Green light for Olympic Tennis Centre planning to commence
Planning for a new tennis centre including an Olympic standard arena has commenced and received conditional support at the Council level.
Tennis Western Province owns Erf 46115, Rondebosch which no longer meets its needs as a tennis facility.Since 1957 the property has had a servitude registered over it in favour of the City on account of a grant-in-aid from the city to help with capital improvements at the facility at the time. TWP has applied for the removal of the servitude to enable them to sell the property, and use the proceeds to lease a site within the south-western precinct of the Green Point Urban Park.
The site development plan for the redevelopment of the Green Point Common adopted by council and approved by the MEC in 2008 made provision for a provincial tennis facility which would meet the needs of TWP.
Further, the Director of Sports in Cape Town, has had constructive discussions with TWP about not only the new tennis facility but the development of tennis academies across the Metropolitan region.
TWP is presented by Dormell Properties, an agreement which was concluded in 2007 relating to the sale of the Rondebosch site and the relocation elsewhere.
The following needs to take place over a 2 year period
1. The planning exercise by the City of Cape Town for the portion of land between Green Point Main Road, Western boulevard and the greater Green Point Common Precinct e.g. transport modelling, public access, land uses etc.
2. A consent use process
3. A concurrent lease approval and public participation process
4. Confirmation that a further EIA would not be required and that the MEC's decision in 2008 will suffice.
5. Successful negotiation with current leaseholders who would be affected by the proposal and/or process to terminate existing leases.
6. Precinct wide implications of an international tennis centre at the site
7. A full development, business and operationa plan for the tennis centre including the cost of such a development
8. A risk analysis of the proposed development
9. The value of the land of the Rondebosch site Erf 46115
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Cape Town & Barcelona: A Marriage of Mutual Convenience
Host of last year’s World Economic Forum on Africa, Cape Town is widely viewed as one of Africa’s most entrepreneurial cities. Now that Barcelona and Cape Town have signed an economic exchange agreement, we look at the striking similarities between these two progressive cities.
Mission accomplished
One of the most exciting “two cities” agreements signed 4th July 2008 strengthens economic, cultural and sporting ties between the City of Cape Town, South Africa, and Europe’s centre of knowledge and innovation, Barcelona.
Following the successful spin-offs from Barcelona’s 1992 Olympic Games, the City of Cape Town and local development agency Barcelona Activa are cooperating on shared priorities including further developing the knowledge economy and supporting cultural industries.
Co-organised by Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the mission agreed to create Cape Town Activa – sharing Barcelona Activa’s experiences to help internationalise Cape Town businesses and project the city’s economic and social environment to the wider corporate world.
Olympic spin-offs
With the agreement’s foundation in place, Mansoor Mohamed, the City of Cape Town’s Executive Director of Economic, Social Development and Tourism led a delegation of Cape Town business leaders to the HIT Barcelona 2010 - World Innovation Summit last June “to set-up an entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cape Town on similar principles to those employed so successfully by the city of Barcelona.”
“With proper planning and foresight, Barcelona was able to accelerate its own development using the 1992 Olympic Games to enhance its global positioning”, Mohamed explains. “The Games’ benefits are still being felt today and it is widely accepted that Barcelona, through the Games, achieved ‘100 years development within ten years’. Entrepreneurship is a significant enabler of economic growth and job creation, and Barcelona has demonstrated proven ability in this area.”
The agreement spearheads progress on both cities’ priority economic sectors. Exchanging best public and private practices in entrepreneurial initiatives, business growth, human capital, employment, urban regeneration, higher education and city development strategies are all on the collaboration agenda, along with mutual knowledge exchanges to help organise institutional and trade missions, trade fairs, exhibitions, seminars, conferences, training courses, personnel exchanges, fact-finding visits and other informative and promotional activities.
“Cape Town is facing similar challenges to the ones faced by Barcelona just prior to the 1992 Olympics,” says Alderman Felicity Purchase, Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Development and Tourism. “These included the decline of their manufacturing sector, high unemployment and being reduced to ‘second city’ status after Madrid.”
According to Andrew Boraine, CEO of the Cape Town Partnership, “Barcelona has been successful in redeveloping an obsolete inner-city industrial area into an innovative district offering modern spaces for knowledge-based activities.”
