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The Lusail Real Estate Development Company has said that its iconic waterfront development, underway in Doha’s north, will be bigger than Beirut when completed and accommodate close to half a million people.
“The future city of Qatar”, as the chief executive officer Mohamed bin Ali al-Hedfa calls it, is also right “on schedule to meet the hopes and aspirations of the nation”.
The area of Beirut is 19.8sqkm while the Lusail development will be spread over 35sqkm. The first phase of the multi-billion dollar project is expected to be completed in 2011.
“The population of 455,000 in Lusail will rival that of Luxembourg City which has a population of 491,000. Additionally, Lusail’s waterfront of 28km will be seven times longer than that of Monaco which has a shoreline of only 4.1km,” the company said in its first issue of Lusail Newsletter.
Among Lusail’s population of 455,000 the development envisages, 200,000 will be residents living in its 25,000 residential units, 165,000 will work at different districts and 90,000 will be visitors to various entertainment and recreation facilities.
“Our vision and progress (for Lusail) have attracted attention all over the world. And so it should. After all, the future city of Lusail is where Qatar’s imagination comes to life,” al-Hedfa noted.
With its 17 mixed-use districts, the city will boast its own Light Rail Transit (LRT) network – “the most advanced in the Middle East”. LRT will operate on four lines around 32 passenger stations, and beyond Lusail to the New Doha International Airport via the proposed Qatar Railway system.
“The preliminary design of the project has already been completed.”
In addition to LRT, a Lusail highway and marina bridges, the city will have additional access points with the Al Khor Highway on the western boundaries and water taxis serving the districts on the eastern side.
Qatari Diar, the project owner and the master developer, appointed Qatari Diar Vinci Construction (QDVC) in February to excavate the tunnels for LRT
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“The future city of Qatar”, as the chief executive officer Mohamed bin Ali al-Hedfa calls it, is also right “on schedule to meet the hopes and aspirations of the nation”.
The area of Beirut is 19.8sqkm while the Lusail development will be spread over 35sqkm. The first phase of the multi-billion dollar project is expected to be completed in 2011.
“The population of 455,000 in Lusail will rival that of Luxembourg City which has a population of 491,000. Additionally, Lusail’s waterfront of 28km will be seven times longer than that of Monaco which has a shoreline of only 4.1km,” the company said in its first issue of Lusail Newsletter.
Among Lusail’s population of 455,000 the development envisages, 200,000 will be residents living in its 25,000 residential units, 165,000 will work at different districts and 90,000 will be visitors to various entertainment and recreation facilities.
“Our vision and progress (for Lusail) have attracted attention all over the world. And so it should. After all, the future city of Lusail is where Qatar’s imagination comes to life,” al-Hedfa noted.
With its 17 mixed-use districts, the city will boast its own Light Rail Transit (LRT) network – “the most advanced in the Middle East”. LRT will operate on four lines around 32 passenger stations, and beyond Lusail to the New Doha International Airport via the proposed Qatar Railway system.
“The preliminary design of the project has already been completed.”
In addition to LRT, a Lusail highway and marina bridges, the city will have additional access points with the Al Khor Highway on the western boundaries and water taxis serving the districts on the eastern side.
Qatari Diar, the project owner and the master developer, appointed Qatari Diar Vinci Construction (QDVC) in February to excavate the tunnels for LRT
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