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Office Fit-Out — Century City

Century City offices answer to two gatekeepers — the park's landlord and the City of Cape Town — and First Gate designs for both at once. Free initial assessment — and a fixed-scope price within two business days.

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Scope

What a Century City office fit-out covers

Three workstreams. In Century City the third has two audiences — the council and the park — which is why compliance belongs with the people drawing the office.

  1. 01

    Design

    Space planning sized to headcount and growth, concept development, finish and lighting selections, branded environments — and technical documentation detailed enough for a contractor to price line by line.

  2. 02

    Construction

    Construction delivery from programme to snag list — trades and sub-contractors coordinated, quality controlled, and the site run to the rules of an occupied office park.

  3. 03

    Compliance

    Building-plan submissions and occupancy certificates with the City of Cape Town, fire and electrical sign-offs — plus the landlord and precinct-level approvals that sit on top of the council process here.

15+

Years in Cape Town

40+

Municipal submissions since 2016

Level 1

BEE Contributor

2

Business days to a fixed-scope price

Process

How a Century City fit-out runs

  1. 01
    Step 01

    Measured survey + working session

    An as-built base of the floor, then a structured conversation about how the company runs: headcount now and at month twelve, meeting-room pressure, client-facing needs, and the shape of the hybrid week.

  2. 02
    Step 02

    Space plan options

    Two or three layouts that test how a rectangular precinct plate carries density — where the open-plan-to-private line falls, and how much growth the floor absorbs before you need more space.

  3. 03
    Step 03

    Concept, 3D and technical drawings

    Design intent made tangible: materials, finishes and lighting in 3D before a single long-lead item is ordered, then documented once, to a standard that survives two rounds of scrutiny.

  4. 04
    Step 04

    Landlord and council approvals, in parallel

    The same drawings feed both: the landlord's pack and the City's building-plan application go out together rather than in sequence, so neither wait compounds the other.

  5. 05
    Step 05

    Build to occupancy certificate

    Construction programmed around the building's access hours and the park's site rules, with the project lead who opened the file carrying it through to handover.

Scope

Where First Gate fits in Century City — and where it doesn't.

When it fits

When First Gate is the right fit in Century City

  • Office tenants between 200 and 2,000 m², with teams of 30 to 400 staff.
  • Landlords between tenants — repositioning a building for the next occupier, or testing what a vacant floor can hold before marketing it.
  • Projects where one appointment must cover the design, the build and both approval tracks — rather than three firms coordinating each other.

When it doesn't

  • You want a decorative refresh only

    If the scope stops at paint, surface finishes and furniture — nothing to redraw, nothing to approve — a smaller decorator is the more economical appointment. First Gate's work begins at the architectural layer.

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Century City is the Western Cape's largest purpose-built commercial precinct: A-grade buildings on large, regular floor plates, professionally managed office parks, and a tenant base that skews to financial services, fintech and BPO operations. The buildings are the easy part — newer stock, without the legacy compliance gaps that older buildings carry. What separates a fast move-in from a slow one here is governance: a fit-out needs the park's management onside as well as the City, and the tenants who open on schedule are the ones whose drawings anticipated both before anyone priced a wall.

Design, build and refurbishment in Century City

The floor you take in the precinct decides the engagement you need. A shell in a new building is design and build territory — layout, drawings and both approval tracks moving as one from the outset. If you already hold landlord-approved drawings, office construction prices and delivers the build on its own. And where you're taking over a previous tenant's floor, office refurbishment repositions the space for your team without paying for a full strip-out.

Before you settle on a park, put numbers to the floor. The Office Cost Calculator prices your floor area against four quality tiers and returns a realistic estimate in minutes — worth running while the lease is still negotiable.

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Why First Gate

Why First Gate in Century City

A precinct that reviews everything twice rewards the firm that only needs to draw it once.

01 / Single-team delivery

Drawings, build and submissions under one roof

Space plan, technical drawings, build programme and submissions — produced by the people who will stand behind them on site. Nothing gets handed across to a third party to reinterpret, which is where fit-out timelines usually leak.

02 / Council fluency

40+ municipal submissions since 2016

SACAP-registered, with a submission record that covers the full arc — building-plan approval to occupancy certificate — at the City of Cape Town: the statutory layer that no landlord approval can stand in for.

03 / Procurement-ready

Level 1 BEE Contributor

Verified. For corporate tenants whose procurement scoring weighs supplier credentials, this is points on the scorecard, not a badge in a footer.

Selected Work

Recent First Gate fit-outs

First Gate's completed Cape Town work. Click any project to view the full gallery.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Approval requirements differ by park and building in Century City, and the landlord's sign-off runs alongside the City of Cape Town's building-plan process. Because the same team produces the drawings and manages the submissions, both reviews work from the same documentation — drawn approvable from the start.
For an office between 200 and 1,000 m², the design phase runs four to eight weeks: brief, space plan, concept, 3D renders and technical drawings. The build is programmed from there, around the building's and the park's working rules.
Most of our commercial work sits between R500,000 and R5 million in total project value, priced on a per-m² rate against one of four quality tiers, excluding VAT. The Office Cost Calculator gives you a starting figure for your floor in about two minutes.

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