Unpaid R3m rates bill plants seed of doubt in Cape Town’s ‘fynbos tower’

19 June 2022 - 00:00

Cape Town’s long-awaited first “living building” — a fynbos-clad 20-storey development billed as “a space to grow and flourish” — has an unpaid rates bill of more than R3m. The city has confirmed it has started “debt management action” against Avantgarde Development, the owners of 142 Bree Street...

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