{"id":129884,"date":"2016-07-13T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T09:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=129884"},"modified":"2016-07-14T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:08:01","slug":"new-developments-at-cape-towns-r14-billion-green-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/129884\/new-developments-at-cape-towns-r14-billion-green-village\/","title":{"rendered":"New developments at Cape Town’s R14 billion ‘green’ village"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cape Town’s new R14 billion “car-free” Blue Rock Village is getting two new features in the form of the Santa Luzia Lifestyle centre and the\u00a05-star Blue Rock Hotel and Conferencing centre.<\/p>\n

The Blue Rock\u00a0Village is a R14 billion\u00a0upgrade to the current Blue Rock Resort located in Somerset West, in Cape Town, aimed at becoming South Africa’s ‘greenest’ city – the first with a six-star green rating from the\u00a0Green Building Council South Africa.<\/p>\n

The village will be \u2018car-free\u2019 with all parking to be underground, while apartments will use energy efficient appliances; LED lighting; water-management systems from showers to irrigation; solar water-heating systems and self-generated solar power.<\/p>\n

The Santa Luzia Lifestyle Centre will be a multi-functional centre boasting 14\u00a0000\u00a0square metres of\u00a0floor space in a 7\u00a0story building.<\/p>\n

It will offer 10\u00a0000 square metres of street \u00a0exhibition space, designed for hosting conferences,\u00a0exhibitions, and interactive events such as local produce markets, product launches, and concerts or\u00a0music festivals.<\/p>\n

The Blue Rock Hotel\u00a0and\u00a0conferencing centre is envisioned to have about 150 luxury rooms, 30 condominiums, and conference\u00a0capacity for over 500 delegates. It will also include high-end restaurants, a bar and lounge areas.<\/p>\n

The full Blue Rock Village development will ultimately\u00a0comprise 1,000 luxury apartments to be built on 40 hectares of land.\u00a0Units start from \u20ac200 000 \u2013 R3.2 million,\u00a0at\u00a0the current exchange rate.<\/p>\n

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More on developments<\/h3>\n

A look at Pretoria\u2019s new R12 billion precinct<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A look at Rosebank\u2019s massive R7 billion face-lift<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A look at the new R140 billion city planned for Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A look at Pretoria\u2019s R8 billion \u201cgreen city\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town’s new R14 billion “car-free” Blue Rock Village is getting two new addtions in the form of the Santa Luzia Lifestyle centre and the 5-star Blue Rock Hotel and Conferencing centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":129896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-129884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130026,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129884\/revisions\/130026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}