LAGOS (Nigeria) | Eko Atlantic City | Masterplan

[Matthias Offodile]

Kulani, thanks for sending me/us a brief summary of your trip!

[jamesd3g]

Originally Posted by zexyworm

Fellow architect, thank you for your effort at grasping the madness that is Lagos and for proposing some intriguing solutions. By any chance, is there a possibility of seeing some illustrations, diagrams, and plans to back-up your ideas?

As I'm sure you would agree, visual aids could be very helpful in backing up your ideas....

ok then... ill put up a large plan.

[Nixoderm]

I remember a while back Matt was challenging the credibility of this project. Well, i hope this site www.ekoatlanticcity.com would be a great help.

[pappy]

Originally Posted by Nixoderm

I remember a while back Matt was challenging the credibility of this project. Well, i hope this site www.ekoatlanticcity.com would be a great help.

There's nothing there. What the heck?

[Nixoderm]

I was just making a point that they have a site so the project is a not hoax.

[sammyjay77]

Originally Posted by Nixoderm

I was just making a point that they have a site so the project is a hoax.

The project is not a Hoax and should not be adjudged so. They have even gone as far as registering a website of which the website may be under construction.

So many of you guys are pessimists

[Nixoderm]

Official luanch this month, arggh can't wait!!

[Tbite]

Launch of the Website?

[Lagbuja]

Wow! What an excellent project, but anyone can draw a pretty picture!

I want to know dates, when is construction going to start? has it started already? Is this plan realistic?

If this plan is under construction, when about will it be finished?

[sammyjay77]

820 hectares Lagos ‘Atlantic City’ rises from reclaimed Bar Beach

Succour may be coming the way of investors and business organisations faced with the shortage of land on Victoria Island as Lagos plans to reclaim over 820 hectares from the Atlantic Ocean.

The land is for the development of what is proposed the next generation of property in Africa.
The multi-billion naira development to be known as “ Eko Atlantic City” will combine residential, commercial, financial and tourist accommodation in a location to be serviced by a state-of-art, high-tech infrastructure.
Business Day learnt last night that the nation’s leading financial institutions are jostling for a share of the pie via project financing.
And the growing band of the rich in the city are hoping to be the landlords of what will easily become Africa’s most attractive pieces of property.
The project, which will be bigger than the current size of Victoria Island, is to be developed by the Chagoury Group, one of West Africa’s leading construction firms under the public-private-partnership (PPP), an initiative that is fast gaining ground in this part of the world.
The development would incorporate central waterway of 30- metre wide to provide water transport facilities connecting the marinas.
Other facilities will include an international standard road network, surface drainage, dedicated electrical power generation plant with underground distribution, water supply, treatment and distribution mains, sewage collection mains with a modern treatment plant, a network of service ducts to provide IT services as well as post- construction maintenance and management facilities.
Lagos State commissioner for waterfront and infrastructure development Segun Oniru told Business Day that the overall concept of the Atlantic City is to restore the land lost to coastal erosion since 1905 as well as provide permanent solution to the erosion.
The development, according to Oniru, targets over 25,000 residents, and 200,000 commuters flowing daily to the Island to work. “All- in –all, this does not represent more than 3 percent of Lagos’s current population,” Oniru said.
He explained that the land for the development of the city would be reclaimed in a seabed dredging from the Atlantic Ocean in an environment-friendly process without leaving an impact on the marine life.
“The overall area to be reclaimed is 820 hectares or 8,200,000 square metres. The total length of the development is 6,500 metres and on average 1,260 metres wide. To the western boundary of the development is existing east mole constructed between 1905 and 1908 to protect the Lagos harbour entrance. To the east boundary is a revetment of 920 metres in length and incorporates a large Marina with access to the sea.
The north boundary is the existing Victoria Island and more specifically the existing Ahmadu Bello Way highway, which is planned to be extended to eight-lane highways known as coastal road under proposed government planning,” he said.
“In the past couple of years, this land was lost to the Atlantic Ocean due to the slow erosion of Lagos beaches by the ocean. The proposed design would include protective breakwaters on its outer perimeter to provide shelter from the ocean waters.”
The breakwater, the commissioner added, would be designed as a submerged and immerged wall utilising advanced x-blocks and enormous x-shaped concrete blocks designed to dissipate the energy of waves.

