WestProp transform Greenwood Park

Talent Gore

WESTPROP Holdings is transforming Greenwood Park into a lifestyle theme park, providing recreational facilities for the surrounding residential communities. 

The company is working to create a live, work, shop and play environment by making the park more user-friendly, and has already installed five solar lights and increased the number of friendship benches.  

WestProp allocates 10percent of its profits to corporate social responsibility activities, supporting charities and rehabilitating community facilities. WestProp chief executive officer, Ken Sharpe, said the company was prioritising safety and responding to community needs, and hoped that the renovated park would help attract tourists to Harare.

“We prioritise the safety of the residents and park patrons. We are responding to community needs. The community has requested lighting and we are installing five solar lights,” he said

Sharpe, who led a WestProp team in the National Clean-Up campaign, said he was happy with the revamp of the children’s play centre whose facilities had completely broken down.

“Children are at the heart of what we do. We realise they are children today, but our leaders tomorrow,” he said.

“A better future for any child is shaped from infancy through the growth stages. 

“We are playing our part. Just yesterday we handed some educational books to Bromley Primary School. We have paid fees for hundreds of children this year.”

The park is now resourced with 14 friend benches, up from seven last month. 

More are expected to decorate the huge park that will soon rank as the most user-friendly multi-user park.

The decision to rehabilitate Greenwood followed a visit to the park by Sharpe last year during which he noticed that it was losing its beauty and appeal. 

“We believe that once the park is beautified, it will rekindle memories and help attract tourists to Harare,” Sharpe said.

“The park is adorned by the beautiful jacaranda trees which always come to life when they bloom purple from September to end of October.

“This is part of our giving back to the Harare community in which our business operates,” he said.