Giving his overview of Cape Town’s current economy, Mohamed explains: “Cape Town is well-positioned as a globally competitive destination and as an excellent location to create a soft-landing spot for the rest of Africa. The economy has been quite resilient during the recession: consumer spending is holding up, and lots of Cape Town based outsourcing companies and global multinationals aligned to the world’s emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil are experiencing a good mix of business.”
WORLD CUP WONDERS
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup Football Tournament due to kick off in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July, all eyes will be on Cape Town Central City as it hosts what is described as possibly the single most important event in the Town’s history. The focal point is the newly-built 70,000 capacity Green Point Stadium, “one of the most artistic football venues in South Africa”, situated in a much sought-after area of the town, and one of the two semi-final World Cup venues.
Hand-in-hand with the fanfare of top level international football, Cape Town’s tourism offer will be on show. Can the Town use this global event to kick-start new tourism investment, and can it emulate the Cup’s regenerative impact to boost its tourism credentials?
Mohamed is in no doubt that it can. “A lot of work has gone into supporting the infrastructure base and that infrastructure further supports the development of new hotels. We have seen the recent opening of establishments such as the Taj and the Coral International Middle Eastern Group. We have upgraded lots of existing hotels as well, so we expect increased occupancy paying off investment in those hotels early in the World Cup.”
“But the most exciting part of the World Cup is going to happen after 2010 – that is in the next 10-15 years. We believe that if we get the World Cup right, this World Cup will prove to be the single most important event in the recent history of Cape Town and South Africa. There is potential for significant urban regeneration. There has always been a dampened pessimism about Africa; there will no longer be this pessimism. People will have faith that Africa can do something other than wars. It is very important to show our ability to deliver and illustrate our other competencies.”
Best practice urban regeneration
City of Cape Town’s strategy for leveraging the World Cup’s urban regeneration and development impact aims to induce a sense of citizenship so that people feel that they live and work in a great city, thereby building confidence, pride, accountability and perspective whilst simultaneously offering visitors a unique and authentic Cape Town experience.
To keep the wheels of industry turning, and citizens and tourists moving, the City of Cape Town is investing millions of Rand into its integrated rapid-transit system linking the West Coast to Cape Town’s central business district. Comprising a priority rail plan, bus rapid-transit system, improvements to conventional bus and minibus operations, cycle ways, bicycle parking, pedestrian and urban space upgrades, metered taxi integration and park-and-ride facilities, the first phase is due for completion this year. Mohamed cites transport as “the second biggest sectoral economy after services.”
Cultivating the knowledge economy and creative industries
Cape Town can learn valuable lessons from Barcelona’s position as a City of Knowledge with Barcelona City Council’s digital literacy campaign aimed at bringing new technologies within the reach of all its citizens.
The knowledge economy is a sector that Cape Town wants people to explore. Mohamed explains: “We want people to recognise the talent base that is sitting in Cape Town that can help them achieve their goals. We want more businesses to come and establish themselves here and make use of our unemployed youth who have lots of capability.”
“Our economy is made up predominantly of services, the single most important sector going forward. The call-centre industry, animation and creative industries – we are looking to benefit from these to create entrepreneurship.”
Emphasis is placed on Cape Town’s film industry which, Mohamed says: “From a destination marketing point of view as well as a tourism development and economic development point of view, if more and more people see local films set in Cape Town, they automatically become associated with it. Like Vicky Cristina Barcelona. We believe it would be strategic for us in many ways and we will continue to boost that industry.”
22@Barcelona is also a regeneration benchmark for Cape Town as it transforms 200 hectares of industrial land in Poblenou into an innovative modern district for the strategic concentration of intensive knowledge-based activities. One of Barcelona’s most important transformation projects and possibly Europe’s most ambitious; 180 million Euros of public infrastructure investment had already seen 1,441 firms established by December 2009 and more than 42,000 new workers in its five strategic sectors: media, ITC, MedTech, energy and design.
Cape Town Activa
Modelling itself on Barcelona Activa’s entrepreneurial initiatives, Cape Town Activa was recently launched to encourage innovation and entrepreneurism, and to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem. With a pool of local entrepreneurs, the programme also encourages foreign entrepreneurs as a catalyst for investment.
