Leading South African property developer and investor Atterbury today announced it will undertake a prime new multibillion-Rand development in Pretoria. Atterbury’s latest venture will be a modern, mixed-use commercial development on about 85ha of prime land, at the high-profile juncture of the N1 and R21 highways. The development will be similar to Atterbury’s staggering development Waterfall in Midrand, albeit on a different scale. Waterfall includes Southern Africa’s largest single-phase shopping centre development, Mall of

With just around five months and exactly six months to go before Rio Olympics and Paralympics swing into action respectively, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launched an exciting campaign named ‘TeamSA Rise’ in Johannesburg on Monday, 7 March 2016. The #teamSArise viral campaign is aimed at supporting South Africa’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they make their final preparations to represent the nation at the biggest international sporting events. The campaign

After starting its European expansion last year with an investment in Cyprus, Atterbury Europe took the next step by partnering with one of Serbia’s leading property developers in December. We spoke to Atterbury Europe CFO Henk Deist about what 2016 holds in store With the Cyprus deal Atterbury owns the entire asset, but now in Serbia you have a local partner on the ground. What are the biggest operational differences? Having a competent partner

The Manna vir die Boere Konsert at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria was a resounding success that raised almost R2.5 million in emergency relief for South Africa’s drought-stricken farmers on Saturday 20 February. And, as if nature wanted to bless the project, the rain came pouring down when Laurika Rauch launched into the chorus of “Stuur Groete aan Mannetjie Roux”, the last song of the concert. The lyric “O stuur ons net ’n bietjie

Uplifting the community has been central to the thinking around Atterbury’s massive Richmond Park development in the Western Cape and early this year the new independent trust, the Richmond Park Treasury Trust, kicked off its work. Zahn Hulme gives some insight into what is planned for 2016. Atterbury already has Atterbury Trust; and a separate trust has been formed to look after the Richmond Park community. Why is that? In terms of the Richmond

Atterbury announced today the development of a new R650 million mall in the key Namibian port city of Walvis Bay. Atterbury is the joint developer and co-owner of the newly named Dunes Mall, previously called the Erongo Mall development. Bulk earthworks on the mall began in November 2015 and its doors are set to open to the public late next year. Louis van der Watt, CEO of Atterbury, comments: “We are delighted to launch

Atterbury will develop a R850 million industrial and business park on the prime site it has acquired in Gosforth Park, Germiston, in Ekurhuleni. A leading property investor and developer in South Africa and beyond, Atterbury has designed the ready-to-develop park to provide 103,000sqm of modern business space for blue-chip light industrial users requiring big box logistics warehouses as well as showrooms and offices. Superbly located at the intersection of the N3 highway and Rand

A new 148-room City Lodge Hotel has opened at Newtown Junction - Atterbury Property Developments’ ground-breaking R1.4 billion mixed-use development in the Joburg CBD. The three-star hotel is the latest addition to the award-winning 85,000m² Newtown Junction shopping, leisure and office development, which is jointly owned by Atterbury Property Holdings and JSE-listed Attacq Limited. Atterbury Property Developments led the project and secured JSE-listed City Lodge Hotel Group to operate the hotel. This is City

The mobile apps for Newtown Junction, The Grove Mall of Namibia, Lynnwood Bridge and Glenfair Boulevard will all be launched by March this year. The app includes pay by phone parking functionality and a loyalty programme. is a new technology company focusing on the retail market. It can tell you what you want to know about customer behaviour in a mall. This technology enables tenants to understand, influence and engage with their shoppers through

Atterbury’s Work Shop New Town project has changed the energy of downtown Jozi completely, bringing a creative, artisanal aspect to Newtown Junction. This exciting hub of fashion was curated by the accomplished husband-and-wife design team Trevyn and Julian McGowan, the brains behind the successful Watershed project at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. We had a sit-down with them two months after opening, to find out the lay of the land. What were your objectives when

It’s almost here… just four months to go until the mammoth Mall of Africa opens its automatic doors to a very excited Gauteng public. We spoke to Atterbury’s Johann Fourie and Evert Kleynhans about the final countdown. This must be a social media record: the mall isn’t even open yet and it has almost 43 000 likes on Facebook already! When is the marketing campaign kicking off? And how big are you going to

Atterbury’s exciting Work | Shop | New | Town development is getting even more exciting in February, when the Edwardian-era Gentlemen’s Washrooms makes a flamboyant re-entry onto the scene as The Gentlemen’s Arthouse cocktail bar. The CEO of the Life Group of Companies, Maira Koutsoudakis, shares some of the challenges of this unique restoration project Has there been particular challenges involved in restoring such an historic building? The challenge with heritage buildings is often

To tie in with the heavy emphasis on outdoor living and leading a healthy and active lifestyle at Waterfall, Virgin Active built one of its first outside training facilities at the Waterfall Lifestyle Centre gym. The greater Waterfall has several walking and cycling trails in the area for this purpose that are enjoyed by residents living in the various surrounding Waterfall Estates. Located on the corner of Woodmead and Maxwell Drive (across the road

WORK | SHOP | NEW | TOWN is officially open, bringing Johannesburg shoppers the best African fashion, design and lifestyle brands every day. The launch on 25 November was a huge success, with live music, celeb sightings and over 2,000 guests. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for the celebration!   WORK | SHOP | NEW | TOWN is an exciting retail concept that brings cutting-edge, locally-made products to Joburg in a beautifully designed