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Ceylinco Developers Ltd (CDL), a member of the Ceylinco Group of Companies which are the developers of the township project titled Millennium City, set a record among local housing developers when they entered into an agreement with the Board of Investment (BoI) on February 12 to develop 30 acres, in Ja-ela where they would replicate the Millennium City township in Athurugiriya. The total project cost is estimated at Rs. 600 million with 250 houses being built.

Chairman Ceylinco Group Lalith Kotelawala together with CDL's Deputy Chairman Bandula Ranaweera, signed the agreement on behalf of CDL, along with BoI Director General Arjuna Mahendran. The project is fully sponsored and approved by the BoI with the resultant benefits being passed on to the consumer.

Kotelawala said they were extending the Millennium City Athurugiriya concept to Ja-ela due to popular demand and the appeal for good housing made by the people of Northern Colombo and its suburbs. "In fact Millennium City in Athurugiriya recently set an all-time sales record of selling over 1,100 houses within three years, a figure comparable with projects in Singapore and Malaysia," he said. Kotelawala said the unprecedented success they had in the Athurugiriya project, had given them the confidence and the impetus to develop yet another township on the same lines.

Millennium City Ja-ela will be built on 30 acres with each plot being over 7.5 perches, set in a green, eco-friendly environment. The types of houses that will be built at Millennium City Ja-ela will be identical to those in Athurugiriya and will bear the same branding and names.

All houses will be detached and built using quality clay bricks, imported class one timber, with clay tiles used for the roof. Initially the type of houses built would belong to the Orchid, Tulip, Olympus and Paradise categories. Only a limited number of houses would be built, with the marketing of the houses being completed within one year of the date of commencement of the project.

"We hope to complete the project itself within three years" Ranaweera said. The Ja-ela Millennium City too would be under the management of Deputy Chairman CDL Ranaweera who was responsible for making the Millennium City Athurugiriya project a reality in a relatively short period of three years.

"In fact the residents of the Ja-Ela Millennium City will benefit from our experience in developing the Athurugiriya Millennium City", Kotelawala said. Landscaped parks, 24-hour security, recreational areas and all other amenities of the Athurugiriya Millennium City will be duplicated at Ja-Ela, providing residents not only with quality housing but also a whole new lifestyle as well.

"We offered the residents of Athurugiriya a hassle free proposition, combining safety, security and a unique lifestyle and we are about to do the same for the residents of Northern Colombo, he said.

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