The Cape Town City Council is constructing a magnificent new sports stadium in Green Point, which is in the heart of the city’s tourism hub. This modern stadium, set against the unique scenic backdrop of Table Mountain, Signal Hill and Lion’s Head, is located adjacent to the highly successful Victoria and Alfred Waterfront development and has views across Table Bay to Robben Island and beyond.
The stadium and its immediate precinct are part of a much larger recreational lung in the city central area known as the Green Point Common, which currently provides facilities for athletics, cricket, football, hockey, golf and tennis as well as being available to the public at large for unrestricted recreational purposes. There has been a popular informal trading market held regularly on the Common every Sunday and on Public Holidays for many years.
The stadium is being financed jointly by the National and Provincial governments together with the City Council as part of South Africa’s Host Country obligations to provide major venues for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The new stadium is designed to meet the stringent standards set by FIFA as a venue to host one of the two semi-final matches for this prestigious event as well as eight other World Cup matches, and is an iconic symbol of the pride that the city’s citizens feel in being selected as one of the Host Cities.
Proposals are now being invited from suitably experienced and well-resourced organisations to be the contracted Operator of both the stadium and an urban park that is being designed to occupy a significant portion of the adjacent Common land. The Operator will perform under a full maintenance basis for this important addition to Cape Town’s sporting, recreational and tourism infrastructure. The period of contractual commitment required is not less than 10 (ten) and not more than 30 (thirty) years.
Tenders are also invited for the sale of the Naming Rights to the Stadium for a period of not less than 10 (ten) and not more than 15 (fifteen) years.
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