[sammyjay77]

Eko Atlantic:Periscoping Africa's next property generation

Recently, Lagos State government commissioned the redevelopment of the $3 billion Eko Atlantic city project, signaling the beginning of a journey into the next generation of property development not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa.
Eko Atlantic city, targeted to be completed by 2015, is an ambitious project that the Lagos State government is determinedto use to boost its economic profile and also as part of the mega city dream wherein the state, by 2015, will be the third largest megacity in the world.
Adjacent to Victoria Island, Eko Atlantic will rise as the next generation of property in Africa. The city will combine both residential and commercial accommodation in a location to be serviced by state-of-the-art, high-tech infrastructure. When completed, Eko Atlantic is expected to be larger than Victoria Island and is targeting 250,000 residents.
Lagos State, though one of the smallest states in Nigeria, land mass wise, has the largest human and industrial concentration in the country. With an expanding population of 15 million people, Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria, the second largest in Africa, and the sixth largest in the world. It is expected that by 2015, the population of the state will be 25 million, thus qualifying it as the third largest megacity in the world.
The state harbours the head offices of the largest international companies that are based in Nigeria. All Nigeria's leading financial, oil and gas, and telecom companies as well as the Nigerian Stock Exchange are located in Lagos.
The land for the Eko Atlantic project, according to the developers, South Energyx Nigeria Limited, will be reclaimed, up to 820 hectares, by dredging from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in an environmental friendly process.
In a brief chat with Business Day at its beautiful stand at Eko Hotels & Suites, venue of the 4th Lagos Economic Summit on April 23, officials of the Eko Atlantic Development Company said Eko Atlantic was set to be the heart of tomorrow's Lagos.
"Consider it the Dubai of Africa---a lively, 'happening' metropolis, cosmopolitan and culturally diverse, a melting pot for enterprise and exchange. The project will enable Lagos to compete, on every level, with some of the world's top business and tourism capitals", they said.
According to them, with its offering of premium corporate, retail and financial space and its potential as a high-end hospitality resort with a prime seaside location, Eko Atlantic would be a magnet for multinationals and foreign/local investors whose presence would multiply job and partnership opportunities, adding that tenants and businesses would have the security of knowing they reside in one of Africa's newest, most ambitious, and most autonomous urban centres.
Property development watchers say it only resides in the imagination the volume of construction that prime location in Lagos is bound to witness in the coming months and years.
According to them, it is to be expected that for a city that promises to be 'an autonomous urban centre', building patterns and architectural designs that will dot developments there might demystify the property development wonders of Dubai.
"Contemporary lifestyle facilities, from world-class shopping malls and restaurants to hotels and a vibrant nightlife, will conspire to create the good life at Eko Atlantic. The district will have all the benefits of any large thriving city plus the advantage of year-round sunshine and a coastline with endless beaches. A privileged, quality lifestyle is guaranteed", the developers disclosed.
Another high point of the project, according to the developers, is the relief it is going to bring in the burden of both commercial and residential property shortage which has already put Victoria Island in a strait and under pressure.
Victoria Island which was initially a residential area is now Lagos main business and financial centre, and in the last 20 years, the island has rapidly expanded, becoming not only the country's busiest banking and commerce hub, but also the most exclusive areas to live.
Today, the area is saturated in terms of transportation and land available for new development. There is also a huge shortage of hotel and accommodation capacity. This, among other reasons, makes the idea of Eko Atlantic worth the while. Land has to be reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean to create valuable land to work in and enjoy.

[sammyjay77]

