Communitgrow
Property Matters in Cape Town

A REGENERATIVE SOLUTION TO BUILDING SUSTAINABLE AFRICAN CITIES. communiTgrow has built a team that consists of five companies that together have over 45 years experience in urban development, sustainable planning and property development. communiTgrow is a private sector urban development company which has identified the crucial need to adopt a new approach to city building for Africa’s growing urban population.

communiTgrow offers a regenerative solution to building sustainable cities in Africa. communiTgrow relies on a network of organisations, individuals and companies who are experts in urban development and who share our ethos that well-managed urban development can drive economic and social growth in Africa. By partnering with governments and landowners, we deliver large-scale projects which maximise the potential of African communities. communiTgrow was started in 2006 in Cape Town in response to the need for community based solutions to urbanisation in the metropole and the rest of Africa. communiTgrow’s model for sustainable urban communities consists of Six Pillars that form the foundation of a regenerative community development, ensuring that people and the environment can flourish. communiTgrow is a assosiation of companies that bring together the disciplines of Community Development, Architecture, Environmental Management, Urban Design, Sustainability Planning, Development Planning, Property Development and Project Management to build integrated urban settlements. It is estimated that 800 new cities, consisting of a million people each, will be needed to accommodate everybody on the continent in the next 40 years. This presents us with the opportunity to proactively design thriving sustainable urban communities and regions. CommuniTgrow’s pilot project, Wescape, is situated in Cape Town where the city is faced with a housing backlog of almost half a million homes. Wescape will assist in providing solutions to many of the metropole’s economic expansion requirements and 20 year plan for education, housing and healthcare. As founding partner and CEO of ARG Design, she has pioneered a practice of socially and environmentally transformative design. Alastair Rendall is a founding partner of ARG Design. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Cape Town in 1985 and a Master of City Planning and Urban Design in Since his early work with the Urban Foundation and the Development Action Group (1986 to 1996), he has been concerned with the complex interplay of institutional, economic and environmental sustainability. Adrian Booysen is focused on Group Strategic Business Development implementation. Adrian has over 20 years’ experience locally and internationally in business strategy and development, corporate modeling, capital and transaction structuring. His main thrust is as strategic contributor to planning, development and implementation of all the communiTgrow’s enterprise opportunities.