Port Louis Smart City

Regenerating the City as an economic driver

Gaetan Siew
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Chairperson, SLDC

Port Louis Smart City

The Port Louis Smart City Concept plan is a series of projects driven by private sector under the general control of Government to meet the objectives set to elevate
Mauritius and place it on the world map, and solve the many issues in the cultural, urban, economical and societal fabric.
We recognize that cultural identity is a matter of being as well as becoming, and thus it belongs to our future as much as our past. Ultimately, our structures in Port Louis
are the visual narrators of our history and will stand long for centuries to come. We thus take inspiration from the communitys identity in the city to shape our designs, and
in so doing, bring back glory to Port Louis and their people.
This plan presents an idea of cohesion and societal integrity that looks at a myriad of components as listed in this document. The series of independent projects in Ward
IV, Champs de Mars, Plaine Verte, China Town, Aapravasi Ghat, the Water Front, and others as presented have for converging objective the increase in the livelihood of
the populace and advocates for societal equity.

BOOST THE ECONOMY

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Integrate the Port Expansion and new maritime activities.
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Develop the tourism potential of the Capital ( 600 000 visitors)
o
Connect the City to the sea and enhance the seafront economic
development potential
o
Boost investment Rs 52 billion from local & international private
sector
o
Job creation 12 000 by 2020
o
Unlock the development potential of Aapravasi Ghat Buffer zone and
Chinatown
A DYNAMIC INTELLIGENT GREEN CITY
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Promote energy savings through the DOWA project
o
Showcase the LAVIMS project for Port Louis financed by the EADSAirbus proposition
(Security Energy 25% savings Water 80% savings
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management)

QUALITY OF LIFE
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Alleviate Port Louis traffic management ( 40% decrease / 2 000 parking nos)
o
Resolve the Hawkers issue (2 000 units)
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Create 8 000 residential units in the city
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Improve quality of life for 191 000 voters.
AN INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED CULTURAL CITY
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Promote a new leisure and cultural offer for the Mauritian population and
tourist visitors
o
Place the City on the world map with the Louvre offer, the Aquarium and the
Theme Park.
o
Showcase Port Louis as a model to be replicated to our towns and villages
and to the African Continent.
By 2020, Port Louis will provide an excellent framework for high quality of life, with proud
citizens rooted in intelligent, human and safe environment, access to nature and favourable
conditions to business.

Port Louis / La Capitale

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B.
C.
D.

Politique / Economique / Judiciaire

Culture
Lieu de vie
La mer

Project Driven - Acupuncture

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Re-affirm its capital dimension

Re-connect with the sea
Connect the Heritage
Infuse Life
Tame Mobility
Smart the City
Celebrate the city
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Re-affirming its capital dimension

New landmarks

New arts district

New culturally active + vibrant structures

Connection with the sea

Connect the heritage, infusing life, Celebrating the city

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Hotel du government
Trsor / PMO
Casernes des pompiers
La cour Supreme
Cathdrale St james
Les Casernes Centrales
Gare Chemin de Fer
Les Casernes Decaen
IBL
Thatre de Port Louis
Cathdrale St Louis
LEveche
Le march Centrale
La Jummah Mosque
Le Grenier
LHopital Militaire
Aapravasi
Ghat
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La Citadelle

1.
2.
3.
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13.

World heritage day

Festival Crole
Musiques du monde
Semaine de la Francophonie
La fte de toutes les danses
Saveurs et Senteurs
Semaine de la Mode
Les Mtiers Traditionnels
Le Monde de la Mer
Les Mtiers dArt
Fte de la lumire Divali
Contes Posie
Fte des Couleurs

Taming Mobility, Smarting the City

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Wifi
enabled city

Smart Water
Management

Smart Energy
grid

Smart Traffic
Management

Smart City
Management

Smart Waste
Management

IoT
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Open air art galleries

Water Taxi
Bicycle
Walkable city
Jogging tracks

Aapravasi Ghat Buffer zone

Paved walkable roads

CULTURA L

&

ARTS

DISTRICT

Chinatown

Identity
& Character
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.

Victoria bus terminal

Overhead platform
Commercial building
Commercial building
Mixed use (Resl + Comcl)
Marina
Commercial

H. Commercial + offices
I. Hotel + residential
J. Mixed use
K. Mixed Use
L. Commercial + offices
M. Aquarium
N. Theme park

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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.

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Immigration Square Terminal

Overhead platform
Cultural Arts District
Mixed use development
Marina
Mixed use development

EADS (Airbus) + Smarting the city

$
$

Shareable data streams from Government

Open Data Cloud

Government

Smart
City 1

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Smart
City 2

Smart
City 3

Port
Louis

Working
Structure
Concept Plan
Cahier de Charges

SPV Consortium
Caudan & Co - SPDC

Waterfront

Victoria Stn
Immigration Stn

EADS

DOWA

City
Celebration

A.Ghat
Buffer
28 A

Port Louis

Building
Cooling

Ex: PORLWI
by light

No Land

No Land

CT

WT

Chinatown Trust

WAQAFF Trust

Chinatown
Regeneration
28 A

MOH

Private 100%

Private 100%

No Land
Open Data
(Port Louis)

SPV
Private 100%

Municipality PL -%
RDA (decongestion) -%
SPV
-%

Private 100%

Private 100%

Private

Private 100%

Private

Implementation

SPV

SPV

CT

WT

EADS

Sotravic

Private

Management

SPV

SPV

CT

WT

EADS

Sotravic

Private

Dividend

Dividend

Dividend

Dividend

Dividend

Dividend

Dividend

Land

SPV
Private/ SPDC

Finance

Return on
12
Investment

Timeline
2016-1

2016-2

2017
Granary

01

SPV

SPV

SPV

Immi Sqr

Patios

Arts district

Chinatown + A.Ghat
Smart Energy/ Water/ Council/ Waste/ Traffic management

04

EADS (Smarting the city)

Ex: PORLWI by Light

05

City Celebration (All year round every year)

2019
Theme Park

Bus Terminals
Pedestrianisation

03

Aquarium

Waterfront
Vic Stn

02

2018

2020

2021

Urban Regeneration Scheme

Grand Gaube
Triolet

Goodlands
New Smart Cities

Port Louis

Centre de Flacq

BB/RH
Flic en Flac

Quatre Bornes

Curepipe
Phoenix
Mahebourg

Chamarel

Bel Ombre

Souillac
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Smart Mauritius
Boosting existing territories + New cities

Political Mileage
Job Creation
Winning Support for Change
Support from 20 Constituencies
Quality of life
Less accidents
Walkable fabric
Cultural + Artistic vibrancy
Opportunities for the youth

Whats in it for the city?

Job Creation
2016 : 3,000
2018 : 5,000
2020 : 12,000

Value Creation
Rs 52bn

Housing Relief
Young affordable units
8,000 Units

Sustainability &
Resilience
25% < Energy usage in 5 years
80% Water usage improvements

Enhanced Tourism
600,000 Visitors

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Quality of Life

More Green Space

Better social integration
Walkable networks

Traffic Congestion
Relief
+100% parking
40% Traffic decrease

Political Mileage

191,000 Voters
Hawkers issue resolved
4 Constituencies

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago,

The second best time is now.

Merci
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