Raouche rumor mill

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This article is part of a continuing Executive investigation into public and private lands along Beirut’s western coast. For more stories in this series, click here. No one knows what — if anything — is coming.  Rumors about the fate of a peninsula next to Beirut’s iconic Pigeon Rocks abound, but little is known for sure. “Three companies are going to build a beach resort in 2016,” a municipal police officer now standing guard next to the parcel of land tells Executive. Like so many others who claim to know what will become of the land, he offers no source for his information. Raja Noujaim, an activist with the Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage (APLH), claims no special knowledge about future development plans. He has, however, dug into the past and checked public records for ownership of the land.  Showing Executive a cadastral map of the peninsula