Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Nairobi
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Upper Hill=== {{main|Upper Hill, Nairobi}} [[File:Section of Upper Hill in 2018.jpg|thumb|left|Prism Tower in Upper Hill]] Two areas outside the Central Business District that are seeing growth in companies and office space are [[Upper Hill, Nairobi|Upper Hill]], which is located, approximately {{convert|4|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the Central Business District and [[Westlands, Nairobi|Westlands]], about the same distance from the city centre. Companies that have moved from the Central Business District to Upper Hill include [[Citibank]], and in 2007 [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola]] began construction of their [[East Africa|East]] and Central African headquarters in Upper Hill,<ref>{{cite web |last=Kenya Broadcasting Corporation |title=Vice president Moody Awori urges investors to market the country |publisher=kbc.co.ke |url=http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=43359 |access-date=28 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626195053/http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=43359 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=26 June 2007}}</ref> cementing the district as the preferred location for office space in Nairobi. The largest office development in this area is [[UAP Tower]], completed in 2015 and officially opened for business on 4 July 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/Kenyas-tallest-building-rises-above-office-pace-glut/539552-3279514-nuf1b1z/index.html|title=Kenya's highest building opens for business|website=Business Daily|access-date=2019-03-16|archive-date=25 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725004624/http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/Kenyas-tallest-building-rises-above-office-pace-glut/539552-3279514-nuf1b1z/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a 33-storey tower 163 meters high. The World Bank and [[International Finance Corporation]] (part of the World Bank Group) are also located in Upper Hill at the Delta Center, Menegai Road. Earlier on, they were located in the Hill Park Building and CBA Building respectively (both also in Upper Hill), and prior to that in View Park towers in the Central Business District. To accommodate the large demand for floor space in Nairobi, various commercial projects are being constructed. New business parks are being built in the city, including the flagship [[Nairobi Business Park]].
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Nairobi
(section)
Add topic