EkoAtlantic

• Opportinies:


  • Home to a quarter of a million and employ 150,000 more
  • positive multiplier effect > more employed > more spending > more tax money > more investment
  • stands on 10m sqm of land reclaimed from the ocean and protected by an 8.5km long sea wall
  • own power, sewage and water system
  • 10.2km long waterfront promenade
  • citywide bus network
• Problems:

  • too separate from main city of Lagos that it will not help much with their issues
  • increase erosion in adjacent areas
  • destroy marine habitats
  • increase socioeconomic divide
  • displacement of slum dwellers