Tenders go out for Coega’s first office block

ED RICHARDSON THE COEGA Development Corporation has put out tenders for building the Coega Industrial Development Zone’s first multi-storey office block. Construction of the 800m² four-floor office block is due to start in August 2005. “We have decided to operate within the IDZ to demonstrate our confidence in the development of the zone,” says CDC spokesperson Vuyelwa Qinga-Vika. The corporation has also outgrown the present offices, which are no longer suitable for the business. “The estimated cost for the new offices is R70-million, and I believe that this is a cost effective option because currently we are renting the Humerail offices, and have been doing so for the past five years,” says Qinga-Vika. It will be the second permanent complex in the Coega IDZ. The first was the Coega recruitment centre, which provides offices for the Coega Labour and Business Management Services (LBMS) and offices for unions represented on site, as well as facilities for recruiting, testing and inducting Coega workers. Half of the space will be occupied by the Coega Development Corporation, with the remainder of the offices being leased to tenants in the Coega IDZ.