East-West Properties PLC

- Hospitality
- Real Estate
- Construction
- Broadcast Infrastructure
- Sri Lanka Tourism
  
  Over last year five years Sri Lanka tourism has witnessed an exponential growth in tourist arrivals reaching 1.900,000 Million tourists in 2015 from 500,000 in 2009.
  
  Voted top tourism destination to visit by Condé Nast Traveller and the New York Times ,post-war Sri Lanka is poised to establish itself as leading tourist destination in the region.
  
  Sri Lanka is seeing unprecedented growth in the hospitality space with many internationally renowned brand set to enter the market, Shangri La, Sheraton and Marriott to mention a few.
  
  Weligama Hotel Properties Ltd
  
  Under the subsidiary Weligama Hotel Properties Ltd, the company started the turnkey development of , the Marriott Weligama Bay Resort & Spa, situated in Weligama Bay, Sri Lanka.
  
  The only modern high-rise resort in Sri Lanka, the Marriott Weligama Bay Resort & Spa is strategically positioned along a 115-metre stretch of pristine beachfront in Weligama Bay. The Resort will be the first in Sri Lanka to be managed and branded by Marriott, the world’s largest international hotel operator. Situated on a 35,605-square-metre beachfront site, the Property will be positioned as an upscale resort featuring 198 well-appointed guest rooms, a collection of five dining outlets, and a wide range of world-class amenities that include a spa, fitness centre, kids’ club, and extensive banqueting facilities. Benefitting from a highly prominent beachfront location, the Resort has been carefully designed to offer direct and uninterrupted sea views of the stunning Weligama Bay from all guest rooms. Each guest room is tastefully furnished and equipped with modern amenities in a generous configuration with sizes ranging from 41 to 164 square metres.
  
  The Resort is situated in the highly sought after South Western tourism belt that affords convenient accessibility to Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport and key heritage sites such as Galle Fort. Access to the Property from Colombo is via the recently completed Southern Expressway. The Property’s convenient location also provides access to the major southern cities of Matara and Hambantota as well as Sri Lanka’s renowned Cultural Triangle. Construction of the Property is scheduled to complete by December 2016 with the Property being fully operational by April 2017. Once opened, the Marriott Weligama Bay Resort & Spa will undoubtedly solidify its position as the market leader of Sri Lanka’s southwest coast.
- Real Estate
  
  Over the years the company has developed a number commercial properties most notably the development of Nawam Mawatha as Commercial hub where the company built and operated over 350,000sqft of Office space, this included the IBM building, Forbes & Walker Building, Robert Senanayake Building and also provided car parking facilities for over 600 vehicles. The company built the first multi-storey Car park with a car elevator in 1994.
  
  The company also built and operated over a 1,000,000sqft of warehousing, in the Peliygaoda area. This include the countries first multi-storey warehouse complex with a cargo elevator.
  
  East West Properties PLC
  
  In 2008 the company ventured into hospitality with the purchase of the Ceylon Intercontinental (now Kingsbury) – a 250 key hotel located on 4.5 acres of central business district. The property was subsequently sold in 2011.
  
  The company entered into a partnership with Marriott International to build a 198 Keys five star resort and spa in Weligama Bay, Sri Lanka , This property is expected to open in December 2016.
  
  East West Properties PLC currently operates over 100,000 sqft of warehousing space and 30,000 sqft of commercial office space. The company has a long standing partnership with Ultratech Cement Company India leasing the real estate on which their 4x8000 ton cement silo and bagging plant our located.
  
  The company currently owns and operates 32 apartments as services apartments at Crescat Residences located adjacent the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo premier five-star hotel. The apartments mix is made up of 1,2,3 bedroom properties and residences common facilities include a gym, spa and access to the food and beverage service of the Cinnamon Grand Hotel next door.
  
  In 2012 the company ventured into rentable self-storage units and has over 10,000sqft of space consisting of units varying in size from 25sqft to 500sqft. The company also provides logistics services for the packing and moving of items into storage.
  
