Eastleigh its strong Somali imprint, they are perhaps the largest in a mix of minorities -- ethnic entrepreneurs explaining its rise as a commercial habitat whose multicultural synergies distinguished it from the city's other business districts.

Swahili and other urbanised Africans began to buy property as the Asians moved to new haunts in South C and Nairobi West; some remained behind to run businesses. The Gikuyu presence in Eastleigh increased apace with their expanding financial clout during the Kenyatta era.

Eastleigh became a place where Somali transporters parked their double trailers along side streets, coastal Swahili ran lodgings, Gikuyu women sold produce and their men ran bars, and Meru miraa traders hung up their banana leaf flags outside shops. The Kamba sold tires, Ethiopians turned their living rooms into cafes, and the flashes of Luo welders lit up the night.

The integrative dynamic at work in Eastleigh was essentially the same as the Swahilisation preceding it in the multi-ethnic majengo settlements of Kenya's cities and towns. But class, mobility, and government intervention insured that Pumwani, the mother of all these majengos, remained an unreformed ghetto. Nairobi's first African neighbourhood, once home to Jomo Kenyatta and Milton Obote, Pumwani became synonymous with poverty and crime after Uhuru.

Sustainable Development
Three separate urban renewal projects have failed to alleviate Pumwani's overcrowded conditions. The construction of California Estate saw its original Swahili inhabitants shift next door, only for a new wave of relatives and strangers to move in before their old dwellings could be razed.

Biafra was created with the same objective in mind, but the result was the same. And the blocks of high-rise flats built in 1989 only increased the numbers residing amid Majengo's open sewers and filth.

Although Eastleigh started at a higher level in respect to housing and roads, the area experienced a similar degree of infrastructural deterioration during the 1980s. Roads were potholed, garbage piled up, and houses and shops disappeared behind lines of illegal kiosks. But several critical factors insured it did not follow the downward pathway of Pumwani and other areas of Nairobi's Eastlands.

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This mixed-income African area due east of the city centre has expanded in recent decades. At its heart lies Buru Buru, built as a middle-income estate in the 1970s and 1980s and inhabited by Kenyan business people and professionals and a few expatriates on short-term assignments; accommodation is mainly in small, two-storey townhouses in quiet cul-de-sacs. Many properties have now been converted into cheap bed-sits and single rooms, especially in the north.

There is a wide range of shops and amenities along Mumias South Road, the area’s central artery; facilities include a petrol station, supermarkets, a foreign exchange bureau and a chemist, as well as a private swimming pool and several pubs and bars. Barclays Bank, one of the main banks operating in Kenya, is also due to open several branches here. The shops draw crowds from outside the area, and there is heavy traffic along main roads.

The area is served by bus and matatu. A taxi to the city centre costs around Ksh500.

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By Mark Doyle
BBC world affairs correspondent

The desolate, dusty town of Pibor on South Sudan's border with Ethiopia has no running water, no electricity and little but mud huts for the population to live in. You would be hard put to find a poorer place anywhere on earth.

I went there as part of a journey across Africa to ask the question "Why is Africa poor?" for a BBC radio documentary series. We have oil and many other minerals - go name it Barnaba Benjamin, South Sudan regional co-operation minister I was asked to investigate why it is that the vast majority of African countries are clustered at or near the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index - in other words they have a pretty appalling standard of living.

In Pibor, the answer to why the place is poor seems fairly obvious. The people - most of whom are from the Murle ethnic group - are crippled by tribal conflicts related to disputes over cattle, the traditional store of wealth in South Sudan. The Murle have recently had fights with the Lol Nuer group to the north of Pibor and with ethnic Bor Dinkas to the west.

In a spate of fighting with the Lol Nuer earlier this year several hundred people, many of them women and children, were killed in deliberate attacks on villages. There has been a rash of similar clashes across South Sudan in the past year (although most were on a smaller scale than the fights between the Lol Nuer and the Murle).

And so the answer to why South Sudan is poor is surely a no-brainer: War makes you destitute.

