 Welcome to Ghana this is a beautiful side of Ghana and most of you have not seen this side on TV or anywhere else so developed skyscrapers really nice roads it's totally lit up at night wow makes me proud to be now Ghanaian I feel like you're more Ghanaian than most Ghanaian I know right The fact that you're promoting Ghana to the world I think we need to give you those flowers Oh Ghanaians give me my flowers But you know what? This place deserves it I mean Because it really stands out to be honest Where do I even start? Do we talk about how lit it is at night Do we talk about how the roads are really good Do we talk about the skyscrapers Do we talk about the security you feel when you You feel like this place is so international And this is the place that welcomes you when you land in Accra Wow I mean The first time that you landed in Ghana Which airport did you use? Potokka International Airport And will you believe that before 2000 This place was a forest The only building that existed in here was just The airport Not the one that we landed in But we had an airport that was built by Kwamun Krumah No way Currently the new airport that we're using Is still Ghana's money But the whole of this place that you're present Was a forest Before 3000 Wow That's why it's developed so fast It shows that Ghana has changed So I mean Those of you who have never been to Ghana since 2000 Definitely when you land in Ghana You'll be like is this the same Ghana that I left? Wow It's a group of people Who came together to form this city A collaboration with the government So whatever building that you see in here Has nothing to do with the government It's more like a private owned building And there are so many And they are concentrated in this area And it just looks so developed It's so impressive you guys Would you say this is the richest area In terms of square food You remember when you went to South Africa Yeah the richest square food was called Santic Would you say this is the same for Ghana Because of the buildings that you see in here Look at the building behind it Because it's the pineapple building That's amazing And then I love how it's lit up at night It just lights up It's incredible It's more like emphasis in there So you can literally rent it And then be in there And then the designs are just so unique How pineapple structured building That's so creative You don't get that every day And they are all around here There's one coming up here The entire revolving hotel It's a revolving restaurant It's one of the buildings that is so unique Even though it's abandoned at the very moment I don't know what happened If the owner is watching this video Please let me know why you abandoned this building And listen This place It's extremely beautiful Anytime that I walk in here I wish the entire country Would look like this The rest of Ghana Needs to learn from the airport city And the reason why the airport city Is one, developing every single day Because it's managed by a group of people So you know sometimes When you give project to the government At the end of the day, people knowing that This is coming from the government They need to be paid by the government They don't take care of it But if it's a private entity Every developer needs to make sure that their This city looks like this Incredible But I think I need to educate people more About this place Believe me, all I know is what I read on the internet So maybe tomorrow morning What I'm going to do is to go meet the president Of the entire city And talk to him I think that will give us a lot of information Because I have so many questions I have so many questions So let's do this We have to do this man Let's look at the night view of the airport city In Ghana Let's start by showing them this building Look at this building Look at that building Look at this one behind Look at this one up here Look at this one Oh my God This is fantastic Welcome to airport city Airport city is the uptown of Akra, Ghana You have the downtown and you have the uptown This is where all the commercial real estate Is in Ghana This building has all the full services Including the back up generators The back up water And first class International standard buildings So if you want to be a mover And shaker Not only in Ghana, but in the Star of Ghana, the center of Africa This is where you want to be Airport city Akra As we say Hello Mr President, good to see you Good to see you You guys have done an amazing job Thank you very much, but for me I don't like Excellency I am the Kuiku Kalmoni Kuiku? Kuiku Kalmoni, yes You were born in Ghana? Yes, I was born in Ghana How do you think you can be called the Kuiku? It means when is they born And when is they born we are smart people I agree Who likes to be born when is they born But it's a pleasure meeting you Listen, my first question is Since you are the president Of the airport city association Does it mean that you own a property in here? Yes, absolutely All the members of the airport city association We are owners of the building I am the owner of Silver Star Tower You see here The recent that I did Was this place used to be a forest So in the year 2000 The government did an auction And we got two pieces of land And we built Silver Star Tower one And other offices came up Because of this this became the uptown You have the downtown and now we have the uptown Of Ghana Does it mean that this is with the collaboration With the government or you own the land fully? No, we own the land fully But the government did the urban plan That they don't want bungalows here They want all of us to have Mid-Rise and High-Rise And that's what we did And as you see we do have Mostly office space but we do have Hotels We have the Holiday Inn And we have the Marriott which is complete And the other office buildings And other hotels coming up I want to know if you can Tell me what is so unique about the airport city Wow, that's a wonderful question The uniqueness of the airport city That you have 29 acres Of prime land Which have all the New buildings all in one location They are not dispersed at different places And as you look here You see the buildings are all nice Modern tropical design So this is wonderful And especially when you come At night you think you're not In some forest Anymore, you are now in the Wakanda Of Africa I'm in the city myself And I have so many questions Which means that The airport city association Manage the city now Yes, we manage the city The original management was Ghana Airport Company But we are helping them And four