If you have visited Colombo you would have noticed the lakes in the city and network of canals. There are two major lakes in the city center called Beira Lake and Little Beira Lake. These two lakes are linked together and fed by canals and waterways that criss-cross the city. They used to be dirty and still mostly are. However there's good news. Now their is a huge masterplan underway to build bunds and walkways and leanear parks around them and along the canals. Then clean the canals and have ferries and eco tourism.
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The Colombo Beira Lake development under the Megapolis ministry is much bigger than cleaning a city lake and building a embankment with a linear park. The Beira Lake development is a major masterplan for Colombo. It is already having huge impact on the city as big or even bigger than the Colombo Port City. As indicated in the second slide below many projects discussed in this forum like the Shangri La, Cinnamon Life, Altair etc. are part of this Beira Lake development master plan project.
Above slides were shared by Ragnarok123 few weeks back in the Colombo Megapolis thread here:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=144086189#post144086189
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The Colombo Beira Lake development under the Megapolis ministry is much bigger than cleaning a city lake and building a embankment with a linear park. The Beira Lake development is a major masterplan for Colombo. It is already having huge impact on the city as big or even bigger than the Colombo Port City. As indicated in the second slide below many projects discussed in this forum like the Shangri La, Cinnamon Life, Altair etc. are part of this Beira Lake development master plan project.
Above slides were shared by Ragnarok123 few weeks back in the Colombo Megapolis thread here:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=144086189#post144086189