Why is there so much war?
And yet South Sudan is potentially rich. "It's bigger than Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi combined," the South Sudan Regional Co-operation Minister Barnaba Benjamin, enthused. "Tremendous land! Very fertile, enormous rainfall, tremendous agricultural resources. Minerals! We have oil and many other minerals - go name it!" Our leaders, they just want to keep on being rich. And they don't want to pay taxes

It is not just that there is war. The question should, perhaps be: "Why is there so much war?" And the headline question is in fact misleading; Africans as a people may be poor, but Africa as a place is fantastically rich - in minerals, land, labour and sunshine. That is why outsiders have been coming here for hundreds of years - to invade, occupy, convert, plunder and trade.

The spectres of slavery and colonialism hover in the background of almost every serious conversation with Africans about why most of them are poor. It almost goes without saying that, of course, slavery impoverished parts of Africa and that colonialism set up trading patterns which were aimed at benefitting the coloniser, not the colonised.

But there is a psychological impact too.
Hajia Amina Az-Zubair, the Nigerian president's senior adviser on poverty issues, told me that colonialism "was all about take, not build", and that this attitude "transferred itself into a lot of mindsets". Even today, Ms Zubair said it was sometimes difficult to design poverty-reduction programmes that were inclusive:

"You sit round a table and ask 'What are your needs?' and you get an absolute blank. Because for years, they've been told what they're going to have. So even the ability to engage has been difficult for us." The resources of South Sudan have never been properly developed.

During colonial rule South Sudan was used as little more than a reservoir of labour and raw materials. Then independence was followed by 50 years of on-off war between the south and north - with northerners in Khartoum continuing the British tactic of divide and rule among the southern groups. Some southerners believe this is still happening today.

Corruption
On my journey across the poorest, sub-Saharan swathe of the continent - that took in Liberia and Nigeria in the west, Sudan in the centre, and Kenya in the east - people explored the impact that both non-Africans and Africans had had on why Africa is poor.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says she underestimated the problem of graft
Almost every African I met, who was not actually in government, blamed corrupt African leaders for their plight. "The gap between the rich and the poor in Africa is still growing," said a fisherman on the shores of Lake Victoria.

"Our leaders, they just want to keep on being rich. And they don't want to pay taxes." Even President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia came close to this when she told me she had underestimated the level of corruption in her country when she took office.

"Maybe I should have sacked the whole government when I came to power," she said. "Africa is not poor," President Johnson-Sirleaf added, "it is poorly managed." This theme was echoed by an architect in Kenya and a senior government official in Nigeria. Both pointed out that the informal sector of most African economies is huge and almost completely unharnessed.

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Eastleigh has the most expensive real estate in Nairobi
Marketplaces, and a million little lean-to repair shops and small-scale factories are what most urban Africans rely upon for a living. But such is their distrust of government officials that most businesspeople in the informal sector avoid all contact with the authorities.

Kenyan architect and town planner Mumo Museva took me to the bustling Eastleigh area of Nairobi, where traders have created a booming economy despite the place being almost completely abandoned by the government.

Eastleigh is a filthy part of the city where rubbish lies uncollected, the potholes in the roads are the size of swimming pools, and the drains have collapsed. Africa is not poor. Africa is just poorly managed

Architect Mumo Museva
But one indication of the success of the traders, Mr Museva said, was the high per-square-foot rents there. "You'll be surprised to note that Eastleigh is the most expensive real estate in Nairobi." He added that if Eastleigh traders trusted the government they might pay some taxes in return for decent services, so creating a "virtuous circle".

"It would lift people out of poverty," he said. "Remember, poverty is related to quality of life, and the quality of life here is appalling, despite the huge amount of wealth flowing through these areas." Then the young Kenyan architect echoed the Liberian president, some 5,000km (3,000 miles) away on the other side of the continent. "Africa is not poor," he also said. "Africa is just poorly managed."

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Somali Music sensation K'naan in Eastleigh Nairobi
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K’naan in Eastleigh, Nairobi, where he shot the video of Soobax..
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By PHILIP MWANIKI Posted Saturday, April 25 2009 at 16:33

The mention of Somalia evokes images of piracy, violence and general lawlessness. Rarely is the country associated with success, especially of a musical nature. But Kanaan Warsame, a Somali youth living in the United States, is giving the country the much-needed image boost with a new style of music.

Kanaan, or K’naan to his legion of fans, is receiving rave reviews from fans and critics alike for his new rap sound that has been described as a cross between reggae great Bob Marley and hip-hop superstar Eminem, due to his skill in brilliantly blending Western style and African influences.

