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Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia
Developer: PIF

properties, leisure, commercial and entertainment amenities, as well as the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Natural Reserve, helping to establish
supporting infrastructure that emphasizes renewable energy and water a new luxury tourism destination. AMAALA will be home to more than
conservation and re-use. 3,000 hotel rooms across 25 hotels. It will also boast 900 residential
properties and retail, dining and wellness facilities. In September 2022
Mega-Projects Under Construction it was announced that more than 300 construction contracts worth
Saudi Arabia is one of, if not the most, ambitious countries in the in excess of $1.7bn have been signed to date. AMAALA is due to
world and away from the five headline giga-projects that are under complete in 2027. Its first phase, Triple Bay, is scheduled to finish in
development, there are a number of mega-projects that are also part 2024. It includes eight resorts with more than 1,300 hotel rooms
of the Saudi Arabia Vision 2030. These mega-projects are set to change and it will be a place where guests will be able to reach new levels of
not only the Kingdom’s landscape but in many cases, the day-to-day lives wellbeing with its holistic, comprehensive wellness offer.
of residents too. The Saudi Arabian government has announced plans to build a new
AIUIa is at the forefront of the Vision 2030 plan initiated by the Saudi mega project, a 400-metre-high cube-shaped skyscraper named Mukaab
government to modernise the country, with the project part of a series as part of its Murabba downtown plan in Riyadh. Set to be built to the
of major schemes to diversify its economy and raise its profile from an northwest of central Riyadh, the 19sq km development is being planned
international perspective. AIUIa is being developed as a living museum as a new downtown area for the Saudi capital city. Described as the
and a global destination for history, heritage, cultural and ecotourism with “new face of Riyadh”, it will be built around the Mukaab structure, which
an emphasis on sustainability and community-inclusivity, offering visitors will be “one of the largest built structures in the world”. It will contain
an immersive and responsible experience. The region encompasses two million square metres of shops, cultural and tourist attractions
more than 200,000 years of unexplored human history including the and have an almost full-height atrium space that will contain a spiralling
Nabataean city of Hegra, Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage tower. The Mukaab skyscraper forms part of the wider Murabba district
Site; the ancient North Arabian Dadanite and Lihyanite Kingdoms, announced by Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, chairman of
whose scripts contributed to the evolution of the Arabic language; and the newly formed New Murabba Development Company. The wider
AlUla Old Town, a stopping point for pilgrims from 1100CE. development will contain over 100,000 residential units and 9,000 hotel
Meanwhile the AMAALA mega-project along the Red Sea, in the rooms along with more than 980,000sq m of shops and 1.4 million
Tabuk province, will border the city of NEOM and The Red Sea within square metres of office space when it is fully open in 2030.

ROSHN, Saudi Arabia
Developer: PIF