DELIGHT LION MATCH FACTORY Every so often, SAVE OUR BEREA features a DELIGHT and OUTRAGE post where we celebrate the good and criticize the downright ugly. As we have said before, our page is not only about the things that are wrong in our City but also about the delights. Those things that add positively and of which we can all be proud. One of these is the transformation of the old Lion Match Factory which has been going on for years now, undertaken by the JT Ross group, which itself is synonymous with the history of Durban. JT Ross is a local construction company, property development company and property owner that is 112 years old and has been run by one family for four generations. The turn-around of this property has been phased to coincide with market demand and is a winner that gets better and better. With that sort of history it is one of Durban’s “delights” when one sees what has been done with what is now called the Lion Match Office Park. The original factory was built in 1925. The existing buildings have been beautifully restored and added to them are new office buildings and showrooms, which now house amongst others JT Ross themselves, The Chamber of Commerce, Jonsson Workwear, Bay Union, Sumitomo Tyres and the Kings Park Medical Centre to name a few. This is a classical example of restoration of the old, working side by side with the new. The site, between a busy road with previously, a very much an industrial feel, and a railway line and dwarfed by the Growthpoint Kings Park rugby stadium has been transformed into a secure, desirable oasis for commercial uses that leads the way in urban regeneration. Recently added is the Boiler Room Café, a facility intended for the many tenants on the property, but already attracting a lot of attention from the Durban’s coffee set. Definitely one of Durban’s “delights”
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:33:17 +0000
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