2012 is likely to be the tipping point for the Gulf’s most ambitious real estate project. If the good results continue, and companies carry on signing up to take advantage of the transport infrastructure coming online in 2013, then KAEC looks set to snowball. But when will the city be fully completed?
“Our target is 2025,” says Al Rasheed. “The city won’t grow in a steady manner, like New York, for example, which grows at around two to three percent every year. We have already attracted 12,000 jobs in the last three years — so the growth that will happen in the next five years will be massive.”
