Landmark Towers: New destination for living, working, leisure
In keeping with its promise to set a new standard to serve as benchmark for the future of real estate development in Nigeria, Landmark Africa will, by year end, formally open the doors of its luxury towers to corporate executives and multinational clients in need of a one-stop-convenient address where they can live, work, play and even shop under one roof.
Known as Landmark Towers, the 10-floor facility is located along the shores of Atlantic Ocean beach front on Water Corporation Road in Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos which, the developers say, was intentionally chosen to give prospective residents a blend of serenity and splendour.
“At Landmark, we understand the needs of the business community in Lagos and having provided flexible office accommodation and business services for some of the world’s largest companies in Africa for over 17 years, we believe it’s time to up the game in Nigeria’s property scene with our new Tower,” Paul Onwuanibe, the Landmark Africa CEO, told BusinessDay.
Sited in what will eventually become a $267 million Landmark Village, a replica of the Rockefeller Centre in New York, Canary Wharf in London, Melrose Arch in Johannesburg, and Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town, the towers has Hard Rock Café and Shiro Japanese restaurant as its close neighbours.
It parades five individual 10 storey towers of prime office space, a luxury 4 star hotel and high-end residential apartments all due to be developed in several phases over the next three to four years.
The tower, which can be accessed from Ozumba Mbadiwe and Ajose Adeogun streets, is about three minutes drive from The British International School, Four Points by Sheraton and is surrounded by several private estates.
“In conformity with its mixed-use status, the tower comprises 67 percent office space, 14 percent residential, 13 percent retail and 6 percent leisure,” Deborah Nicol-Omeruah, the company’s Group Head, Corporate Finance, told this reporter during a recent tour of the facility, adding that the development would boast six floors of office space, 22 boutique short stay apartments, 2,100sqm of retail space on the ground floor, three-storey leisure facility offering a fully equipped gymnasium, eternity swimming pool and multi-purpose courts.
According to her, a ventilated cladding system has been used for the external walls to promote the façade upkeep. In addition, the building’s climate control will be achieved with the latest VRV cooling system designed to offer occupants comfort.
“Our intelligent Building Management System will control the building’s mechanical and electrical systems with features such as sensor-controlled lighting systems and plumbing, occupancy sensors, access-controlled offices, lifts and parking facilities for increased security; and diesel management for the two generators,” she added.
With about 75 percent of its total net lettable space already subscribed, its promoters say the limited office and retail space will rent for $1,100 and $1,000 per square metre respectively.
On approach to curb any possible Ocean surge, Deborah explained that a triple defence approach had been adopted to shield the building, adding, “we have created a stone embankment around our site to reduce the impact of the large tidal waves which were occurring as a result of the ongoing land reclamation work in the area. Our next line of defence is to sheet-pile the boundary wall around the site to reinforce the stability of this area, and then our third layer of defence was the construction of an anchor wall to be tied rigidly to the sheet-piled boundary wall,” she said.
ODINAKA MBONU