Swanky mall for Gobabis
Residents of Gobabis will soon have a 9 300-square-metre shopping centre in their town.
Gobabis deputy mayor Cornelius Tjizoo has called on local businesspeople to consider investing in the town to uplift residents' living standards.
He was speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a planned 9 300-square-metre shopping centre by Safland Property Group, developers of the Grove Mall in Windhoek.
“We will be fooling ourselves if we think the regional government can meet all its intended objectives without the active participation of the private sector. Simply put, without the private sector, we are nothing,” he said.
The Gobabis Shopping Mall is expected to be fully operational towards the end of this year.
The new mall, expected to be the region's single largest shopping venue, will be an extension of the current shopping centre housing South African retail giant Shoprite.
The current centre measuring 2 966 square metres will be revamped and extended to accommodate tenants that are not yet represented at the town.
Tjizoo said the town was open to any kind of investment, provided that such economic activity would not only offer a feasible business opportunity, but also put food on the table of residents through employment.
“Our people are in need of services which can be provided by businesspeople, but more so, they are also in need of jobs in order to provide for themselves,” he said.
He encouraged other business ventures to take advantage of the town's location as a gateway to Botswana and the rest of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by setting up shop here.
“We are ideally located to serve your business interest in SADC and beyond, and we are ready for business investors,” he said.
Omaheke governor Festus Ueitele called for the private sector to play a more defining role in the economic development of the region.
Ueitele said despite the good intentions of public-private partnerships, such efforts are yet to fully take shape and transform into tangible projects and programmes.
Ueitele said the government cannot go it alone as far as development is concerned because of the mammoth responsibility that entails such processes.
As such, it will be ideal if the private sector comes on board by complementing government programmes and projects to allow the nation to reap best results in service delivery.
“The government is the mother of all development in the country, but such responsibility cannot be left to it alone. We welcome the private sector as a formidable partner in development,” he said.
Referring to the envisaged shopping mall as an excellent example of public-private partnerships whereby the local municipality provided serviced land for the project, Ueitele said such acts need to be replicated in other projects.
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He was speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a planned 9 300-square-metre shopping centre by Safland Property Group, developers of the Grove Mall in Windhoek.
“We will be fooling ourselves if we think the regional government can meet all its intended objectives without the active participation of the private sector. Simply put, without the private sector, we are nothing,” he said.
The Gobabis Shopping Mall is expected to be fully operational towards the end of this year.
The new mall, expected to be the region's single largest shopping venue, will be an extension of the current shopping centre housing South African retail giant Shoprite.
The current centre measuring 2 966 square metres will be revamped and extended to accommodate tenants that are not yet represented at the town.
Tjizoo said the town was open to any kind of investment, provided that such economic activity would not only offer a feasible business opportunity, but also put food on the table of residents through employment.
“Our people are in need of services which can be provided by businesspeople, but more so, they are also in need of jobs in order to provide for themselves,” he said.
He encouraged other business ventures to take advantage of the town's location as a gateway to Botswana and the rest of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by setting up shop here.
“We are ideally located to serve your business interest in SADC and beyond, and we are ready for business investors,” he said.
Omaheke governor Festus Ueitele called for the private sector to play a more defining role in the economic development of the region.
Ueitele said despite the good intentions of public-private partnerships, such efforts are yet to fully take shape and transform into tangible projects and programmes.
Ueitele said the government cannot go it alone as far as development is concerned because of the mammoth responsibility that entails such processes.
As such, it will be ideal if the private sector comes on board by complementing government programmes and projects to allow the nation to reap best results in service delivery.
“The government is the mother of all development in the country, but such responsibility cannot be left to it alone. We welcome the private sector as a formidable partner in development,” he said.
Referring to the envisaged shopping mall as an excellent example of public-private partnerships whereby the local municipality provided serviced land for the project, Ueitele said such acts need to be replicated in other projects.
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