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Colombo’s changing skyline to dazzle South Asia Tear drop to get bigger and better Artist’s impression of the Port City at night Forget the changing skyline. Colombo’s Port City will have mapmakers in a tizzy as they hurry to re-draw the shape of Sri Lanka. This is the massive scope of the multi-billion dollars’ project which has drawn controversy as well as admiration. When it is fully completed, in 23 years from today, the tear drop island will have changed forever. For off the West coast, Colombo will have grown an extension with a new city rising from the water like Plato’s Atlantis. It will be at the heart of the Western Megapolis, the government’s vision to turn Sri Lanka into a high income global player in logistics, manufacturing, and information technology. It will be a vibrant Central Business District and at the same time be a much-sought after residential ...