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Strides of progress by GCID
Thanks to the commitment of all who are involved in the Glosderry City Improvement District drive, strides of progress are being made in various ways. Problems like illegal dumping and the confiscation of stolen trolleys and wheelie-bins are successfully addressed by the teams. The Public Safety issues that are addressed during the day-to-day activities, include problems related to the…
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Glosderry News – an Update from GCID’s Manager
Recycling IN a recent conversation with GCID manager Lennox Leyile, he was asked how Glosderry handled the issue of recycling. He replied that in Glosderry, businesses did their own recycling and any unwanted item in public spaces got bagged and collected by a truck from CCT. “Any other item not collected by the council truck, we do a C3 Notification on, or it gets taken to the Council drop-off facility (i.e. the dumping site)…
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Geocentric Launches New App
“As Geocentric we are very proud to launch our new mobile phone reporting application,” said Gene Lohrentz of the urban management company recently. “This is another way in which we are enabling our CID business and property owners to interact with their City Improvement District Management. “We want our CID contributors to become part of our family by interacting…
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Noticeable transformation of Glosderry area
The following report was delivered by Mr Roy Kemmis-Betty, chairperson of Glosderry City Improvement District Board at the annual general meeting on 1 November 2017: The Glosderry CID is now nearing the end of its initial period of 5 years marked by a noticeable transformation of the Glosderry area in terms of security, cleanliness and…
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CID activities reviewed and renewed at AGM
At Glosderry City Improvement District’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 1 November 2017 not only the past year’s activities were reviewed, but an extension of the CID term and planning for the next five years was also considered. In view of a Special Ratings Area levy of 8 percent on property tax, members were especially…
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Overall city water use still exceeding restriction target
The City of Cape Town is calling on residents to intensify their efforts to save water. Overall usage of drinking water is currently approximately 10% higher than the required savings target to prevent drawing dams down to dangerous levels by the end of summer. The City of Cape Town advises residents that overall water…
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A positive partnership with the City
Earlier this year the GCID management walked the City of Cape Town officials through the area and discussed potential maintenance and upgrade issues with them. Since then the City of Cape Town has made numerous improvements in the area including the surfacing of sidewalks, the upgrading of road surfaces, the installation of new bollards, the…
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Cleaning of the area
The GCID was very dirty when operations started. Especially the public open areas along Glosderry and Garfield Roads were very neglected, strewn with litter and illegal dumping and frequented with places where vagrants made fires and left rotten food in bags. This was all cleaned up in the first few weeks of the operations. Thereafter…
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Public Safety as a priority
From the 1st day of operations the public safety team deployed in the area. The team consists of two public safety officers that patrol the area in the day and a patrol vehicle with an armed response officer patrolling the area at night. The team is supported on a regular basis by the Public Safety…
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Glosderry CID News – May 2014
The vision of the GCID is to create and maintain a clean and safe urban environment in support of the business activities and the property investments in the area. The Glosderry CID Steering Committee appointed Geocentric Urban Management as the management company for the area and Zonewatch at the Public Safety service provider. As the…