Cape Town is acknowledged as Africa’s leading tech hub, with the city employing more people in the sector than anywhere else on the continent.

Property in the Cape Town Central City has soared in value by nearly 40%, from R30.628 billion in 2016/2017 to R42.860 billion in 2018/2019 – with 39 new developments worth in excess of R13.5 billion in the pipeline.

The Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) has kicked off its 2019 “Show you care” campaign with an ambitious fundraising drive to raise R100 000 over a three-month period to help key NGO partners further their invaluable work with the homeless in the Central City.

It’s time to come clean in the Central City and wise up on waste. The mounting cost of keeping downtown Cape Town clean, and why we need to become responsible about rubbish or pay the price, is the message of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District’s (CCID) annual #KeepItClean campaign.

Cape Town, 15 May 2018 - The latest edition of The State of Cape Town Central City Report: 2017 – A year in review has revealed that R23.954 billion of investment has, conservatively, been committed to the Cape Town Central City since the start of 2017.

A visual and thought-provoking campaign to raise public awareness about keeping the Cape Town CBD clean is now in effect until end May.

Following on from last year’s format for the Cape Town Summer Market, the City of Cape Town has ticked all the boxes to ensure that this year’s market builds on the successes of the previous year, with fun activities that will keep young and old well entertained for the evening.

When the City of Cape Town joined the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities programme in 2016, the Cape Town Central City Improvement District(CCID) took this to heart, vowing to implement and adapt its own programmes as far as possible to ensure the future resilience of the Mother City’s CBD.

The Cape Town Central City looks towards creating a resilient CBD by connecting the dots between property investment, retail, commercial activity, public entities and its own downtown communities to weather both the economic and political uncertainty currently facing South Africa.

"The State of Cape Town Central City Report: 2016 – A year in review" has been published for the fifth year in a row by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID). The report details that between 2012 and the end of 2016, just under R4.486 billion in property investment was completed.