Confortis plans third generation city in Togo

A Togolese-based firm that specialised in architecture, city planning, engineering and real estate, Derou and Partners Group has announced the commencement of construction activities, through its subsidiary Confortis International on a new third generation town in Lomé.

Christened “WellCity”, the proposed new town “will enable the Togolese middle class to purchase environmental conscious and quality housing, at an affordable price and with repayment terms sustainable in the long term”, the CEO of Confortis, Dontou Hiloukou Derou, an architect said.

Located on the outskirts of Greater Lome, 30 minutes north of downtown, on the National No. 1 road, this “City of well Being” in the Grand Lomé suburbs, this “town of wellbeing” will offer, in its first phase, 500 accommodations (200 villas and 300 flats), then 1,000 accommodations with a water park, MICE hotel, a school, a clinic, a shopping centre and 10,000 m2 of office space as well as stores.

“Yesterday, the modern world had industrial towns. Today, we have second generations cities which are business cities (Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore). Tomorrow, third generation towns will be aiming towards wellbeing and environmentalism”, Mr. Derou, creator of the WellCity project, declared.

According to its promoters, the three essential assets of WellCity are in the land title it offers, in the standardization of its dwellings with a monitoring of the quality of its materials and finally, in the possibility to benefit from a 15 year refundable credit at subsidized rates.

“WellCity was designed to facilitate access to property for the middle class. If the Togolese State grants us the necessary facilities throughout the construction chain, it will be possible to offer very competitive prices”, the group CEO promised.

The commissioning ceremony of the showroom of this real estate complex was particularly enhanced by the attendance of the Togolese minister of Planning, Habitat and Living Environment, Fiatuwo Kwadjo Sessenou and the General Secretary of the Office of the President, Patrick Date Tevi-Benissan.