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The designs are breath taking and the promise of a futuristic golfing estate is incomparable.

The stage is now set for the Hills Luxury Golf Estate groundbreaking ceremony in early May which is expected to be a grand event.

With the face of Harare and more precisely Harare West,  set to change, experts have begun to speculate that the Hills Luxury Golf Estate will be used as the signature feature in destination marketing and city branding.

Just across Solomon Mujuru Drive (formerly Kirkman) is the Liberation City under development which is also expected to bring the much-needed traffic to the area.

The Hills Luxury Golf Estate comes with a Professional Golfers Association (PGA) standard golf course that will undoubtedly be used as the main course for tours and championship matches as Zimbabweans, especially Harare residents are fast becoming golf addicts.

The golf course will bring major golf course congestion and reduce traveling times for golfers in surrounding suburbs the likes of  Mabelreign, Tynwald, Dzivarasekwa, Warren Park, Belvedere and Milton Park among others.

Situated west of Harare along Solomon Mujuru Drive and bounded by Sherwood and Harare Drive — the rebranded Hills Golf Estate promises to be the best feature in the city. 

Punctuating the green fairways lined by giant baobab trees and other indigenous tree species will be exquisitely tailored villas, premium apartments and penthouses.

It becomes the second golf estate in Harare after Borrowdale Brooke Golf Course.

Modern architecture decorates the built-up landscape that constitutes two palatial double-story penthouses that come with rooftop swimming pools affording the owners a bird’s eye view of the undulating 18-hole golf course.

The lifestyle estate that combines the live, work, shop and play concept has a shopping mall, medical centre, an old people’s home, and different sporting activities like tennis and swimming.

Property developer and WestProp chief executive Mr Ken Sharpe is upbeat with the development and reckons “Harare will never be the same with the picturesque signature development”.

“We have used the best architects and designers and married the designs with our local environment. Our aim is to ensure quality is not compromised. We are bringing the best.”

Mr Sharpe said WestProp has a departure point with other developers.

“We are a lifestyle developer. We do not develop and abandon the estate. We stay to ensure standards are always maintained,” he said.