Johannesburg — The Cape Town Partnership is planning an "e-city" hub in the eastern part of the central business district (CBD) along the lines of New York's Greenwich Village, combining business space suited to e-commerce with residential and retail development.
The partnership, a not-for-profit public-private joint venture which also runs the central city improvement district that has sharply reduced "crime and grime" in the inner city, estimates that it will cost about R115m to buy the 10 buildings clustered between Roeland Street and the Cape Technikon that have been earmarked to form the e-city niche.
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