Microsoft, Sumitomo plan growth investments in Nigeria

Microsoft, the world’s biggest software maker, and Sumitomo Chemical have unveiled plans to help boost economic growth in Nigeria.
The plans were unfolded yesterday in London at the Business Call to Action forum that pulled together chief executives of major global business concerns.
Microsoft announced plans to open a new innovation centre to help thousands of students develop skills and hundreds of small technology companies get started and grow.
Sumitomo’s plan is to create a new production facility for anti-malaria bed nets which will create up to 5,000 new jobs in Nigeria.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Kemal Dervis, and UK secretary of state for international development Douglas Alexander attended the Business Call to Action event with more than 80 global business leaders where innovative and creative initiatives to reduce poverty in the developing world were showcased.
The Business Call to Action event highlighted initiatives by more than a dozen global companies, including Citi Group, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Sumitomo Chemical, and Vodafone – with a view to inspiring others to do the same.
Over the next five years, the initiatives are expected to create thousands of jobs and potentially improve the lives of millions of poor people across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
They are part of a concerted push to meet the Millennium Development Goals that will enable poor people to access up to the minute information, money and business expertise as well as creating new businesses and employment opportunities.
President John Kufuor of Ghana and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda also attended the event.
Douglas Alexander said: “Although we are over halfway towards the MDG target date of 2015, we are not halfway to meeting the MDGs.
It is time to take concerted action to save lives and business has a key role to play in the push against poverty. Long term economic growth is vital to the fight against global poverty and business investment is vital to building economic growth.
“Africa and other parts of the developing world offer a wealth of business opportunities that make real commercial sense.
“I am hopeful that after today’s event businesses will be inspired to make concrete commitments and to speed up action they have already planned.
“These commitments could have a life changing impact on literally millions of poor people.”
At the UN in July 2007, the Prime Minister Brown had made a Call to Action to governments, businesses, NGOs and faith groups to focus resources and effort on delivering the MDGs by 2015, recognising that without a collective effort the goals would not be met.
Some of the world’s leading companies signed up to the Call to Action, and this event is the next step in that process.
According to Kemal Dervis, UNDP’s dministrator, “in the race to achieve the MDGs, one of the greatest untapped resources is the private sector. Businesses are engines of growth and sustainable development.
Innovative business leaders, both in the North and the South, are changing the way that many businesses operate. They are expanding beyond traditional business practices, to also focus on the needs of those locked out of the global market, bringing them in as partners in growth and wealth creation. Such creative approaches and partnerships are essential in catalysing vibrant new markets that can contribute to advancing inclusive growth and development. The Business Call to Action is not a one off event, but a commitment to speed up progress on the MDGs, to create a prosperous world for all, Dervis said.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will convene, in September, a high-level meeting on the MDGs, bringing together world leaders, civil society and the private sector to help translate existing commitments into action and bolster the global partnership for development.
The Microsoft initiative will be rolled out to Rwanda, Nigeria and Morocco as well as Uganda. Microsoft is partnering with the local government, educational institutions and businesses to provide software development assistance, business skills training, employment training and market incubation support for entrepreneurs and local start-ups.
In announcing the initiative, Microsoft International CEO Jean-Phillippe Curtois said:
“Investment in Africa’s innovation infrastructure is key to spurring development, jobs and growth, all of which help advance the Millennium Development Goals. As a global technology leader, Microsoft is dedicated to helping individuals and communities around the globe achieve their goals and dreams through relevant, accessible and affordable technologies. Through these four new initiatives, we are delighted to partner with the next generation of African innovators and entrepreneurs.”
Sumitomo Chemical intends to expand local production and distribution across West Africa of long-lasting malaria mosquito nets which will generate over 5,000 new jobs and has the potential to save 400,000 lives over the next five years through making these insecticidal bed nets more widely and cost-effectively available.
In announcing Sumitomo Chemical’s initiative President Hiromasa Yonekura said:
“We will also explore the possibility of opening sewing and logistical facilities in neighbouring countries. We feel very lucky that we can do business while also helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.”
The Business Call to Action challenges companies to use their core business – whether it be manufacturing, finance, telecommunications – in a way that contributes both to the MDGs, and to their commercial success. It aims to inspire CEOs and companies to realise that reducing poverty also makes good business sense. By building a safer and more prosperous world, businesses are securing future commercial success.
Just over seven years ago, 189 world leaders endorsed the MDGs. The goals represent a global partnership to promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases. More than halfway to the target year, the MDG track record is mixed. Considerable progress is being made, but many countries are falling behind, with sub-Saharan Africa most at risk. The region is not on track to meet a single MDG by 2015.

[Buyckske Ruben]

Monday, April 28, 2008

$3b Eko Atlantic City project targets 2015 completion date.
By Tunde Alao

THE ambitious $3 billion redevelopment scheme seeking to transform the troubled Lagos beachfront into a comprehensive tourism and commercial facility - which was formally launched with fanfare last week - has been given a 2015 completion deadline.

The Eko Atlantic City Project (EACP),' as the project has been labelled, will involve the reclamation of some 820 hectares of land under a scheme targeted at restoring the tourism appeal of the famous Bar beach. The project was conceptualised under the administration of the immediate former governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

At the project launch in full international glare during the Ehingbeti development summit last week, Mr. David Frame, managing director of South Energy X (Limited), the project contractor, assured that given the commitment of the state government to the project, it is expected to be completed within even years by year 2015.

The state governor, while unveiling the project last week, anticipated "enormous social and economic benefits after the completion of the project," explaining that the general concept is the provision of the needed amenities that will enhance the tourism attraction and relaxation opportunities to both the local and international clients.

Infrastructure work will involve initially, restoration of coastline lost to coastal erosion since 1905 and provision of a permanent solution to the menace through "a robust sea wall or revelment along the newly re-constituted coastline".

The overall area to be reclaimed involves a length of 6.500 metres, and on average width of 1,260 metres.

The western boundary of the development will stretch from the existing mole constructed between 1905 and 1908 to protect the entrance to the Lagos Harbour, to incorporate a large portion of the Marina with access to the sea.

