MOSSEL BAY

RSEP Focus Area:

The neighbourhoods of Kwanonqaba and De Almeida

Background:

Mossel Bay has very high growth potential as well as very high socio-economic needs. The town has, and is therefore expected to see higher rates of population growth, particularly in marginalised areas, which lack safe economic, youth and social facilities. Integration of the town from a reconstruction perspective is made harder by the topography, although opportunities exist along the primary movement routes like Mayixhale Street, Bill Jeffrey and Louis Fourie Corridors.  

The Mayixhale Street Corridor Plan was formulated by the RSEP team in 2018, together with the local community and municipality. This served as a menu of development needs and wants for the area.

In Kwanonqaba and De Almeida two satellite nodes have been upgraded with separate mixed use trader hubs. One on the corner of Mayixhale Street and Bill Jeffrey and one on the corner of Bill Jeffrey and Mossel Street. The mixed use ‘Youth and Business Park’ has 19 trader units (9 actively fronting the street), a car wash, ablution facilities, an astro-turf chill area, an outdoor gym, a raised dancing stage, space for informal traders, art murals, a playground and a security guard house. The De Almeida Trader Hub has 15 units. All traders have been successfully placed.

The site conceptual layouts, developed by RSEP, were used to assist Mossel Bay Municipality in securing additional funding from the National DSBD’s Shared Economic Infrastructure Fund (SEIF). DEDAT also contributed funding and so did Mossel Bay Municipality. The RSEP PO also formulated an optimal tenant mix strategy and operations / management plan for each trader hub.

Due to RSEP involvement in Mossel Bay, the projects have become funded by all three spheres of government and four different departments.

Mossel Bay - Reconstruction Framework

Featured Project:

The Youth and Business Park has 19 trader units (9 actively fronting the street), a car wash, ablution facilities, an astro-turf chill area, an outdoor gym, a raised dancing stage, space for informal traders, art murals, a playground and a security guard house.