World Trade Centre Abuja has started selling

Driving through the Airport Return Road last week, this reporter spotted a notice calling for potential buyers. On inquiry, it was discovered that Churchgate Group, builder of the centre has already made substantial sales on the two towers there. The World Trade Centre has Tower One for residences ownership. There is Tower Two for office […]

Driving through the Airport Return Road last week, this reporter spotted a notice calling for potential buyers. On inquiry, it was discovered that Churchgate Group, builder of the centre has already made substantial sales on the two towers there.
The World Trade Centre has Tower One for residences ownership. There is Tower Two for office space while the Capital Mall which is at foundation level is for commercial purpose.
The two towers have already given the city of Abuja elegance. They are so far the tallest in the city with 24 and 25 floors. The towers which can be seen from all parts of the city overlook Tsukunda plaza and the adjacent structures in that corridor.
Between the two towers, a two-floor parking space, recreational facilities like swimming pool, tennis court are being built.
In the residential tower (which is 24 floors), a one-bedroom unit of 130sqm sells for $768,226.68. A two-bedroom goes for $1,483,271.73 while a three-bedroom house costs $1,536,453.36.
A buyer can as well go for a three-bedroom duplex for $1,542,366.09. There are two-bedroom, five-bedroom and six-bedroom penthouses based on request.
Tower Two which is for office use sells 301.52sqm minimum, costing $1,785,058.71. Here, a customer may take a whole floor. This is calculated as 301sqm multiplied by four. All are for outright ownership if one buys.
It was gathered that the two towers are only the first phase of the project. Works on the symbolic Twin Towers which will be over 30 floors are yet to start. The Twin Towers will have a five-star hotel, the kind never found here yet. Altogether, seven towers and one upscale shopping mall will stand on completion of the project.
There was no official to give the completion level and target of the two towers. When Daily Trust visited the site last week, it was humming: workers wearing hard hats, reflective jackets and boots were walking in and out of the yard. Power generators were also purring in the scorching weather with clouds of dust continually raised by moving cars and trucks. Cranes were swerving and construction workers were being taken high up the top floors.
The tower for office space is more advanced in construction works. It is being clad with wall curtail which a worker told this reporter is bullet proof. It has 25 floors.
A staff of Churchgate Group said, “This is world class. We’re not compromising standards.” A construction worker told this reporter that he enjoys doing his work on the site.
Churchgate is a foreign consortium. It came in with the investment hoping to build operate and recoup its expenses. Abuja Investments Company Ltd is the main partner with the developer.
Efforts to get information from the investment company even with repeated visits proved abortive. Segun Ogunsola who is Marketing and Communications head could not give much information concerning the status of the project.
A chap who sells rice in a shopping complex near the construction site is nursing fears that on completion of the centre, his business premises might be closed. If this happens, it will not be the first. Similar thing happened to Bakasi market. In fact, the site on which the centre is being constructed was once Bakasi market.
It is said the center will be the most discerning destination of power and sophistication in Africa. It is to be vibrant cityscape of culture, cuisine, couture shopping and AAA-commerce.
To create this astonishing Abuja destination, the Churchgate Group awarded the architectural design to the internationally renowned firm, Woods Bagot, applauded for crafting some of the most prestigious landmark destinations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.