Developers in the Gulf have been building high-rise towers, luxury developments and artificial islands, mainly targeting high-income individuals. Yet this time, the Qatari real estate conglomerate Barwa is planning to build the world’s biggest truck park with an eye to the less fortunate construction worker. With its $750 million project the “Truck Park,” Barwa Al Baraha, a subsidiary of Barwa Real Estate, aims to secure decent housing for laborers and truck drivers who were eaten by the inflation sweeping the country. The project will include a 676,000 square meter truck parking lot able to accommodate the trucks of roughly 4,200 long distance truck drivers. The company will nominate the development for the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s biggest truck park. The project will also include accommodation for 53,000 people, dining halls and workout facilities. Barwa has also launched its Barwa Housing Program for middle and low income tenants who are carefully selected according to criteria, such as their salaries and number of children, in order to be eligible for low cost two or three-bedroom flats.
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