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The land selling craze that peaked before the launch of the project by Kibaki is no more apart from people who bought plots now praying to find buyers at half the price they acquired them.

“A land owner who bought seven acres of land near Mombasa Road for Sh8 million two years ago is now offering it for sale at between Sh2.5 million to Sh3 million.

Mutiso is so worried that property prices are depreciating sharply and believes they will continue to plummet unless new hope is infused into the area.


Read more at: http://www.standardmedia...one-year-later?pageNo=4

@a4arch,
I followed your arguments on this project and I agree 100 pc..

someone bought 7acres @ 15Million problem he's still within the 10km and actually within the 2km green zone if anything ever happens there he still has to live with the nightmare of his land being compulsorily acquired by the govt. as per the govt an acre there is still valued at less than 300K. hopefully people are not rushing to buy near mutuas city because that might just be another konza.

Meanwhile:


Do a quick search on Carnegie Melon Uni

The sad part about Konza s that despite critisizing the project, Govt still went ahead and used our tax money to acquire the land and pay hefty fees to international lawyers,architects, engineers and town planners.

So all kenyan tax payers are loosers in the konza project as a country.
The money should have been used to fund ICT innovation at uon or JKUCAT so as to benefit tax payers .

Unfortunately bw. a4architect.com most of the govt projects on going and proposed are not well thought out and will not have any meaningful impact to this country.

@jokes, the thika road project was feasible from all points of view hence taking the 10 years from concept to completion.
For Konza, no matter which angle any one wants to look at it, there is just no justification . Konza will grow naturally just as all towns frow. Growth starts from CBD then radiates to Athi river then Machakos junction /Machakos town then to Konza then to Makindu all the way to Mombasa in the next 50 to 100 years or so. This growth tends to follow the road/rilway hence it will be along the mombasa road and only branches towards Machakos because of the exisiting machakos infrastructure.

For Konza to jump all the empty undeveloped spaces between Athi river and Machakos junction, i dont see the possibility in the near 10 to 15 years. The growth at Konza will just have to follow this pattern.

Which CBD?? anyway your observations have made me think. The former Govt spokesman was out of the block first/fast...makes you think....
Did you know the vision2030 website is down...

@pound, Thika Rd was very good in the first few months. Then we all bought cars which we all want to drive to work. Traffic jam problem is unlikely to be sorted by expansion of road and rail networks as we will still buy more cars for daily drives to work

What Matiang'i will not tell you is that people feel that this project should have been in Thika so thats where the bureaucracy problem is coming from.
Konza city dev plan is no different from what Mutua is planning in Mks just that the latter is in small scale.

Those who have had the privilege of travelling will tell you that Konza is a replica of other developments elsewhere, tho in a small scale. I will get a bit personal, between where i work and where i live i can count more than 15 IT related companies that have their offices set up for the obvious reason of infrastructure(Cable, both fiber & electric are underground thus downtimes are minimal, in simple terms hakuna wizi wa mafuta ya transformer ama wire za simu etc). Apart frm tht, there are apartments, normal shops (clothing, restaurants of all kinds, hotels, banks, discos, amusement parks etc) People rarely leave to do anything elsewhere. Ndemo has traveled he knows what he was advocating for, just that its hard for people who havent experienced it to understand. B4 i left Nai, i always thot there was nothing else better out there.

architects descriptions of how towns and cities should come up or evolve is a description of how eastlands came to be, the mess that is Nrb today. An exhibit of lack of planning. The last time planning happened in Nrb was when mzungu was at the helm. I guess the African never got to understand the concept.

Who knows what the population limit of Nrb is?

Now to Thika rd. See how infrastructure draws a population, people moved from other parts of the city & they went to that part of town. Lack of planning again is causing a mess. Cities and towns should have a population limit, and one way of doing this is defining the purpose of the city/town. I have been to areas just set for medical purposes. A cancer center, university, normal hospitals, nursing homes, a pharmaceutical, rehab center etc. Kinda like how upperhill (the area where theres KNH NBR hosp Doc plaza, etc ) in summary, zoning