Works on The Hillock Residences project underway
Preparations for the casting of the main transfer slab on the Baron Group’s €18 million Hillock Residences project in Marsalforn are now in an advanced stage.
This should give way for the works to start on the shell structure of the apartment blocks soon. In the site's third zone, works are at an advanced stage in the car park and construction of the first apartments is expected to commence in the coming weeks.
Other works taking place on site include the mobilisation of the civil works, the casting of the steel reinforcement bases and columns at foundation level and excavations in the northern part of the site are commencing in the coming days both in the first and second zones.
The Hillock Residences is a residential block of 150 apartments located on the site of the former Atlantis Hotel in Marsalforn.
The project will be built in one phase over three years. It will be split into a number of individual units each with only a limited number of apartments. The units will offer a variety of single, double and three bed-roomed apartments and penthouses all including lock-up garages.
The residences will be utilising green measures to ensure it is environmentally-friendly. Insulation systems that make use of thermal panels on all exposed roofs will also help save energy from air-conditioning units.
The apartments, which start from €90,000, will feature property management services on-site. This includes an administrator system and maintenance needs even in the absence of the tenants.
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C. Farrugia
Apr 9th 2010, 09:07
What I cannot understand is who is going to buy these properties, when Marsalforn is full of vacant half compelted properties, with two large developments being built this one and another more near the centre. Developers seem not to know what they are doing. How do they envisage that they sell their property when other properties have lied vacant and semi completed for years?
I Cassar
Apr 9th 2010, 08:37
I am no fan of developers who over the years, through ill conceived projects, have done much to ruin the same areas from which their profits were coming. However these developers seem to be handling this project very sensibly. At least they are redeveloping an existing urban area rather then building in the ever shrinking countryside. Government should take the clue and start thinking of redeveloping underused and shabby industrial areas rather then planning new ones on virgin land.
“Insulation systems that make use of thermal panels on all exposed roofs will also help save energy from air-conditioning units.” These should become standard practices.