Follow up to this post
In this post about The Line, I remarked that the Saudi prince was prepared to spend "billions and billions" on the city. Clarification: he plans to spend US$1.5 trillion, an enormous amount of money, on the Neom development (of which The Line is the biggest part).
Goals for the city have been scaled back. Instead of one-and-a-half million residents in the city by 2030, they now expect 300,000 or less. The long-range city length of 170 kilometers (105 miles) is still in place, but by 2030 they only expect to complete 2.4 kilometers (1-1/2 miles) of it. The sides of The Line will still be the height of the Empire State Building.
Another part of Neom will be the Trojena resort, which is "set to host the Asian Winter Games in 2029." Yes, the winter games . . in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula. You may wonder, can they really do that? Something like that on a smaller scale does exist. My son has skied in Dubai.
Neom is a grandiose vision.
from Bloomberg
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