The New City Hall of Accra by Karim Ibrahim, Managing Director of Dream Realty

Karim Jamil Ibrahim, Managing Director of Dream Realty, talks about the new City Hall of Accra.

“Last year, we concentrated our efforts on the new City Hall of Accra, which is adjacent to the Octagon. Dream Realty took it upon its own expense to build the Accra City Hall, which was non-existent before. The AMA, which is the municipality of Accra, had some old offices very close by on High Street. But we saw the need that a city like Accra did not have a city hall which was not elegant enough for the city. After some negotiations with AMA and the government, we came up to an understanding and as a result, we built this facility with over 4,000 m² of office space, fully furnished, with an amphitheater of 300 seats, a library, and more. We just submitted it to the municipality last week. They are now in the process of moving in and the President will commission the building sometime in September. This is something that we are really proud of doing for the city of Accra and we hope that they will maintain it well. We also hope that it will promote change in that most government agency buildings in Accra have been worn out and are not up to the level of the city that they should be. So now, this is an example of what they should do. We are very happy with the collaboration we had with AMA, and we hope the new building will be very useful for them. It will probably be announced in the news in September. We are developers, we are not contractors. We do not work for a second party. We develop our own projects only. This was a gesture on our part and the new City Hall building was a part of the deal with the Octagon. This was not done to attract government projects at all. This is prestigious for the company by itself and was done to leave a mark on the city”, says Karim Ibrahim.

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