However, a major re-development component will be on the northern boundary on Victoria Island, where the major Ahmadu Bello Way is to be widened to an eight-lane highway to be known as "Coastal Road."

Developments envisaged in the EACP include family entertainment centres, water based entertainment and boat club, upscale commercial opportunities, offices, retail and residential properties, office parks, conference, event and exhibition facilities. Others are shopping malls, beach and recreational park development, hotels, guest houses, club houses and resorts.

"In view of the quality of services planned for the Eko Atlantic City project, there is to be provided state-of-the-art top grade infrastructure, comparable with any of such project in the world," said Fashola, who sought the assistance of both the Federal Government and the private sector in the development projects lined up by his administration.

To be incorporated into the Atlantic City project are a 30 metres wide central waterway, which will provide water transport facility connecting the marina, as well as an international standard electrical power generation plant with underground distribution.

Also to be provided are water supply treatment and distribution mains, sewage collection mains leading to a modern treatment plants, a network of service ducts to provide IT services and post construction maintenance and management facilities.

The governor urged institutional investors, real estate developers, both local and foreign, multinationals, corporate organisations and the public to avail themselves of the opportunity to invest in the project.

Fashola described the development of Eko Atlantic City as "a classical example of the state government's policy thrust of fast-tracking infrastructural development of the state through public private partnership (PPP). This is what gave birth to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and working relationship between the state government and the sponsor and promoter of Eko Atlantic City project, Energyx Nigeria Limited."

He added: "Our consultants and partners have demonstrated their technical and engineering competence by using local capacity and contractors, Messrs. Hitech Construction Company Limited to complete the first phase of the project, which was the Sea Defense Wall that protected Lagos from flooding last year when she experienced the highest rainfall ever in 25 years."

Source: The Gaurdian Newspaper

[Buyckske Ruben]

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Lagos to lay foundation of Eko Atlantic City
By Akinpelu Dada


The Lagos State Government will later this month lay the foundation of the Eko Atlantic City. The project involves the reclamation of eight square metres of land from the Atlantic Ocean through seabed dredging in an environmental friendly process.

A statement from the Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Mrs. O. O. Rotimi, on Monday quoted the commissioner, Prince Adesegun Oniru, as disclosing this.

The Atlantic City, according to the statement, will combine residential, commercial, and financial and tourist accommodation in a location serviced by state-of-the-art high-tech infrastructure and is projected to be the next real estate hub in Africa.

Oniru reiterated that the development of the project would be handled by a private developer, Energyx BV, at no cost to the state government.

Among the many benefits of the project to the state, according to the commissioner is the creation of employment opportunities for not less than 50,000 people, while the sorting of approval by the developer will also generate income for the state government.

link: http://odili.net/news/source/2008/apr/15/418.html

[friendsofthecity]

NEW CITY ON THE ATLANTIC|LAGOS - NIGERIA|U/C

The proposed new-look Lagos will be a major highlight of THISDAY’s special international summit holding in New York, USA, on Monday, September 24, 2007. Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos will lead the drive for investment for his dream New Lagos, his pet project of developing Badagry and linking it to the rest of the state with a modern transportation system, provison of first-class infrastructure in the state, mass housing and tourism…The “New City on the Atlantic” which the Lagos State government is planning to develop is part of the Mega City Project. The Summit, with the theme “Nigeria Meets the World: Turning Challenges into Opportunities,” will, in addition to discussing the The Case for Lagos Mega City, will treat topical issues on Energy, Oil, Gas & The Niger Delta, Rebuilding Infrastru-cture, Deepening Financial Sector Reforms, Fighting Corruption, Ensuring Elec-toral & Democratic Reforms, and Climate Change: Why Nigeria Counts.

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NAME: Eko Atlantic City
LOCATION: Lekki - Lagos
USE: Community
STATUS:Propose
COST: 416.5 billion Naira (3.5 billion dollars)
CONTRACTOR: EnergyX limited

[sammyjay77]

Is this not the Lagos Energy City click here already under construction in Badagry or it's something new and different?

Rememeber lagos is constructing two new cities, that is Eko Atlantic City and Lagos energy city, the former wil be completed by 2015 and the latter between 2012 and 2015 as well.

[friendsofthecity]

The Energy City seems to careter for some group of people in the energy sector rather the New City On The Atlantic is more of incorporated into the mega city plan for Lagos. Lagos projects are not well named, if that is the case.Besides, the images and renderings are different.

[Nsukka]

They could of been a lil more creative with the names.

[Tbite]

Energy City is a bad name. Eko Atlantic City however is befitting; Historically, Geographically etc.

[sammyjay77]

Friends of the city...both developements are under construction...can you change the status of the project?

Cheers