The Middle East nowadays (dismiss the fact that there have been numerous uprisings and so on in the past year or so) is quickly expanding its infrastructure and economy and each individual nation is developing numerous projects. There are so many projects going on around the Middle East these days you wonder where they get the money. Then you remember that there are plenty of natural resources such as oil and uranium located in the Middle Eastern region.
One project that caught my attention was Abdali. It is a new business district located in the middle of Amman. Basically what this project consists of is a series of skyscrapers and business parks and so on to take on the expanding economic image of the nation as a whole. Amman is quickly becoming one of the regional spots for starting up businesses and so on and its economy has been expanding incredibly. In order for them to accommodate the expanding business sector of the nation it is imperative for them to start developing a new image to the city. In fact when you look at rendering of the project itself you can tell that it is in the older downtown area (I don't know why they would do so). So they need to knock down older buildings and so on in the area just to put up new skyscrapers.
What is in these skyscrapers? Hotels, apartment complexes, business hubs and so on. And on the ground floor you will find malls and all that stuff. Yes the necessary things that tend to attract the tourists. I'll attempt to refrain from exhibiting any discomfort only because I want to talk about the project itself. So, other than the skyscrapers and so on that necessarily are a few years late, what else is in these skyscrapers? Look, I support expansion but I don't support meaningless expansion. Amman, I think, is a different story though only because I like the city a lot. But Amman insists on developing an infrastructure that models that of European or whatever models. And when I say it like that it does sound like I'm uncomfortable with expansion. Nonetheless I don't know another approach to developing a more modern infrastructure for the Middle East.
One project that caught my attention was Abdali. It is a new business district located in the middle of Amman. Basically what this project consists of is a series of skyscrapers and business parks and so on to take on the expanding economic image of the nation as a whole. Amman is quickly becoming one of the regional spots for starting up businesses and so on and its economy has been expanding incredibly. In order for them to accommodate the expanding business sector of the nation it is imperative for them to start developing a new image to the city. In fact when you look at rendering of the project itself you can tell that it is in the older downtown area (I don't know why they would do so). So they need to knock down older buildings and so on in the area just to put up new skyscrapers.
What is in these skyscrapers? Hotels, apartment complexes, business hubs and so on. And on the ground floor you will find malls and all that stuff. Yes the necessary things that tend to attract the tourists. I'll attempt to refrain from exhibiting any discomfort only because I want to talk about the project itself. So, other than the skyscrapers and so on that necessarily are a few years late, what else is in these skyscrapers? Look, I support expansion but I don't support meaningless expansion. Amman, I think, is a different story though only because I like the city a lot. But Amman insists on developing an infrastructure that models that of European or whatever models. And when I say it like that it does sound like I'm uncomfortable with expansion. Nonetheless I don't know another approach to developing a more modern infrastructure for the Middle East.
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