According to Mohamed, “Everyone in Africa who has an idea or growth business and wants access to entrepreneurship and innovation will know they can come to Cape Town because the entrepreneurship ecosystem here will be best developed. Whether it is legal support, business plan support or funding, they need to be comfortable that they can get access to that quite easily here. Our key focus is to develop our competence level locally - we are already the leader in Africa in terms of entrepreneurship - but we need to develop this competence by instilling confidence in the global entrepreneurship community.”
While the Accelerate Cape Town project supports big business, Mohamed emphasises the value of SMEs as an engine of growth and renewal. “This is a very important sector for our economy as the bulk of our small businesses employ 10 people or less. Big business is just as important but we encourage small business because, especially in the early stages, they require more government support. We will be putting in systems imported from Barcelona Activa so that we can use their methodologies for better business creation and growth.”
Eyes on the prize...
With many more economic and cultural bonds tying Cape Town and Barcelona – municipal markets, propagating green industries, hosting major international events, annual jazz festivals, city zoos and an upbeat pace of city life – businesses in both Cities are primed to see the fruits of further success.
As we toast South Africa as World Cup host, Mohamed concludes: “The single biggest sporting event is going to hit our shores very soon and we believe that it will be a catalyst for uniting people in the same way that the Rugby World Cup did in 1995 when Nelson Mandela took his tee-shirt and now the Invictus movie has been made. Sport has a very important link to the economy – this is a sport-hungry society.”
Will this be the single most important event in Cape Town’s history? Watch this space.
KEYS OF SUCCESS OF THE BARCELONA MODEL AND LESSONS FOR CAPE TOWN: SHARING CLOSE BUSINESS, CULTURAL AND SPORTING CONNECTIONS.
Host of last year’s World Economic Forum on Africa, Cape Town is widely viewed as one of Africa’s most entrepreneurial cities. Now that Barcelona and Cape Town have signed an economic exchange agreement, we look at the striking similarities between these two progressive cities. Mission accomplished
One of the most exciting “two cities” agreements signed 4th July 2008 strengthens economic, cultural and sporting ties between the City of Cape Town, South Africa, and Europe’s centre of knowledge and innovation, Barcelona.
Following the successful spin-offs from Barcelona’s 1992 Olympic Games, the City of Cape Town and local development agency Barcelona Activa are cooperating on shared priorities including further developing the knowledge economy and supporting cultural industries.
Co-organised by Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the mission agreed to create Cape Town Activa – sharing Barcelona Activa’s experiences to help internationalise Cape Town businesses and project the city’s economic and social environment to the wider corporate world.
Olympic spin-offs
With the agreement’s foundation in place, Mansoor Mohamed, the City of Cape Town’s Executive Director of Economic, Social Development and Tourism led a delegation of Cape Town business leaders to the HIT Barcelona 2010 - World Innovation Summit last June “to set-up an entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cape Town on similar principles to those employed so successfully by the city of Barcelona.”“With proper planning and foresight, Barcelona was able to accelerate its own development using the 1992 Olympic Games to enhance its global positioning”, Mohamed explains. “The Games’ benefits are still being felt today and it is widely accepted that Barcelona, through the Games, achieved ‘100 years development within ten years’. Entrepreneurship is a significant enabler of economic growth and job creation, and Barcelona has demonstrated proven ability in this area.”
The agreement spearheads progress on both cities’ priority economic sectors. Exchanging best public and private practices in entrepreneurial initiatives, business growth, human capital, employment, urban regeneration, higher education and city development strategies are all on the collaboration agenda, along with mutual knowledge exchanges to help organise institutional and trade missions, trade fairs, exhibitions, seminars, conferences, training courses, personnel exchanges, fact-finding visits and other informative and promotional activities.
“Cape Town is facing similar challenges to the ones faced by Barcelona just prior to the 1992 Olympics,” says Alderman Felicity Purchase, Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Development and Tourism. “These included the decline of their manufacturing sector, high unemployment and being reduced to ‘second city’ status after Madrid.”
According to Andrew Boraine, CEO of the Cape Town Partnership, “Barcelona has been successful in redeveloping an obsolete inner-city industrial area into an innovative district offering modern spaces for knowledge-based activities.”
