Real estate battle switches to ‘live, work and play’ projects

Montave, a proposed development that presents an intricate mix of shopping, working, visiting, living and leisure at 3.54 acre site in Upperhill, Nairobi.

NAIROBI, KENYA: A few metres from the junction of Lower Hill Road and Haile Selassie Avenue, Nairobi, bulldozers will soon start roaring to life and cranes rise to the skies when construction of one of the most ambitious projects in the country starts on the more than three-and-a-half acres just a stone’s throw away from the city centre.

If all goes according to plan, the eucalyptus trees will be replaced by towering concrete and glass structures that will change the city’s skyline in the next three years. Expected to rise 160 metres into the sky, Montave, launched last year, will usher in one of the most prestigious mixed-use developments that proprietors say will offer “the best in luxury and practicability” at a convenient and central location.