The concept of a City Improvement District or CID is not new, and in South Africa it dates back to the early 90s.

A CID is a defined geographic area within which the property owners pay levies used to fund additional services (supplementary to those provided by the city) to maintain and manage a public space and enhance their investment.

It is thanks to the foresight of one of SA’s most prolific fruit-producing enterprises, H.L. Hall & Sons that the Riverside Park City Improvement District (CID) came into being. The visionaries at Halls first recognised this particular area’s potential for urban development back in the 1980s.

Riverside Park is a prime example of local business owners, land owners, developers and local government’s seamless cooperation in ensuring the financial success and full community support of a particular area.

Today, the bustling Riverside Park is bordered by the new N4 by-pass in the north, the picturesque Crocodile River in the east, the R37 to Lydenburg in the south, and the railway line in the west.