K’naan is a role model to many youths, having escaped death narrowly in Somalia and went to become a rap sensation. As a teenager, Kanaan picked up a hand grenade near his school and, mistaking it for a ball, tossed it away. The grenade destroyed half of his school and he escaped with minor injuries.

Fortunately, there was no one inside because of school holidays. His younger brother followed suit, blowing up a police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu at the age of 10. He was arrested, but since there was no government or courts to try him, he was set free.

“That was the time Mogadishu started getting bad, and the war was starting and there were live mines all over, and that explains how I got the grenade in the first place,” K’naan said in a telephone interview with Lifestyle from London where he was on tour. “As for my brother, he has a good record now, and he leads a good life.”

It was a lucky break, and he knows it, and that’s why today the only thing exploding for K’naan is his rap career which has catapulted him to fame in the hip-hop world. This is no small feat for someone who learnt English from listening to rap songs after he and his family sought refuge in the US after fleeing the fighting that spread through Somalia in 1991 after the ouster of President Siad Barre.

“I did not care about English because, back then, we never thought we would ever have to leave our country like we did, and even though I started listening to rap music while still in Somalia, it wasn’t until I got to America that I had to learn it first,” K’naan said.

His father had left Somalia earlier and settled in New York City where he worked as a cab driver to send money back to his family. He also sent hip-hop albums to K’naan, who was fascinated by the genre. “The first album I got was Erik B and Rakim’s Paid in Full, but after we got to America, it was Nas’ first album that helped teach me English,” he said.

He and the rest of the family left Mogadishu on the last commercial flight before chaos engulfed the city; their visas had been approved on the last day the US Embassy was open. They landed in New York where they moved in with relatives in Harlem, the traditional black American neighbourhood in Manhattan, and enrolled in school. Life was hard.

“There was a lot of pressure of being black to start with, but being from Somalia and living in the ghetto was just as bad, and life was really hard at first. I even suffered from depression because of it,” he said.

Limited resources
“Life as an immigrant is hard because people assume things about you and think you have come to compete for limited resources they think they should have. It is a life nobody should go through because you are in a place you feel you clearly don’t belong.”

The family later moved to the Canadian city of Toronto, to a neighbourhood called Rexdale, where there is a large Somali community. It was there K’naan began to learn English, some of which he picked up through hip-hop albums, which also sparked his interest in rap music. He dropped out of school in tenth grade to travel and rapped at open mic events; he eventually returned to Toronto.

K’naan comes from a musical family. His aunt Magool was one of Somalia’s most famous singers, and his grandfather, Haji Mohamed, was a poet. In the late 1990s, K’naan, which means “traveller” in Somali, met well-known Canadian promoter Sol Guy, who helped him launch his career.

“I met K’naan through a mutual friend, a schoolteacher in Toronto, when we found ourselves at schools doing hip-hop-themed events to help educate young people about Africa,” Guy told Lifestyle. “What impressed me was his raw talent, unbelievable sense of melody and a very clear desire to get his music and his message to the world. Honestly, he seemed destined for greatness, and that’s still how I feel to this day.”

Sol Guy helped K’naan secure a gig speaking before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1999 where the young Somali performed a spoken word piece criticising the UN for its failed aid missions to Somalia. One of the members of the audience, Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, was so impressed by the young poet’s performance and courage that he invited him to contribute to his 2001 album Building Bridges, a project through which K’naan toured the world.

It also led to his working at other UN events, as well as at the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Halifax Pop Explosion. And it helped him meet Canadian producer Jarvis Church and his Track & Field team in 2002, who produced his debut album, The Dusty Foot Philosopher, which was released in 2005 to critical acclaim. He collaborated on one song with Kenyan rapper Mwafrika.

Due to K’naan’s ability to tell his war story with a sense of humour and brilliant rap skills, the album received the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 2006 and was nominated for the inaugural Polaris Music Prize. It also won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the newcomer category for 2007 as well as Hip-Hop Album of the Year in Canada.

The Dusty Foot Philosopher was released again and re-packaged last year by the emerging media company and record label iM (Interdependent Media) in a deluxe edition featuring new mixes and a bonus DVD. The album included the hit single Soobax, a percussion-filled protest song whose video was shot in Eastleigh, Kenya.“Soobax means ‘come out’, and I was addressing the warlords who have brought so much anguish to Somalis, forcing them to relocate from their country and suffer away from home.

