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Discuss this article (8 Comments)Qatar's new city will be bigger than Beirut
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NEW CITY: Lusail will be bigger than Beirut when complete. (Getty Images)
Qatar’s under construction Lusail city will be bigger than Beirut when completed, the Gulf Times has reported.
The multi-billion dollar development will span 35 square km when finished, dwarfing Beirut which covers 19.8 square km, the paper said.
“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.
The first phase of the city is due to be completed in 2011. It features 17 mixed-use districts connected by a roads and a light rail network.
Qatari Diar is the project owner and the master developer.
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Who?
Posted by Greer, Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday 5 September 2009 at 14:20 UAE time
John, John, John...its obvious...you are just not thinking...
Qatar is about to embark on a new immigration drive that will see a huge influx of millionaires from around the world...lets say you have 100,000 millionaires and say a couple of staff each, on average, that should come close to the 455,000 to fill all the homes...I know they will be targeting millionaires because the people will need to be independently wealthy since they will not have anything to do...but thats a minor point, and we shouldn't concern ourselves with the details...
Posted by Greer, Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday 5 September 2009 at 14:20 UAE time
John, John, John...its obvious...you are just not thinking...
Qatar is about to embark on a new immigration drive that will see a huge influx of millionaires from around the world...lets say you have 100,000 millionaires and say a couple of staff each, on average, that should come close to the 455,000 to fill all the homes...I know they will be targeting millionaires because the people will need to be independently wealthy since they will not have anything to do...but thats a minor point, and we shouldn't concern ourselves with the details...
Khalifa
Posted by John Smith, Doha, Qatar on Saturday 5 September 2009 at 12:21 UAE time
Generally I don't reply directly to one of my comments but on this occasion I feel I have to.
In today's Peninsular and reported here: (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/566772-doha-rents-expected-to-dip-further--paper)
You can clearly see that Qatar is NOT bursting at the seems. They are building Lusail for no other reason than that they CAN.
It's a show of "will and wealth" to some how prove that Qatar has somehow miraculously bypassed the economic crisis.
It is pointless and it will remain empty no one is going to be buying in the City not with the disaster that is the Pearl, a falling population and falling rents.
Incidentally the recent population figures put Qatar's population at 1.5 million with 1 MILLION of this number being LABOURERS. Take off 200,000 locals that leaves a population of 300,000 that might need to have a home. Considering that clearly they already have a house and by could have MORE than one house if figures in the quoted story are to be believed then WHO exactly will live in this City.
Posted by John Smith, Doha, Qatar on Saturday 5 September 2009 at 12:21 UAE time
Generally I don't reply directly to one of my comments but on this occasion I feel I have to.
In today's Peninsular and reported here: (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/566772-doha-rents-expected-to-dip-further--paper)
You can clearly see that Qatar is NOT bursting at the seems. They are building Lusail for no other reason than that they CAN.
It's a show of "will and wealth" to some how prove that Qatar has somehow miraculously bypassed the economic crisis.
It is pointless and it will remain empty no one is going to be buying in the City not with the disaster that is the Pearl, a falling population and falling rents.
Incidentally the recent population figures put Qatar's population at 1.5 million with 1 MILLION of this number being LABOURERS. Take off 200,000 locals that leaves a population of 300,000 that might need to have a home. Considering that clearly they already have a house and by could have MORE than one house if figures in the quoted story are to be believed then WHO exactly will live in this City.
Comparing what?
Posted by Greer, Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday 5 September 2009 at 07:53 UAE time
Yes I have to agree with Jessy - the comparisons are completely meaningless. So what if it will be bigger than Beirut? I lived in Beirut and it was a great place to be and the PEOPLE made it that way, beside which there is the landscape - snow capped mountains coming down to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea; at certain times of the year you can ski in the snow and half an hour later, swim in the sea! Monaco - another city on the Med, historic, beautiful, and with character. Lusail will have a population only slightly less than...um...oh here's one...Luxembourg..yes...amazing...and so what? Lots of places will have a population of around 455,000 - but - and this is the amazing part - some will have even more...like...er...Luxembourg...
Why do we care that the shoreline is longer than in Monaco - I bet the shoreline in Hong Kong is longer than that...but why is the comparison made - exactly as Jessy says - there has to be a reason, a meaning, behind the comparison, there has to be a commonality that makes the comparison of some value.
Posted by Greer, Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday 5 September 2009 at 07:53 UAE time
Yes I have to agree with Jessy - the comparisons are completely meaningless. So what if it will be bigger than Beirut? I lived in Beirut and it was a great place to be and the PEOPLE made it that way, beside which there is the landscape - snow capped mountains coming down to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea; at certain times of the year you can ski in the snow and half an hour later, swim in the sea! Monaco - another city on the Med, historic, beautiful, and with character. Lusail will have a population only slightly less than...um...oh here's one...Luxembourg..yes...amazing...and so what? Lots of places will have a population of around 455,000 - but - and this is the amazing part - some will have even more...like...er...Luxembourg...
Why do we care that the shoreline is longer than in Monaco - I bet the shoreline in Hong Kong is longer than that...but why is the comparison made - exactly as Jessy says - there has to be a reason, a meaning, behind the comparison, there has to be a commonality that makes the comparison of some value.
Do some research
Posted by Khalifa on Friday 4 September 2009 at 20:22 UAE time
@mohammed Khalil, have you ever been to Qatar to say 'Why don't they learn from Dubai's mistakes'? it's not even similar and Qatar's population is bursting at the seems that there is no where to put people! Lusail city was conceived based on the demand that was there, not because they had an idea only.
@John, it was 1.6 million (announced yesterday) and .6 increased within a year! By the time it's done, you can believe that there will be people living there. Where is the oversupply of property?
Posted by Khalifa on Friday 4 September 2009 at 20:22 UAE time
@mohammed Khalil, have you ever been to Qatar to say 'Why don't they learn from Dubai's mistakes'? it's not even similar and Qatar's population is bursting at the seems that there is no where to put people! Lusail city was conceived based on the demand that was there, not because they had an idea only.
@John, it was 1.6 million (announced yesterday) and .6 increased within a year! By the time it's done, you can believe that there will be people living there. Where is the oversupply of property?
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