This was to be Capitala's first big appearance at Cityscape. Last, week they granted the first visit to the construction site. Specially-made models were shipped in from China and a sales centre was created to handle prospective buyers ... But one night last week, their sales centre went up in flames and took out their models. It is still unclear how the fire started.
They did manage to get digital images displayed where the models would have been placed, so no one has really noticed. (See above.)
"It's just a case of bad luck," says one person close to the company. There is still a plus for the Capitala stand: They have a foosball table and a Nintendo Wii.
Photo caption: A view of Capitala's Cityscape stand. The two empty spaces would have featured expensive models of the Arzanah project manufactured in China, but a fire wiped them out days before Cityscape. Bradley Hope / The National