We shot it in Kenya because of the high number of Somalis living there, and that is why we went to Eastleigh,” he said. The song was used in “Fifa 06” video game. The album opened many doors for the artiste who started touring with music heavyweights like Nas, Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Damian Marley, Nelly Furtado, The Roots, Dead Prez, and Pharoahe Monch. Damian Marley invited him on the Welcome to Jamrock touring session.

His follow-up album, Troubadour, which was released two months ago, proved that K’naan is no one-hit wonder. The album, which features Kirk Hammett of the group Metallica, Damian Marley, Mos Def, Chubb Rock and Adam Levine of Jurassic 5, debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200 and number 12 on the US Billboard top rap albums.

Metallica, the nine-time Grammy award-winning rock group that has sold a staggering 100 million albums worldwide, have a policy of not doing any collaborations, but they waived it for the fast-rising rapper.

“After we recorded, the group met, listened to the song If Rap Gets Jealous and they loved it. After several discussions, they allowed it to be on my album, and it was such an honour to have that privilege. I was also invited by Damian Marley and we recorded a song together with other artistes like Mos Def, and this was a highlight for me,” K’naan said.

One of the songs on the album ABCs is used in the video game Madden 09. He has also used the album to talk about the pirates who are hijacking ships and taking hostages in the Indian Ocean.

Failed state
“Troubadour is a song where I raise the issue because many are only seeing piracy, but there is more to it than that; it is a way of protesting a failed state,” he said. “For us to address the issue of piracy, we must go deeper to the root cause.

He has started a song contest on the social site Twitter where he has invited followers of his blog to download an instrumental of People Like Me and submit their suggestions for lyrics via the website.

The deadline for submissions is May 1 when K’naan will choose the best lines and work them into a complete song—the first time Twitter will officially be used for the creation of such a project.

“Twitter approached me and asked me if we could work together. I agreed because it is a popular site, easy to use and the idea was very creative. I want to give people a chance to showcase their talent and tell their story,” he said. He wants to continue telling his story about Somalia in the hopes that it will help bring change to his homeland. “I also want to do an African tour and get a chance to visit Somalia since it has not been possible since I left as a 13-year-old,” he said.
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Eastleigh High School (EHS) My former School.

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Eastlands Sprawl
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Eastlands Mall
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Published on 16/10/2008
By Millicent Muthoni

Westlands has The Mall and Sarit Centre. Mombasa Road has Capital Centre, Ngong Road has The Junction, Nakumatt Prestige and Uchumi Hyper, while the upmarket Gigiri boasts the Village Market.

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The Village Market shopping mall in Nairobi’s upmarket Gigiri offers a luxurious shopping experience

These are some of Nairobi’s most popular shopping malls that have gained increasing popularity over the years and given a fresh impetus to the shopping experience. But Eastlands, which is patronised by Nairobi’s 2.5 million residents, mainly from low to middle income class, is a world apart. Although shopping arcades dot areas like Eastleigh, they are not the archetypal malls. Perhaps the biggest inhibitor for big time investors is that most areas in Eastlands lack prerequisite infrastructure.

Buruburu shopping centre for instance, has grown immensely with the setting up of Tuskys supermarket, which has a few supporting shops and restaurants. However, the scale of this arcade is modest as is the variety of services and goods provided there. This will, however, soon be a thing of the past as developers prepare to break ground with pioneer malls.

Housing Finance is finalising plans for a mall in Komarock Estate while a private developer — Virgin Estates Ltd — will soon be erecting another one in Sosian Estate, past Jacaranda Estate on your way towards Kayole. It is expected that the malls will transform the socio-economic landscape.

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Sarit Centre

Urban development
Wachira Njuguna, the Executive Chairman of Virgin Estates, says his inspiration to venture East was inspired out of a deep-seated need to incorporate the region in urban development trends. "There is no reason why Eastlands should be left out," he says. "Presently, children are forced to traverse the city when they want to watch big screen movies or see an escalator."

Njuguna is positive that the Sh271million project dubbed ‘East Gate, The Good Life’, will encourage other developers to venture eastwards and put up more appealing buildings.

