Havelock City

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1 Project Overview
2 Developers of the project
3 Structural Details & Location
4 Image Gallery
5 External Links

[edit] Project Overview

Information
Havelock City
Computer generated image of the Havelock City Project.
Location	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Coordinates	6°52'56"N - 79°52'00"E
Status	Under construction
Groundbreaking	18 May 2004
Estimated completion	2010
Use	Residential & Commercial
Technical details
Floor count	22-29
Elevator count	16+
Cost	Over 5-Billion LKR
Developer	Mireka Capital Land (pvt) Ltd

The Havelock City Project will be one of the largest and most expensive residential and commercial real-estate development project that will be undertaken in Sri Lanka. The project will consist of nine individual towers:

Tower 1 - 22 floors (also called Park Tower, part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 2 - 22 floors (also called Elibank Tower, part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 3 - 22 floors (part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 4 - 22 floors (part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 5 - 27 floors (part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 6 - 27 floors (part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 7 - 29 floors (part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 8 - 29 floors (part of the "Residential Component")
Tower 9 - ?? floors (also called as the "Commercial Component")

The entire project will be separated into four (or five) different phases. The current phase (Phase-1) is now under construction, which consists of the Elibank & Park towers. Phase-1 is scheduled to complete, and open to public, in August 2008. Whereas the entire project is scheduled to be completed by 2010. Towers 1-to-8 is known as the Residential Component, whereas Tower-9 is known as the Commercial Component.

[edit] Developers of the project

Havelock City is being developed by Mireka Capital Land (pvt) Ltd, which is a joint venture between Overseas Reality (Ceylon) PLC (also known as ORCPLC), and Bank of Ceylon (also known as BoC), which is the largest bank in Sri Lanka. The board of directors, of Mireka Capital Land (pvt) Ltd, are as follows:

Mr. S. P. Tao (chairman)
Mr. H. Z. Cassim
Mrs. Mildred Tao Ong
Mr. Ajith M De S. Jayaratne
Mrs. Rohini L. Nanayakkara
Mr. Udayasiri Kariyawasam
Mr. S. N. P. Palihena
Mr. Ralph de Lanerolle

Mr. S. P. Tao is also the chairman of Shing Kwan Group of Singapore, which is the majority shareholder of ORCPLC. ORCPLC currently holds 60% of shares in the project, while BoC owns the remaining 40%.

[edit] Structural Details & Location

Havelock City is being constructed on a massive 19-acre land, which is the largest single-site clearing in the entire capital Colombo. Havelock is easily known as one of the largest and most prestigious residential projects ever taken-out in Asia-Pacific, it will also own one of the largest underground carparks in the continent; about the size of three rugger fields.

The Residential Component would consists 1,080 high-class apartments, whereas the Commercial Component would consist 200 rooms of serviced-apartments, and 300 rooms of business-class hotels. The project is also sometimes tagged as "Come home to the city" and "City within a City", as it will also consist some additional components which will make the project look like "an individual city". The project consists additional components such as:

A large shopping mall (with department stores)
A hypermarket
A multiplex cinema
And shops, cafés, restaurants, etc.

The following will be constructed/located on landscaped gardens which will be located on the rooftop of the above-listed components (which is grouped as the Mall):

A swimming pool
Health club (with gymnasium)
2 Tennis courts
Dining areas (for the Residential Component / Hotel)

Havelock City would consist additional recreational facilities such as:

Clubhouses with function-rooms and barbecue-pits
Free-form pleasure swimming pool with linked fun-pool
Children's playground
Cycling tracks
9-acre rainforest garden with cascading pools, lakes and water features
Bamboo pools
Boulder garden with waterfall

The residential component is shaped as a eight-piece numerical "8", which was designed for perfect sunlight and wind distribution across the entire area. Havelock City is located near the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Just next to the Kirulapana Canal, which leads to the shoreline at about a 1.12km distance.

Map showing the locations of all nine towers.

[edit] Image Gallery

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