Residents in and around Palm Ridge, Katlehong and Sky City can soon expect to visit an exciting new retail venture in the South of Johannesburg.

GMI Property Group (GMI), in collaboration with Cosmopolitan Projects, are pleased to announce the realisation of Sky City Mall as an exciting retail venture within the Sky City development.

Established just over 60 years ago to provide housing, schools and other amenities for the employees of Sasol’s first coal-to-oil refinery, Sasolburg is still a “company town” in the sense that its economic wellbeing is still largely dependent on a few big manufacturing plants.

Spire Property Management recently secured the management contracts for several retail centres in outlying areas of Durban and Johannesburg.

The R400-million Vaal Mall shopping centre in Vanderbijlpark will open its doors early in 2006.

Local and national government are devising plans to reverse urban decay.