The capital city of Malawi is about to wear a new face as construction of a K75 billion Business Park is expected to start next week in Lilongwe.
According to Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (MITC), the Lilongwe Grand Business Park project is one of the outcomes of the first ever Malawi Investment Forum (MFI) which the government of Malawi hosted in 2015.
President Arthur Peter Mutharika will preside over the ground breaking ceremony for the project on November 22.
The project which is estimated to cost USD 100 million (75 billion Malawi kwacha) will have three phases and is expected to be completed in five years.
According to a press release signed by MITC public relations manager Deliby Chimbalu, the project which is located in area 46 along the by-pass comprises of 20 hectares of integrated mall and hotel development and it is being promoted by China-Lilongwe Grand Holding Corporation Limited Company which was registered in August 2015.
“We are pleased to inform the public that all the processes regarding implementation of the Lilongwe Grand Business Park Project have been finalised and a ground breaking ceremony has been arranged on the 22nd of November this year,” said Chimbalu.
She added that the park which aims at providing business facilities under one roof will be comprised of; shopping mall, high class office building, Villas with supporting facilities such as five star hotel and conference centre.
“The project has been designed in a way that people dealing in commercial activities will find basically everything under one roof. Talk of building materials, decoration materials, furniture, clothing boutiques, cars and autoparts sales, electrical appliances, banking facilities and on top of that the park will have wide internet coverage,” Chimbalu added.
MITC stresses that the investment is estimated to create 1500 jobs and 2000 indirect jobs for the local Malawians.
Ife tikufuna Kaye magetsi osati office park
Going to be a very dark place with no power. How about a really stupid idea…..Build a Frikn POWER STATION !
Where is the Mangochi project?
Woman on the driving seat
Consider a similar development in zomba as well ,
without electricity! where? where? where? I have never seen or heard any country developing without electricity. can somebody please teach the government that if electricity problem is rectified, development will just be automatic.
U can’t be serious MW govt…. why not fix these bloody blackouts first aaaaah
in other words we can call it a shopping MALL, wright?
Za magesi zisiyeni akuziwa chochita limeneli ndi boma
Why can’t you focus about electricity first mzerutu yavuta apa
Atokhala ine zindikhuza nawo?
Mwayamba mochedwa zinthuzi komaso mumulore Simbi Phiri uja kut amange zake zija
nde cmubapo pamenepa mungozisyasiya ndalamazo?????
Please include an international and national bus terminals…Lilongwe bus depot leave much to be desirable
International bus terminal please.
Where they gonna take electricity to use that park ?
Half of the money will go into peoples pockets
Dont show your stupidity idiot. This is not a public project. It is private sector inniciative so how will people in politics ‘eat the money’??
How sir? You mean the investors will be stealing their own money?
Malawian Leaders think that all Sky Scappers in the US were built by govt NO Its because MONOPOLY doesnt exist#GivePeopleAChanceThenWe’llDevelop
Whether magetso alipo olo palibe life has to move on so is development
Show us a plan please!
Yap. If they can just show us a sketch of how it will look like.
Where will you get the construction cement which is currently Ltd on the market?
Za ziii bwnj osakonza kaye magetsi business park yo muzidzaunikira nyali pansana panu anthu akuba inu
Iwe mwana opusa. Kodi aliyense asiye ma plan ake kuti azidandaula za magetsi. Kupanda school tu kumeneko. Iyi ndi company ya private ndiye isiye ma plan ake basi kumaganiza za magetsi??? Kumakhalako ozindikira???
hahaaa I can smell cats and rats over there
Ok, tidzimva zimene.
Sam Smith Silumbu