Can’t believe it is March already.
All day meeting and tour with a US construction firm assessing the market in Qatar and their entry strategy. Good meeting, tour was capped with a site visit to Lusail.
Lusail is a planned community north of Doha. It will house 200,000 people with hotels, entertainment and retail businesses. They are going to create a main road that will be the Champs D’Eleysee of Lusail. It will have a marina for 250 boats, its own Light Rail line, etc. Today it is a barren desert. The construction is all utilities and excavation. It was a great tour. Much of the work is being done by Qataridiar/Vinci Construction and a Chinese Contractor. I understand the Chinese brought 25000 workers to the project. Much of the excavation is being done by back hoe. I don’t know if it is efficient, but there were rows of equipment. In the distance it looked like a scene from Star Wars. Wow.
At lunch we went to the Souq. We all got meals made in a clay pot. The food was much like stew. Some got beef, lamb and one guy had to get the camel. On the menu it was labeled as “baby camel” I don’t know, but from watching him chew it looks like they were using the camel that lost the camel race.
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