The old Tramways Building is located on the corner of Lower Valley Road and Baakens Street in Port Elizabeth.It is now the headquarters of The Mandela Bay Development Agency.
The building was officially opened on 16 June 1897. Then it housed a power station that provided electricity to the city’s prestigious tramway fleet and the workshops that serviced these coaches from the turn of the 20th Century.
From being a working bus shed and later an ice rink, the building was eventually abandoned and became derelict and the haunt of many vagrants. The building was recently renovated, the renovations starting in 2013.
The new building is adorned with some attractive metal murals.