Havelock City | |
Map Type: | Sri Lanka Colombo Municipality |
Location: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Coordinates: | 6.8822°N 79.8667°W |
Status: | Under construction |
Building Type: | Mixed-use |
Floor Count: | 22–46 |
Elevator Count: | 24+ |
Architect: | Senaka Dharmatilleke ECADI DGFI |
Owner: | Mireka Capital Land, a subsidiary of Overseas Realty (Ceylon) |
Havelock City is a large mixed-use real-estate project in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Residential component of the project consists of 8 residential towers and the Commercial component of the project consists of a 46-storey office tower and a Shopping Mall built to international standards. It is popular for its clubhouse, 7-acre garden, and the overall size of the project.[1] The first 4 residential towers, namely Park Tower and Elibank Tower (of construction Phase-1), and Layards Tower and Davidson Tower (of construction Phase-2), were completed as at early 2017 with 22 floors each, and is currently occupied by residents. Phase-3 is currently under construction, and will consist of the Stratford Tower and Melford Tower, with 28 floors each.[2] [3] Piling for Phase-4 was done with Phase-3 to expedite development. Both phases is estimated to cost over US$130 million.[4]
At a cost of US$ 166 million, the 46-storey commercial skyscraper will have 600000ft2 of office space and 200000ft2 for the shopping mall. The ground-breaking ceremony for the commercial component was ceremonially conducted on 29 December 2016 with the auspices of S P Tao, the chairman of Overseas Realty, along with other dignitaries such as ministers Mangala Samaraweera and Champika Ranawaka.[5]
East China Architecture Design and Research Institute (ECADI) and Design Group Five International of Sri Lanka are the leading architects of the project. Havelock City is developed and managed by Mireka Capital Land (Pvt) Ltd, a fully own subsidiary of .
The project is being built on a single 18abbr=on0abbr=on site, once the premises of the . Prior to construction commencing, the land was the largest cleared land in Colombo.[6]
The Havelock City Bridge is a 1200NaN0 beam bridge which connects the Havelock City premises at the southeast of the bridge, to Skelton Road in the northwest. The bridge's ground-breaking ceremony was held 4 September 2008,[7] and completed in late 2012. The bridge was constructed by the Sri Lankan engineering firm International Construction Consortium at a cost of US$1.27 million.