The publishers of Business Sense are delighted to announce that the hard copy of the tabloid will be distributed to 450 businesses in the La Lucia/Umhlanga Ridge area by Ridge Management. Ridge Management is the umbrella body in charge of five separate management associations in the La Lucia/Umhlanga Ridge region, which totals 430 hectares in extent. The management associations are: La Lucia Ridge Office Estate, Millennium Bridge Business Park, Umhlanga Ridge Town Centre, Ridgeside and Parkside.

The various associations manages the public environment’s centralised services like security, landscape and irrigation, cleaning and litter control, public lighting and others. The Associations do not manage the individual buildings within each of their precincts. As members of each Association, property owners are bound by the Rules of Association with regards inter alia construction procedures, signage and behaviour. Since 1995 when Tongaat Hulett began converting former sugarcane land to urban uses on the La Lucia / Umhlanga Ridge, the area has attracted more than 1 500 000 square metres of development.  Located approximately 20km north of Durban, Umhlanga Ridge is a holistic, mixed use development that falls within the eThekwini Municipality. 

The area continues to experience ongoing and accelerated real estate investment and has one of South Africa’s fastest-growing urban development nodes. Over the last five years, many key businesses having moved their regional head offices to the area. These include Unilever, Standard Bank , First National Bank, Old Mutual, Deloitte, Shepstone & Wylie to name but a few.


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