Port City Colombo Completes Its Land Reclamation · Chronopin

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Starts 01/16/2019 CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCEConfirmed against contemporaneous reporting of the reclamation completion ceremony. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the reclamation of 269 hectares from the Indian Ocean".

Start: Jan 16, 201990% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Port City Colombo Completes Its Land Reclamation

Sri Lanka finishes reclaiming 269 hectares of land from the Indian Ocean off Colombo, laying the ground for the Chinese-backed Port City Colombo financial district.

Land reclamation for Port City Colombo, covering 269 ha off Galle Face Green, was completed as of January 2019^[3]
The multi-services special economic zone was established 17 September 2014 and its cost was slated at US$15 billion in 2017^[3]
It has five precincts, including the Financial District, Island Living and the Marina, with over 6.4 million sq m of new development planned^[3]
Parliament approved the Port City Commission Bill in May 2021, and the zone is governed by the Colombo Port City Economic Commission^[3]
Tax concessions were revised under the IMF programme, with new tax-holiday approvals suspended^[3]

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Confirmed against contemporaneous reporting of the reclamation completion ceremony. Happened as dated, per the source: "the reclamation of 269 hectares from the Indian Ocean".
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