"Apart from offering a convenient shopping experience, the mall will also give Eastlands a glimpse of glamour through modern architecture that provides an orderly and relaxing urban environment," he says.

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The Mall in Westlands is one of Kenya’s two pioneer malls. The other is the Yaya Centre.
Photos: Pius Cheruiyot/Standard

Part of the success of any mall is pegged on the population of the catchment area and how well they can access it. Njuguna explains that his four-floor shop ping complex will be strategically located between Donholm, Komarock, Umoja and Jacaranda estates, meaning it will ride on the untapped population of 600,000 living within a three-kilometre radius.

"The surrounding estates are home to 120,000 households each spending an average of Sh5,000 per month on fast moving consumable goods," says Njuguna. "We are targeting 20 per cent of the Sh600 million spent in these catchments."

The East Gate mall will occupy two acres of land with a total space of 78,091 sq.ft. to let out. Sarit Centre in comparison has a daunting 215,300 sq.ft. of shopping space while the Capital Centre offers 122,200 sq.ft.

Rents for commercial space in Sosian Estate range between Sh40 per sq.ft. (Naivas Supermarket) and Sh65 per sq.ft. (Kenchic).

The mall will retail space from Sh45 per sq.ft. to Sh60 per sq.ft.

Economies of scale
In high-end areas, malls let space at much higher prices. The Junction, for instance, rents out at Sh180 per sq.ft. while Westgate and Yaya Centre demand between Sh200 and Sh250 per sq.ft.

Anchor shops and fine ambience are known attractions for shoppers. In Kenya, supermarkets that have a strong brand become the kicker as they attract a pool of loyal clientele. Once inside, shoppers get to discover small stores within the vicinity. Sarit Centre and Capital Centre have Uchumi supermarkets in their premises as their kickers, while The Junction, Village Market, Prestige, Westgate and Crossroads have the Nakumatt chain of supermarket stores. Yaya Centre in Kilimani houses Chandarana supermarket. Only The Mall in Westlands records a loud absence of a super-market.

Among the anchor tenants of the new mall in Eastlands will be Tuskys, Kenya Commercial Bank, Safaricom, Zain, Bata, AAR and Kenchic.

Economies of scale will inevitably bring prices down. However, there is a possibility that the mall will strangle a number of surrounding small-scale enterprises considering residential estates and commercial buildings surround the mall’s site.

In order to adapt to the fast pace synonymous with Eastlands, Njuguna explains they have included clauses in the lease that will encourage entrepreneurs to operate till midnight everyday. "The project is diverse in nature to reflect the aspirations of the people of Eastlands."

Other recreational facilities that the new mall will provide include a health and recreation club, movie theatres, a hospital, a food court, and a vast rooftop for children to play. Breaking away from normal practice, this mall will also have an alcohol-free dance hall for the vibrant youth and an open-air concert space. "We have done this to tap the rich artistic talent and entertainment culture in the area," explains Njuguna.

Proliferation of malls
Barely 10 years ago, there were only two shopping malls in Nairobi — Yaya Centre and The Mall. But in the last few years there has been a proliferation of shopping malls. The Sh700million Junction mall has daily traffic averaging at 4,000 people which doubles during weekends. It serves the suburban areas of Kilimani, Ngong Road, Lavington, Kileleshwa and Karen.

Sarit Centre and Yaya Centre record an average of 20,000 daily, with the busiest days being witnessed on Wednesdays, Fridays and weekends. Developers rarely let out space to first timers in business because they ride on the awareness and popularity of the large businesses. Movie theatres, entertainment spots and food courts are often strategically housed on the top floors that most people would otherwise avoid.

Variety in the tenant base is also crucial to the success of a mall. Customers expect a one-stop shop in a mall and as a result, such shopping centres must have good circulation for pedestrians, interesting shop fronts, clear sightlines, lively streets with movement, colour, shop front exposure, a pleasant environment and good maintenance in order to draw customers.

Communication also adds a sense of entitlement for the customers, which is why the popular malls have developed interactive websites to ease communication with customers.

Infor: www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=11439970...

^^any updates about the 3 U/C malls in the eastlands?:cheers:

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One question. Is south B, South C, Ruaraka considered as part of Eastlands?