Giving his overview of Cape Town’s current economy, Mohamed explains: “Cape Town is well-positioned as a globally competitive destination and as an excellent location to create a soft-landing spot for the rest of Africa. The economy has been quite resilient during the recession: consumer spending is holding up, and lots of Cape Town based outsourcing companies and global multinationals aligned to the world’s emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil are experiencing a good mix of business.”
WORLD CUP WONDERS
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup Football Tournament due to kick off in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July, all eyes will be on Cape Town Central City as it hosts what is described as possibly the single most important event in the Town’s history. The focal point is the newly-built 70,000 capacity Green Point Stadium, “one of the most artistic football venues in South Africa”, situated in a much sought-after area of the town, and one of the two semi-final World Cup venues.
Hand-in-hand with the fanfare of top level international football, Cape Town’s tourism offer will be on show. Can the Town use this global event to kick-start new tourism investment, and can it emulate the Cup’s regenerative impact to boost its tourism credentials?
Mohamed is in no doubt that it can. “A lot of work has gone into supporting the infrastructure base and that infrastructure further supports the development of new hotels. We have seen the recent opening of establishments such as the Taj and the Coral International Middle Eastern Group. We have upgraded lots of existing hotels as well, so we expect increased occupancy paying off investment in those hotels early in the World Cup.”
“But the most exciting part of the World Cup is going to happen after 2010 – that is in the next 10-15 years. We believe that if we get the World Cup right, this World Cup will prove to be the single most important event in the recent history of Cape Town and South Africa. There is potential for significant urban regeneration. There has always been a dampened pessimism about Africa; there will no longer be this pessimism. People will have faith that Africa can do something other than wars. It is very important to show our ability to deliver and illustrate our other competencies.”
Best practice urban regeneration
City of Cape Town’s strategy for leveraging the World Cup’s urban regeneration and development impact aims to induce a sense of citizenship so that people feel that they live and work in a great city, thereby building confidence, pride, accountability and perspective whilst simultaneously offering visitors a unique and authentic Cape Town experience.
To keep the wheels of industry turning, and citizens and tourists moving, the City of Cape Town is investing millions of Rand into its integrated rapid-transit system linking the West Coast to Cape Town’s central business district. Comprising a priority rail plan, bus rapid-transit system, improvements to conventional bus and minibus operations, cycle ways, bicycle parking, pedestrian and urban space upgrades, metered taxi integration and park-and-ride facilities, the first phase is due for completion this year. Mohamed cites transport as “the second biggest sectoral economy after services.”
Cultivating the knowledge economy and creative industries
Cape Town can learn valuable lessons from Barcelona’s position as a City of Knowledge with Barcelona City Council’s digital literacy campaign aimed at bringing new technologies within the reach of all its citizens.
The knowledge economy is a sector that Cape Town wants people to explore. Mohamed explains: “We want people to recognise the talent base that is sitting in Cape Town that can help them achieve their goals. We want more businesses to come and establish themselves here and make use of our unemployed youth who have lots of capability.”
“Our economy is made up predominantly of services, the single most important sector going forward. The call-centre industry, animation and creative industries – we are looking to benefit from these to create entrepreneurship.”
Emphasis is placed on Cape Town’s film industry which, Mohamed says: “From a destination marketing point of view as well as a tourism development and economic development point of view, if more and more people see local films set in Cape Town, they automatically become associated with it. Like Vicky Cristina Barcelona. We believe it would be strategic for us in many ways and we will continue to boost that industry.”
22@Barcelona is also a regeneration benchmark for Cape Town as it transforms 200 hectares of industrial land in Poblenou into an innovative modern district for the strategic concentration of intensive knowledge-based activities. One of Barcelona’s most important transformation projects and possibly Europe’s most ambitious; 180 million Euros of public infrastructure investment had already seen 1,441 firms established by December 2009 and more than 42,000 new workers in its five strategic sectors: media, ITC, MedTech, energy and design.
Cape Town Activa
Modelling itself on Barcelona Activa’s entrepreneurial initiatives, Cape Town Activa was recently launched to encourage innovation and entrepreneurism, and to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem. With a pool of local entrepreneurs, the programme also encourages foreign entrepreneurs as a catalyst for investment.
