By A Correspondent| The City of Gweru is set for a business turnaround as a high powered Government delegation is expected to commission various projects in the city.

The projects are aimed at empowering indigenous Zimbabweans among them a service station and the touring of workspaces for informal traders that are under construction in Mtapa suburb in Gweru.

The projects are set to create employment for Zimbabweans and will see players in the fuel and retail sectors increasing among them Energy Park Service Station.

The commissioning of Energy Park, one of the fastest growing service stations in the country follows a recent visit by National Housing and Social Amenities Minister Daniel Garwe who said local authorities should prioritise building vending stalls small to medium enterprises, to bring sanity in the informal sector.

“I would like to encourage the council to speed up the process of allocation of land for the building of vending malls and factory shells meant to benefit those who are in the small and medium enterprises. The Government has put together resources meant for the construction of vending malls, but the only hindering factor is that local authorities have not given us the land to build from and this has affected the informal sector,” he said.

Dubbed the City of Progress, Gweru has been a sleeping giant in terms of infrastructure with a proposed $30 million shopping mall at North Gate Heights along the Harare-Gweru Highway still to take off.

North Gate Heights Phase Two has 882 serviced residential stands, 67 commercial stands, a primary school and a secondary school.