Cape Town is on the brink of an exciting new phase of its history with much discussion and research under way on how best to turn it into an Aerotropolis city that can bring economic and social benefits to the people of the region.
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A pilot project to deploy a team of specially trained law enforcement officers to the Philippi East area was launched at the Philippi Business Retention and Expansion summit hosted by PEDI on 17 April.
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Planners from a range of departments from the City of Cape Town gathered at Philippi Village to hear from researchers about the key services that Philippi needs to be able to grow.
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Work has started in Stock Road to prepare for the expansion of the MyCiTi public transport network, with contractor Martin & East having begun grading and clearing work.
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There are several parts of Cape Town where communities share a dream of transforming their bleak and broken horizons to clean, landscaped and welcoming residential and business zones. There are a series of catalysts that can fundamentally alter the trajectory of their story, but finding the right keys in the face of the entrenched inheritance of disadvantage is dauntingly difficult, often seemingly impossible.
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A major Provincial Government investment of R610m will see the transformation of the N2/Borcherd's Quarry interchange – a project that will fundamentally change the way that Philippi fits into the economy of the City of Cape Town.
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Out of the ruins of a derelict cement factory in the heart of one of Cape Town’s poorest suburbs, an astonishing hub of enterprise and activity is rising. Philippi Village has ambitions to change the way local business in the area is conducted, offering the kind of A-grade office environment you might expect in the buzz of Cape Town’s trendier urban spaces.
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The reimagining of Philippi East, a blighted suburb of Cape Town that has struggled to shake off the yoke thrust upon it by Apartheid’s economic design, is one step closer to possibility as authorities prepare to break ground on the first of a series of catalytic infrastructure projects that hold the promise of radical change.
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