Trade - Green Heart of Kenya

We are creating a vibrant entrepreneurial hub and community, with light industry and symbiotic businesses coexisting with residential developments.

Strong value proposition for businesses and developers:

Prime location & commercially competitive. Competitive rates, cheap & productive labour force, great connections, good quality of life.

• Experience private sector partners. Established local operators, reputable partners and advisors.
• Ready-to-go. World-class design, unencumbered title deeds available to lease, development ready, utility and infrastructure access."

Competitive rates: Cheaper on average than Mombasa across core operational cost lines.

Cheap and productive labour force: Near a large working population that is 20% cheaper than in Mombasa and is responsive to training, courtesy of the 28th vocational training centres in Kilifi.

Great connections: On the Malindi-Mombasa Highway, equidistant (60km/1hr drive) from each. ~25 min to Vipingo Domestic Airport. Highway to be upgraded to a dual carriageway, with work already underway. Mombasa is East Africa’s primary shipping port and gateway to East African market through Mombasa-Nairobi-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway.

Abundant raw inputs: Has access to abundant agricultural and marine resources with a huge variety of crops already cultivated in Kilifi County. The project has 500 acres allocated for food, fibre and forest production, and crop choices can be influenced by early tenants.

Natural beauty & high quality of life: Kilifi has rich and diverse terrestrial & marine ecosystems, as well as an attractive climate, employee attraction and retention rates are high.

Experienced, local operators: The Wilson Family have been successful operators of businesses in region since early 1960s and bring their deep knowledge of the region to the delivery of Green Heart of Kenya.

Seed investment: Federico Pirzio-Biroli, Founder of Playfair Capital (London based VC fund) has provided seed capital to the Green Heart of Kenya and continues to support as an advisor.

Project development support: Savo Project Developers provides Green Heart of Kenya with project management, vendor management, tenant acquisition and investment facilitation support through their dedicated Sustainable Investment Cluster development team.

Technical design and planning partners: Green Heart of Kenya is supported by internationally recognised partners, such as MASS Design Group, BuildX, Arup and MACEYMR.

World-class design: Focussed on creating a vibrant entrepreneurial hub and community, with light industry and symbiotic businesses coexisting with residential developments.

Unencumbered titles & development ready: Land is secured with unencumbered titles ~90% of the land is levelled and ready to be developed.

Land available for lease: Long and short leases are available at competitive rates.

Utility and infrastructure access: Road and utility access are available to all tenants.

Existing activity on the ground: 14 acres (almost 30% of the site) are already accounted for.

Komaza is a tech-enabled, sustainable forestry company that is revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa through its innovative smallholder platform. In July 2020, Komaza secured $28m of the company’s Series B equity financing.

14Trees and Green Heart of Kenya have set out to develop Kaya Kilifi, a modern and sustainable ~100-unit housing development that combines low-income and affordable homes with renewable utilities, shared community space and regenerative farming solutions.

A private developer is building out commercial properties (including offices, retail and leisure) across 3 acres of the Gateway and within Green Heart of Kenya’s four underlining principles of incubation, inclusion, environment and profit.

Green Heart Tree Nursery is an independent tree nursery set up by our partners, focused on providing high-quality indigenous trees at affordable prices.

The FoMo Factory is at the heart of Green Heart of Kenya, both figuratively and literally. It’s a vibrant hub where you can find us working the days away in the co-working space, surrounded by the flowing of creative juices and busy artisans. With delicious food, a new supermarket and world class after work cocktails, it is the spark that keeps growing, feeding the fire that is Green Heart of Kenya.

This is our incubation space, where small businesses can land and find their feet before they expand into the bigger brother.

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