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Cape Town's highway construction project is not "dead and buried" and the city will return to the drawing board to find another way to get the project going, said Sunday the Mayor Patricia De Lille
"Our first try did not work," said De Lille in a statement.
It is after the city manager Lungelo Mbandazayo made the decision to cancel it on the basis of a legal opinion, after a call the RFP meant that the plans could not go forward
Last week's City statement also indicated that economic circumstances had changed since the initial plan to develop the area had been formulated. FIGHT: The development of the foreshore was one of the reasons for the fallout of De Lille
The ambitious project would have established developing the remaining six hectares in the CBD near the port so as to treat the unmanaged road , reduce traffic congestion and provide additional housing closer to the city.
From Lille stated that despite the cancellation of the RFPs, "the cancellation of the RFP does not mean that the project is canceled".
"The need to address the future of unfinished highways remains, as does the need to ensure access to affordable housing in our downtown."
Requests for Proposals were issued in July 2016 and in 2017 Residents must go to see an exhibition of some of the proposals and ideas of some of the bidders, including a vast complex of circular flats, and vote for the one they prefer the most.
The land belongs to the City and De Lille said the RFP process revealed a "market appetite" to develop the field with six "compelling and innovative proposals".
Bidders were notified in writing on July 13 that the project was off the table because the RFP was unclear. The evaluation criteria for the RFP were vague
which raised concerns from commercial organizations such as the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce and the Western Cape Property Development Forum who were upset by the fact that, after all the work
De Lille said that Mbandazayo has agreed that the RFP will be redrafted to address the concerns raised during appeals, and that it will be reissued.
A project team has already been formed for this case.
Mitchell Du Plessis Projects (Pty) Ltd, marketed as Mitchell Du Plessis Associates (MDA), was originally announced as a qualified development bidder.
De Lille thanked the developers and said that she hoped that they would understand the city had no precedent on which to support it.
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