  The company also owns 20 acres of prime lagoon front property in Pammunugan which is expected to be developed into luxury villa.
- Construction
  
  The Company provides a number of engineering related services which include; civil construction, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and ELV services. In addition to these services the company also specialises in the project management and procurement.
  
  Other areas of business involve water and sewage treatment plants and the operation of a network of concrete batching plants. The company has a division that fabricates doors and windows and is capable of designing and manufacturing custom built furniture.
  
  East West Engineering (Pvt) Ltd.
  
  The company over the years has developed over a 1,000,000 sqft of warehousing space with much of development focused in Peliyagoda. It has also built over 500,000sqft of commercial office space in the Nawam Mawatha business district. Its anchor tenants have included IBM Corporation and number of blue chip companies. Amongst it many achievements the company built and operated Sri Lanka’s first multi-storey car park in 1995.
  
  Its most recent project is the turnkey construction of a 198 key Marriott Resort & Spa consisting of over 300,000sqft of built space, 5 five restaurants, kitchens and a laundry facility. The total value of contract is USD45Million. This project is expected to be handed over to the operator, Marriott International in December 2016.
  
  The company is engaged in the production of ready mix concrete, operating two batching plants in Matara and Galle. The products are designed, manufactured and tested to fully comply with local and international standards. All individual materials conform to the relevant British Standards, ensuring the quality of the product. The company is also capable of producing specialist mixes for products requiring high workability and high, or early, strength characteristics. In addition to the production of ready-mix concrete the company maintains a comprehensive testing facilities for its customers.The company operates a modern fleet of 8cbm and 6cbm transit mixer trucks, stationary and mobile boom pumps.
  
  The Company also has a trading division focused on the light construction machinery and building materials.
  
  Hikkaduwa
  
  September 25 2015
  
  Sadagiri Shopping Complex, Hikkaduwa.
  
  Galle
  
  October 03 2015
  
  Sino Lanka – Galle , Ozo Hotel
  
  Karapitiya
  
  October 06 2015
  
  CECB Karapitiya Hospital Project
  
  Hikkaduwa
  
  September 12 2015
  
  Lavanga Hotel, Hikkaduwa
  
  Galle
  
  September 17 2015
  
  Damro – 5 Story Showroom in Galle
- Broadcast Infrastructure
  
  The group has been involved in broadcasting since 1994, when the company setup Sri Lanka’s first 24-hour television stations, ETV 1 and ETV2 rebroadcasting satellite television on the its terrestrial network.
  
  Content was sourced from the Star TV Network and BBC, one of the highlights for the company was the broadcasting in Sri Lanka of the 1996 Cricket World Cup when Sri Lanka the tournament. The network was subsequently sold to EAP Edirisinghe Group.
  
  The company in partnership with the Sri Sambodhi Viharaya operates the Buddhist radio and television network.
  
  People's Media Network (pvt) Ltd
  
  The company under Peoples Media Network Pvt Ltd, currently operates 2 island wide radio frequencies and 2 television frequencies in Colombo and the North of Sri Lanka. Utilising these frequencies, the company manages the island wide transmission and operations of the Buddhist Radio and TV network.
  
  The has expanded into broadcast infrastructure providing common user facilities for television and radio broadcaster. Services include the full backbone infrastructure management with N+1 redundancy. The team is also capable of designing and building broadcast studios and represent a number of world renowned vendors. The key strength of the organization revolves around the infrastructure used to create content and the transmission of that content. The core competency of the company is the management of its transmission facilities, the company currently owns and operate three transmission sites in Hunasgiriya, Karagahatenna and Bandarawela. The company’s management of its own broadcast infrastructure and the commitment to achieving 99.9% up time on its transmission sites has seen the company invested significantly in redundancy at these broadcast facilities which include but not limited to backup transmitters, backup links, generators and UPS.
  
  Over the years we have worked with many leading brands and now represent many of them here in Sri Lanka. We currently work closely with brand such as:

Sri Lanka Tourism

Real Estate

Construction

Broadcast Infrastructure