Inner-city housing is being snapped up and cleaned up While suburbia is steadily being transformed into a morass of ill-planned, overcrowded business nodes, Johannesburg's inner city is winning a war to create proper middle- and working-class housing, underpinned by a social housing programme.
Gauteng's R1,7bn expected to revitalise city's ailing inner suburbs
Johannesburg's struggling central business district (CBD) is set to become one of the biggest benefactors of the Gauteng government's commitment to increase fixed investment.
An increasing number of new black-owned business enterprises were opting to set up shop in the Johanneburg CBD, Kendal Probert, an Old Mutual Properties portfolio manager, said at the weekend.
Walking down Fox Street with Gerald Olitzki is like stepping out with Mr Jo'burg.
The practising attorney, who has come up with a workable way of filling city-centre buildings with tenants, stops to press flesh and exchange pleasantries with a number of people mostly tenants in our short walk to Gandhi Square.
Implosions will open spaces and help restore vibrancy', says Neil Fraser
Advocates of the Johannesburg CBD revival insist there is something wrong with the SA Property Owners' Association (Sapoa)'s latest quarterly survey.

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