Africa's Tallest Skyscraper, Palm Exotjca to be Set Up in Watamu Beach, Malindi
Watamu beach in Malindi, Kilifi County is set to be home of Africa's tallest skyscraper.
Dubbed Palm Exotjca, the 61-storey tower will be 370 metres tall and overlooking the Malindi Marine National Park.
The multi-billion shilling structure is designed by Rome-based architect Lorenzo Pagnini and will house luxury suites and a 24-hour casino. Its design is borrowed from traditional art motifs.
Its proprietors say it will cater for “the discerning travellers who appreciate life’s finer things” and will have a 270-bed hotel, shopping mall and nightclub. It will also have 180 serviced apartments, office suites, a conference center and restaurants.
The tower's developers are a consortium of investors drawn from New York (United States) South Africa and 89-year-old Italian billionaire Franco Rosso.
When complete, Palm Exotjca will be Kenya's tallest building eclipsing 195-metre-high Britam Towers in Nairobi. It will also be taller that Africa's tallest skyscraper, 223-metre Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Comments (4)
Fake news will believe it when i see it Scam all the way trying to entice investors!!
Excuse my ignorance. I thought Skyscraper are build in big cities where there is no enough space to build horizontally that why they go vertically. Watamu is a sparsely populated village.
The 61 storey tower will be 370 meters tall. That would mean 6.06 meters per floor. Must be the Tower of Babel.
This will be an environmental disaster. Watamu, of all the places they can destroy?