According to Mohamed, “Everyone in Africa who has an idea or growth business and wants access to entrepreneurship and innovation will know they can come to Cape Town because the entrepreneurship ecosystem here will be best developed. Whether it is legal support, business plan support or funding, they need to be comfortable that they can get access to that quite easily here. Our key focus is to develop our competence level locally - we are already the leader in Africa in terms of entrepreneurship - but we need to develop this competence by instilling confidence in the global entrepreneurship community.”
While the Accelerate Cape Town project supports big business, Mohamed emphasises the value of SMEs as an engine of growth and renewal. “This is a very important sector for our economy as the bulk of our small businesses employ 10 people or less. Big business is just as important but we encourage small business because, especially in the early stages, they require more government support. We will be putting in systems imported from Barcelona Activa so that we can use their methodologies for better business creation and growth.”
Eyes on the prize...
With many more economic and cultural bonds tying Cape Town and Barcelona – municipal markets, propagating green industries, hosting major international events, annual jazz festivals, city zoos and an upbeat pace of city life – businesses in both Cities are primed to see the fruits of further success.
As we toast South Africa as World Cup host, Mohamed concludes: “The single biggest sporting event is going to hit our shores very soon and we believe that it will be a catalyst for uniting people in the same way that the Rugby World Cup did in 1995 when Nelson Mandela took his tee-shirt and now the Invictus movie has been made. Sport has a very important link to the economy – this is a sport-hungry society.”
Will this be the single most important event in Cape Town’s history? Watch this space.
KEYS OF SUCCESS OF THE BARCELONA MODEL AND LESSONS FOR CAPE TOWN: SHARING CLOSE BUSINESS, CULTURAL AND SPORTING CONNECTIONS.
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Posted 30 August 2010 - 03:58 AM
Official Opening of Phillipi Stadium (World Cup Training Venue)
30 August 2010
SOURCE: Ministry of Transport and Public Works (Provincial Government of the Western Cape)
Minister Robin Carlisle will tomorrow officially open the upgraded Phillipi Stadium. Chipcor Construction (Pty) Ltd recently won the bid for the management of the stadium for 10 years. Under the lease agreement Chipcor will be responsible for the implementation of community football development initiatives, as well as maintaining the pitch and the physical infrastructure in and around the stadium.Chipcor will soon launch a football academy that will be based around the stadium. The company has bought Hanover Park Football Club as part of its strategy to make optimal use of the stadium. The team, which has now been renamed Chippa United, will participate in the Vodacom League and use the stadium for all its home games.
Philippi Stadium is situated in one of the more disadvantaged parts of Cape Town, but boasts the highest number of registered amateur players in the country. The stadium is well-located near the Philippi Railway Station and long distance bus terminus. It is easily accessible by public transport and geographically central in Cape Town. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup the venue served as an official Venue Specific Training Site. The Uruguay national team held their practice sessions at the stadium twice during the World Cup.
Philippi Stadium accommodates 3000 spectators. The site has been upgraded for R 54 million as part of the 2010 FIFA World Cup legacy by the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. Changing rooms with ablution facilities have been built. A media facility and operational area for security services were also built. These were necessary upgrades for the FIFA tournament, as well as useful legacy for post-World Cup use.
TIME: 14:30
DATE: Saturday, 28 August 2010
VENUE: Phillipi Stadium, Phillipi
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Posted 30 August 2010 - 04:13 AM
Mo, does Cape Town 2020 have some logo, even an unofficial one (made by fans)?
I want to add it to my signature here in GB Forums.
Thx
I want to add it to my signature here in GB Forums.
Thx
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Posted 30 August 2010 - 05:09 PM
Mo Rush, on 30 August 2010 - 05:09 AM, said:
Did you post a image, Mo, it doesn't appear to me.
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Edited by Mo Rush, 30 August 2010 - 05:13 PM.
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Mo Rush, on 30 August 2010 - 05:12 PM, said:
Thx, Mo!!! I've just added the logo to my signature. Now fingers crossed!
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I have to say I'm not yet keen on Cape Town 2020 yet but I LOVE THAT LOGO!
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Agreed that logo is awesome.
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