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| Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General, Mohammed Badi |
NAIROBI, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A plan to build a $246.6 million city has moved a notch higher after the Nairobi Metropolitan Service in partnership with Kenya Railways picked UK firm Atkins Global to design the project.
The deal will see the firm design the iconic Nairobi Railways City, a multi-modal urban development project which will be situated in Nairobi at an unknown cost.
The project will be situated within 425-acres, of which 292 acres is owned by the Kenya Railways and currently serving as the Nairobi Railway Station.
“UK firm Atkins Global has been appointed to design Nairobi’s new Central Train Station and associated public realm, which will provide the centerpiece of Nairobi Railway City,” said UK’s Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford.
“It is a flagship project to regenerate Nairobi’s Central Business District initiated by President Kenyatta, who personally requested UK support when he met Prime Minister Boris Johnson in January 2020,” she said.
Speaking in Nairobi yesterday, Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohammed Badi said the project will see Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) currently picking and dropping passengers around Haile Selassie roundabout forced to find a new holding ground to pave way for works on the project. — NNN-AGENCIES
