Private sector developers and financiers are being offered the chance to develop a 1,000-home residential project in northern Muharraq, the first of several under government's new Public Private Partnerships (PPP) initiative. According to the GDN, work is set to commence on the project this summer, with residents moving in by the end of 2008.
More than 5,000 people will be given homes in this community, the paper reported.