One question. Is south B, South C, Ruaraka considered as part of Eastlands?

Thats an Interesting question, I think their is no clear cut lines but in my own estimation although South B and more so C are growing towards langata the origins is Eastlands. I believe that Makadara is in Langata and Ruaraka should be included in another region with the likes of Githurai, Zimmerman and KU and maybe Muthaiga. Well the decision is still out their.

A break from the ordinary

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Greenspan Estate is a new residential development in the Eastlands area of the Kenyan capital that has broken ranks with the tired, traditional designs.
Greenspan Investments Ltd has brought to Eastlands a new modern design in real estate - the open plan.
The most distinctive feature in the design by the lead consultants Ms U Design Architects is the stylish orientation of the lounge, dining and kitchen with breakfast area for four. The open plan is well demarcated with aesthetically designed high quality fine veneered finish of MDF low and high level cabinets under an expansive granite worktop.
The project, estimated to cost over U$40 million, commenced in February 2009 and is envisaged to be ready in a record three years. Phase I comprising 61 maisonettes and 110 apartments is 90 percent complete. Interest from buyers is tremendous, with the sales team from the mortgage financier, Housing Finance, reporting good progress.
The development will see an addition of over 1000 dwellings to the housing needs of Eastland’s area.
At completion, The Greenspan Estate will be provide a self-contained living environment for residents in terms of basic services such as shopping with the coming of a modern mall that has already been leased to a well established supermarket retailer. There is also provision for community centre, school and hospital.
The architects in conjunction with the developer have been able to strike a balance in order to meet the requirements of the wide range of buyers and end users by providing variety of designs and sizes by availing two, three and four-bedroom units which make sthe estate ideal for both tenants and home owners.
Detailed description
The Development
The project shall comprise three and four-bedroom maisonettes; two and three-bedroom apartments, a shopping mall and a community centre.
Maisonettes
The front façade has an attractive, unique, arched curtain window at the staircase area that serves as the signature to the units. The main entrance leads to a spacious lounge with low cill casement windows providing ample lighting to the entire lounge/dining and kitchen area.
The only enclosures on the ground floor are the cloakroom conveniently located at the main entrance and the kitchen store discreetly located under the staircase. The upper floors comprise two spacious bedrooms with a common bath and master en suite complete with a bathtub. The master bedroom extends outwards to provide for a bay window that provides a classic view of the lawn.
At the main entrance is a self contained DSQ that provides convenience and encloses the kitchen yard/laundry.
Apartments
Greenspan Estate is served by a spine road along which a boundary wall has been constructed to separate the apartments and the maisonettes. The apartment blocks are well clustered to form a courtyard, which has a serene view from each lounge. All apartments have an additional feature - a large balcony overlooking the parking lot.
Shopping mall
This facility is architecturally well planned and oriented so as to give an appeal to the entire development and at the same time as a distinct feature that provides an escape from the usual unplanned development that characterizes the area.
Location and access
The estate located, along Savannah road has a record five access routes connecting to Outer Ring and Kangundo roads. The completion of Embakasi road will see a direct route to the airport through Tassia estate.
Security
The estates own spine road has security checks at both ends. Individual courts of both the apartments and maisonettes have guard houses. The entire development is surrounded by masonry boundary wall with electrified razor wire. An existing police post at the entrance to the adjacent Jacaranda Estate provides addition security.
Services
There is already a bore hole on site with adequate supply to supplement the mains that will be collected in an underground water storage tank. A high level water tank on tower is under construction to regulate and provide uninterrupted flow.
The green revolution
With the dwindling energy sources, there are provisions for solar installations for all.
Construction material
The main construction materials and finishes:
Walls: Machine-dressed Ruiru stone to receive recessed pointing externally
Floors: Saj Ceramic tiles in all areas with granite tiles in lounge and dining
Walls: Plaster and painted( First quality crown paint)
Ceiling: Painted chip board
Roof: Imported Sand blasted roof tiles from Decra.
External paving: Cabro paving road works with paved footpaths.


http://main.constructionreviewonline.com/oct09kenya.html
^^ the crazy shopping mall in every project is making me to wonder if they are viable:cheers::bash:

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Located Near the Main Gold Market in Eastleigh and Garrisa lodge, also located near the main Jam road and Jam fries. The Garrisa lodge Market and Amal placent are adjusted to our Hoodo Apartments Schools , Hospitals and Madarasas are nearby

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infor: hoodoapartments.com/unitsforsale.html

http://www.eastleighmall.com/amenities.htm

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More Easleigh Properties: Hotels & Guest Houses
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:cheers:Trying to upload pictures here, but this windows 7 is quite troublesome to work with. Any ideas? May as well go back to windows xp!

