It is also the site of Cipriani College of Labour and Co-Operative Studies,[1] the Valsayn campus of the University of Trinidad and Tobago,[2] the factory of Nestlé Trinidad and Tobago Limited,[3] and has two licensed radio broadcasters, Radio 90.5 and Heartbeat 103.5.
The original stock of houses were built in the "modern" ranch style, typified by low slope shed roofs, concrete vent blocks, in situ terrazzo floors and stock aluminum sliding doors.
Some were architecturally designed, influenced by contemporary developments in North America during the forties, fifties and sixties.
Most however, were designed by owners and contractors working loosely in that mode, with those elements and features, to varying degrees of success.
As tastes and trends changed in the seventies and eighties, in step with the booming oil-based economy, the more modest homes of the fifties and sixties were joined by lavishly designed mansions, occupied by the wealthy business class of citizens.