President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday broke ground at the US$100 million Millennium Park development in Borrowdale West signaling the construction of the premium luxury 86-unit block of apartments named ED Block during a well-attended housing delivery ceremony.
The block has a limited offer of ultra-luxury penthouses, an offering that separates the development from any other in Harare.

A total of 1000 apartments are under construction with 200 already complete. A shopping mall, office blocks and other social amenities will be constructed to complete the live, work, shop and play theme that WestProp is championing under the ‘Bring Dubai to Zimbabwe” mantra.

He was handed a befitting token of a gold-plated ceremonial brick numbered 1,464,018. The brick represents the first brick that would be laid on block 4.

WestProp Chief executive officer Mr Ken Sharpe gave a brief analogy and road map for the development adding that his company has a vision of laying one billion bricks by 2050.

“Today marks a very important day in our milestone achievements. We are breaking ground for the construction of Millennium Heights Block 4 luxury apartments and we continue to move towards achieving our 0ne billion brick vision by 2050,” he said.

The vision was developed during his three year stint at Harvard University in the United States of America.

To date the company has laid 5,199,711 brick at all of its developments – Pomona City, Millennium Heights and Pokugara representing six percent of the total number of earmarked bricks.

Mr Sharpe described President Mnangagwa as “a listening President and allowing businesses and investors to feel secure about the continued use of the multi-currency regime.

” The extension to 2030 has given us confidence and a renewed resolve to commit more resources to help develop Zimbabwe. If I may say so Mr President, this will secure your legacy to make Zimbabwe an upper middle-income country. Sevana veZimbabwe tichavaka nyika kusvika zvanaka.”

Mr Sharpe said his company was bringing various global architectural designs to Zimbabwe as a way of making the country’s urban landscape competitive.

“My ambition as a loyal Zimbabwean is to bring the beauty we see elsewhere back home. The dream is to see Harare’s skyline compete with what we see in places like Dubai, London and Singapore.