Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi has an­nounced the be­gin­ning of the con­struc­tion of high-rise apart­ment build­ings for $300 mil­lion as part of the on­go­ing San Fer­nan­do Wa­ter­front Re­de­vel­op­ment project.

Al-Rawi vis­it­ed the site on Sat­ur­day with Hous­ing Min­is­ter Adri­an Leonce, Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of TT (Ude­cott) chair­man Noel Gar­cia, con­trac­tor El­lis Kara­math of Hafeez Kara­math Ltd and oth­er of­fi­cials.

The project, he said, en­tailed the de­vel­op­ment of 120 units in the first phase and 95 units in the sec­ond phase with­in 18 months un­der pri­vate-sec­tor de­vel­op­ment.