LOCAL communications and advertising expert Jean Lowrie-Chin yesterday said that the new office complex being constructed by PRODEV, the real estate sister firm to ProComm, is expected to be opened in May next year.

Work on the $280-million, three-storey complex, being carried out by Islandwide Construction Limited, is well advanced.

The complex, which Lowrie-Chin and her husband and business partner Hubie Chin have named Phoenix Central, is located at 2 Phoenix Avenue in Kingston and will serve as the new home of PROComm.

Ground was broken on the project in May this year. At the time, Lowrie-Chin said that while they had grown to love their current location of over 30 years at 6 Kingsway, they had invested in the Phoenix Avenue property many years ago with the intention of moving their offices there.

“We plan to retain five of the 16 units,” Lowrie-Chin said. “As we saw the various residential developments taking place on Kingsway, we decided that the time was right to take this big step, so we hope to develop an apartment complex as soon as we move to our new location next year.”

Phoenix Central will accommodate alternative energy solutions. It was designed by architects Plexus Limited, while Berkeley and Spence provided quantity surveying services.

An artist’s impression of Phoenix Central, the new home of Jean Lowrie-Chin and Hubie Chin’s PROComm, is scheduled to be opened next May.