The stay, work, store and play customer-centric Westprop Holdings is providing its residential property prospects at Pomona City a chance of a lifetime to pay 50 p.c deposit for his or her brick necessities and luxuriate in a two-year instalment cost.

The firm is organising a US$1 million brick moulding firm to help the realisation of the one billion bricks imaginative and prescient by 2050 and to hurry improvement after encountering delays in brick supply and at occasions under commonplace bricks.

Of all its improvement tasks up to now – solely prospects at Pomona City are constructing their very own houses whereas at different developments the corporate is providing full turn-key merchandise.

Only 29 residential stands stay at Pomona phases 1B & C and 1A out of the preliminary 765 forward of the introduction of the thrilling leasehold idea subsequent yr.

The brick manufacturing unit is designed to provide bricks to WestProp tasks and with progress the corporate will then be capable to provide extra bricks to “outside customers”.

Chief govt officer Mr Ken Sharpe says the brand new enterprise is in response to market delays in delivering bricks to the corporate’s building websites and a quest to handle brick high quality.

“As of March, next year, we start production. Those bricks are pre-sold. They are going to our customers. Our customers will pay a 50 percent deposit and pay the balance in instalments over two years,” he mentioned.

The initiative is supposed to incentivise the purchasers to construct and never be burdened by paying lump sums in the direction of the bricks after which fail to purchase different constructing supplies.

The buy worth at $0.14 a brick will embrace transportation prices to the constructing website.

Speaking at a Christmas and excellence recognition awards ceremony for WestProp staff, Mr Sharpe harassed on the idea of urgency in service supply to fulfill buyer expectations.

He rallied the staff to embrace the one billion brick imaginative and prescient including that “their hands” could be printed on the achievements of the imaginative and prescient.

“Whatever we do with the billion bricks stands forever. For the test of time,” he mentioned.

Mr Sharpe reiterated his love for Zimbabwe noting that he fashioned the corporate to make a distinction and supply livelihoods to hundreds of individuals whose worth chain will depend on WestProp.

“I set up this business to be a public company. Not to enrich myself. I have enough money. I set it up so that you can benefit from it,” he mentioned.

Mr Sharpe challenged the staff to introspect and encourage themselves to attain extra for the corporate.

The plant that may manufacture WestProp branded bricks.

“Our plant will be operational in 2025. We are targeting to do our first installations of new equipment in January and February. Initially the plant’s output will be directed exclusively to our Harare projects,” he mentioned.

“The land we own requires one billion bricks which translates to US$5 billion to build. We want to be able to meet our own deadlines in terms of construction timelines,” he says.

WestProp has been on a drive to self-resource with the acquisition of yellow machines and different capital-intensive tools to keep away from hiring and delays in finishing works.

WestProp are the builders of Pomona City, Pokugara, Millennium Heights, The Hills Luxury Golf Estate, the quickly to be constructed Mall of Zimbabwe and the upcoming branded condominium lodge at Millennium Heights (block 5).

The firm’s developments embody the stay, work, store and play theme which is quick turning into the signature promoting level of all its merchandise.