years ago we started The city called the Airport City Association And some of the things we work on We work on gutter cleaning Security First, Atlantic We have sidewalk at Silver Star Tower And we want to encourage all our members To build sidewalks because walking Is healthy and good Is there any available land at the moment No, all the lands have been Sold out But for people who are interested I heard from Kokon Sa That there is an airport city too So maybe you can see my friends At the airport for airport city too So this is a private city The airport city one is a private one It's not private, it's government But the government sold it to individuals To build So airport city too will also be sold To private citizens to build So they manufacture or they do the master plan And they say this area We want office, this area We want hotel, this area We want maybe an apartment After the government sold the land to you Does it tell you the kind of building That you need to build in here They only tell you about the zone But you decide on whatever design You want to do and the height You can decide to make it five stories High or ten stories high But obviously since the land is prime You want to build something very nice On an international level Now that you're talking about something high What's the tallest building in here The tallest building here is The Amwa building over there Which is incomplete I'm sure according to him His problem is parking He has 200 parking but he needs More parking And he's waiting for government To build parking lot for him But I don't know why you need to wait for government You have to do your own parking But I think there are so many incomplete buildings Within the city by the way Basically there's about three Incompletive, you have this building And there's also a hotel Coming up which is incomplete As well but the rest of us We have finished We have finished and airport city Is working well for the people who are here What is the most unique building In the city? The most Unique building? For me I think My building is the most unique Even though it's the oldest building We have refurbished it We put the new aluminum composite panel We have done a nice crown And at night time I'm sure you see The blue light Another unique building is This one? It looks like a pineapple The pineapple building The pineapple building And then you have Evis And then another interesting building Is Atlantic Towers It's also interesting With Marriott So in here we have four star hotel And we have a five star hotel That looks Like a revolving restaurant out there The one that I saw in Dubai So it's going to have a revolving restaurant When they finish But don't ask me when they will finish I don't know what is waiting I wanted to ask you that question But I said I shouldn't ask you You know what I have so many people that watch my videos And since you are the owner of this building Can we do an advert? Yes you can do an advert No, if somebody wants to I mean hire a space in there Oh yes They can hire space inside We have We have office space And we are unique in the sense For us we are modular So we have as little as 50 square meters And as much as 400 square meters And the building is integrated It has all the ACs We have generators We have three generators We have water reserve So when you go in Local and international companies Obviously on the 8th floor We have the Sumitomo cooperation It's one of the biggest companies Not only in Japan but the world We have shipping companies We have the Silver Star And our famous friends Lakeside Estate K Aluminum product is a specialty Aluminum company We have a concept here Sahara Energy is some of our Nigerian friends here We have Trimble We have oil and gas We have the kitchen We have our friends Royal Maroc We have EcoBank Japan Motors Silver Star and Sand Big Bank Incubator and also some more Oil and gas companies Interesting So this is the showroom Yes this is the showroom So at Silver Star tower We have banking halls and showrooms So this is the Nissan showroom So if you see here You see the nice big luxury cars V8 Because this is a premium building They only put the premium cars here So if you want the more affordable cars For Nissan you go to the graphic showroom Does it mean that they also rented Space from? Yes So Japan Motors have rented Space from us And there's another auto company Called the Silver Star Auto They are the owners for the Mercedes And the Peugeot cars Which are on the opposite side And we are very happy We are very happy that we also have banks Because obviously when you are buying a car You need your money So instead of bringing the money to the showroom You just write us a check So on this side we have the Sand Big Bank We are very happy with them And on this side behind us We have the EcoBank who are also our friends Alright I want to say thank you so much For talking to me I appreciate it So Meet W01 Francis Darzy is the Senior Intelligence Officer At Silver Star Tower This is the safest part of our car room And we have 24-7 security There are monitoring cameras There's civilians There is always a light and day Supervisor and about 80 men At each time right There's more than 80 people Which means it's so expensive To rent this place It's worth the cost bro How much For a space in here It's $25 per square meter It's pretty good So I want to know Why is it so worth it For someone to rent a place like this So I call this place the center of Ghana I'm not geographically Where the business center of Ghana Because by road You are closest to To Takradi and Kumasi as in the world You just drive enough You go to Kumasi You drive east to go to the water You drive west to go to Takradi And then you're as close to Kumasi As you are close to the UK You're helping to the plane You can actually walk from here to the airport And then you have If you have a multinational business And you have a lot of activities going on You want to be somewhere here You can manage both your inland travels And even air travels From one spot And optimize your time So it's worth it And also we have a lot of businesses here Like we have the banks in here We have the airlines in here We have the automobile businesses here So you don't really have to go out of the city To do anything you want to do We have meals So you can eat and have your lunch You can sleep So everything you want Is inside the airport city Most of them are actually in the Union So it optimizes your life Eventually Okay Thank you so much for talking to me I appreciate your time As always