The area is at the heart of the East Village, with blocks of five-story buildings, most comprising four stories of residences with businesses on the ground floor including Indian restaurants, real estate offices and clothing stores.
We pull through a string of sleepy residences to Daniela Bega's restaurant and farm.
Private firm Campus Living Villages will manage the residences.
Build a sports city (150 acres), public buildings including museums, convention centres and financial towers (375 acres), theme parks and water worlds (230 acres), affordable housing (395 acres), commercial complexes and residences, and gardens (100 acres).
Belying its derelict appearance, the port area is densely occupied by small industries and residences, legal and otherwise.
This will only increase the bias we have towards putting your money in a house, to inflating potentially the value of housing, without dealing with the lack of housing, which is driving up the value of private residences".
Many students live on campus in dedicated MBA residences.
No carrier in its right mind would then dig trenches to lay fibre to individual residences when it could beam data cheaper and just as speedily to all and sundry from cell towers.
She says this includes the interception of her e-mail and telephone communications, surveillance of her private residences and "visits" paid to friends who had frequented her home.Mrs Kumaratunga said she has serious reason to be concerned about her own safety.
And this is only part of a backlog at all four state residences that could run to £32m.
Mr Mubarak remains in prison only because one dogged government whistle-blower, since demoted, kept receipts revealing the diversion of some $20m of tax money into refurbishing private presidential residences.
