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EKO ATLANTIC: Rising From the Ocean
The great cities of New York, London, Paris, Sydney, Buenos Aries, Dubai, and Hong Kong are known all over the world. Each has its own character, its distinctive architecture, and its famous landmarks. Within the next decade, the new city of Eko Atlantic will take its place among them, famous for its unique position on reclaimed land currently under the ocean off Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria.
Eko Atlantic will be a well planned, sustainable, well designed and efficiently run modern urban masterpiece. It will be an exemplar for city living in the 21st century. Rising from land the size of Manhattan that is being taken back from the Atlantic Ocean, the city will have six million square metres of prime development plots for sale. Eko Atlantic will be home to quarter of a million people who will work in the bustling financial and commercial hub and live in the pleasant tree-lined or waterfront residential districts. Another 100,000 will commute in each day from neighbouring Lagos using the well connected transport links. "We predict that Eko Atlantic will be one of the most modern and dynamic cities in Africa, perhaps in the world,” says Bernard Bridi, Marketing and Communications Director of South Energyx, Nigeria Limited, the development company responsible for making Eko Atlantic a reality.
The vast groundworks on which the cities foundations will be built are well under way. Already, a large portion of land that was torn away from the coastline by the power of the Atlantic surge has been recovered and now measures in excess of one million square metres. Extending a mile and a half out in the Atlantic Ocean, the city will face the waves, secure behind the protective barrier of the extensive Great Wall of Lagos, eventually to be 7 kilometres long.