:cheers:Trying to upload pictures here, but this windows 7 is quite troublesome to work with. Any ideas? May as well go back to windows xp!

^^karibu kwa forum:)

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More Business: Amal Plaza
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:cheers:Trying to upload pictures here, but this windows 7 is quite troublesome to work with. Any ideas? May as well go back to windows xp!

I do not have the ver 7 of Windows yet, But with the XP Experience you can use the edit commands(Copy, Cut, Paste) found on the Right Mouse Button(If Default is Left) or follow step by step procedure of using the Menu bar of selected explorer or image management software. Bar.:dizzy:

Have you posted pictures here before, using XP? If so, I do not see how Windows 7 would make it any different. All you have to do is post the right URL using the right languange: url here

:cheers:Trying to upload pictures here, but this windows 7 is quite troublesome to work with. Any ideas? May as well go back to windows xp!

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OTHER TAJ PROPERTIES
Small Pics

TAJ Gardens
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TAJ Millenium
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TAJ Villas
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TAJ View Apts & Villas
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TAJ VILLAGE -EMBAKASI
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OTHERS (GENERAL) BIG PICS
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KBSACCO Housing | Embakassi
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Easteigh -Eastlands U|C
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^^
That was years ago! I almost forgot how Mombasa road used to look like.

^^
That was years ago! I almost forgot how Mombasa road used to look like.

Despite the bickering, this gvernment has done unimaginable things in as far as Infrasructure(Road, Tele-Communication) is concerned.

Hope the future can only be bright. On a different note Eastleigh's road infrastructure is one of the most needy Mr. Mayor!!

METRO FAIRVIEW APARTMENTS

Details:

Location
Metro Fairview Apartment Development is located within Pangani shopping center ,only 5 Minutes drive to the Nairobi central business district and is served by 24 hrs public transport system. Security around this area is very good due to presence of major police base and security presence .General infrastrure for roads, electricity and water supply is well developed.

The project
Metro Fairview apartments development comprise of 120 two bed roomed apartments, 40 three bedrooms apartments, 14 shops and I restaurant.

The development has been planned with a passion of providing high quality development utilizing first rate materials, skilled craftsmanship and technical precision. Each apartment is fitted with modern, staylish fittings creating an environment of pleasant lifestyle with an exceptionally appealing invitation to stay as homeowner or for tenancy investment purpose.

Features:

Architecturally well planned and oriented.
2 elevators for 13 passengers each.
Fresh Water bore hole for stable water supply.
Power back up generator -5 kva for stable power supply.
Ample parking
Intercom, closed circuit TV for 24 hours security surveillance and patrolling.
Internet and dstv connection
Only 5 minutes drive to city center and almost direct access to Thika road.

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METRO FAIRVIEW APARTMENTS RENDERS

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http://www.sebestates.com

JANNAH VILLAS -EASTLEIGH
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Executive 5 bedroomed spacious all ensuite villas.
Price:KES 20,000,000.00

Jannah Villas Interiors
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OL' BURUBURU
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Jogoo Rd. -HOTEL
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Outering Rd.
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NAIVAS SUPERMARKET
Jogoo Road/Outer Ring Roundabout

(Hazzy Pictures)
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I know there are some plans for infrastructure developments in Eastleigh, but i was wondering if anyone has any updated pictures of those developments, it would be great...
by the way this is what the government has in plan

(sorry if i re posted it)

http://www.nairobicity.go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=113

I know there are some plans for infrastructure developments in Eastleigh, but i was wondering if anyone has any updated pictures of those developments, it would be great...
by the way this is what the government has in plan

(sorry if i re posted it)

http://www.nairobicity.go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=113

I know they are rezoning Eastleigh into a commercial district. Hopefully, those roads will be repaired with time.

Buruburu.

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Buruburu.

