Sod-turning ceremony marks the start of City Lodge development
WATERFALL - Atterbury property group and City Lodge held a sod-turning ceremony to mark the start of the construction of a new City Lodge hotel at Waterfall City.
The City Lodge at Waterfall City will be hotel number 56 for the hotel chain.
The development is going to cost around R130 million, R40 million of which will be spent on furniture, fittings and equipment for the hotel.
The chairperson of the City Lodge hotel group, Bulelani Ngcuka excitedly explained that the development of the proposed 150-room hotel will require 400 workers and once the hotel is up and running it will employ over 60 people as permanent staff.
He also pointed out that this was City Lodge’s first new development in South Africa since 2010 and that City Lodge is the first hotel chain to start development in Waterfall City.
Waterfall City, one of biggest multi-use property developments in Africa, is being developed around the proposed 120 000 square metre Mall of Africa which is due to commence trading by 2016.
Clifford Ross, chief executive of the City Lodge hotel group said, “We’re excited about our new development particularly because we believe there is a great future for Waterfall City. The area will be an important new development node linking Midrand to all of northern Johannesburg.”
