'hands' by Mlungisi Mzingi

The City of Johannesburg through its implementing agent, The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), has identified the VILAKAZI STREET PRECINCT (VSP) as a potentially important cultural, heritage and economic node. As such the short-term objective for the project is to stabilise, consolidate and improve the heritage assets in the Orlando area while the long-term objective aims to put in place a sustainable management model for the precinct. The scope of work for the current fiscal year will be the development of a detailed upgrade design framework with a focus on upgrade interventions and the implementation of immediate catalytic interventions that would initiate the development process. It is felt that long-term interventions could provide leverage for private and public sector investment into the area.

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