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The area looks well built-up. ^^ I remember Before Westlands and Upperhill ('elite shopping surburbs') there was Buruburu..

OLE SERENI

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edt

^^
Shouldn't Ole Sereni fall under MSA road? I guess in My mind, Eastlands is made up of Eastleigh, Donholm, Komarock, Embakasi, Buruburu, Jacaranda, Pipeline etc.

^^
Shouldn't Ole Sereni fall under MSA road? I guess in My mind, Eastlands is made up of Eastleigh, Donholm, Komarock, Embakasi, Buruburu, Jacaranda, Pipeline etc.

^^true we have already posted under the Mombasa road thread :)

Such as Nostalgic thread.

Apartments Under development off - Jogoo Rd Nairobi

A new concept of student housing of equal standards with first-world University facilities is due to break ground shortly.

The concept "Student Village"

The concept envisaged here is a built up exclusive students accommodation village on approximately, minimum two acres of land which should be a walking distance from the main university compound.

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SUMMARY

The concept of a student village is "hinged" around the idea that it will be a place where students will be "home away from home". It seeks to provide a clean, conducive and secure environment for living and learning to the student during his/her entire course work on campus.Through a well thought out and comprehensive design of the proposed physical facilities and modification of the existing landscape, the design seeks to address the student's learning and living needs on campus.

This concept seeks to be the first of its kind in the region geared towards improving student accommodation. The intention will be to promote and replicate this in other public &/or private universities in Kenya, and thereafter through-out the East African Community states.

View of Ladies' Hostel
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http://www.themis.co.ke/apartments.html

OLE SERENI

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whoa!!! the inside of ole sereni is just right!!!

does any one know if they have plans to keep places like dandora,kibera etc clean as downtown nairobi? that heap of garbage in the mtaas is a shame to a city with glassy skyscrappers.the mtaas are growing so fast and far away from city hall and i think its time that all mtaas had their own mayors or assistant mayors who shall be under the nairobi mayor. i think this will make planning and service delivery much easier.

anybody have any updates on the roads of eastleigh? because to me it seems as if they are ignoring that commercial district, which is unfortunate because it would only do good for kenya...

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That's Le' Grande. Good one Maasai.^^

Eastlands

Buruburu to the left and Umoja (the high density area) to the right.

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By Griffin Art Gallery, Flickr.

Eastlands

Buruburu to the left and Umoja (the high density area) to the right.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5064/5655137482_2fb5d30750_b.jpg

By Griffin Art Gallery, Flickr.

Damn! Real Estate is truly a big business in Kenya.

Damn! Real Estate is truly a big business in Kenya.

totally agree, :bow:

Interesting Citizen TV video on the growth of Buru Buru area.

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http://garissacity.blogspot.com

http://www.upiu.com/story/img/d/e/1274556124985/se/sv/f/8121278185125/Somali-refugees-transform-Nairobi-slumimg_1.jpg

WOW,impressive.I feel bad now that i quickly hop in & out of nrb but haven't been to eastleigh or westlands since '95.

OPEN PLAZA - EASTLEIGH 1st Avenue

U/C Year : 2010

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Client : Open Kenya Limited

Description : Construction and completion of mixed use building on 1st Avenue Eastleigh

Scope of Work :

•Concept and brief development
•Design coordination
•Assembly of project team
•Tendering and award
•Management of construction
•Finance procurement
•Coordination of sales
Status : Project ongoing, ground breaking programmed for Q3 2010
Source: http://www.apolloprojects.co.ke/category/open-plaza/

WOW,impressive.I feel bad now that i quickly hop in & out of nrb but haven't been to eastleigh or westlands since '95.

The face of Eastleigh has changed very rapidly in the recent years with very decent structures taking over from trad' bazaars of the 90's that used to dot the area. It should make for an interesting shopping center for sure.^^

GRAND ROYAL HOTEL - Eastleigh

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www.somalinet.com

GRAND ROYAL HOTEL - Eastleigh

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www.somalinet.com

WOAH!!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!!!!!!!

sorry for quoting the pics.

WOAH!!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!!!!!!!

sorry for quoting the pics.

Eastleigh is fast becoming a metro area, this latest addition just reiterates the fact. Problem is that the residential areas in the proximity will fast disappear and the price hikes will be out of reach for many people.