Duqm

The Special Economic Zone Authority of Duqm (Sezad) has granted Al Khonji Real Estate & Development SAOC (AQAR) usufruct rights to develop a tourism project that includes:

• Recreational center (AQAR club house, Diving center)
• Smart compound (Open, connected community facilities)
• Apartments (Wadi view, sea view, mountain view of modern & classic Islamic architecture typology building)
• Hotels (3 star, 4 star & 5 star – Beach front facilities)
• Wadi park, Wadi walk way & boulevard
• Luxury villas
• Stand alone villas
• Twin villas
• Natural blended – landscape & greenery
• Fully equipped – Infrastructure facility
• Dedicated – boulevard (walk way) along both banks of wadi

The agreement to this effect was signed by H E Yahya Al Jabri, Chairman of Sezad, and Mohammed Al Khonji, Chairman and CEO of AQAR.

The agreement comes as a part of Sezad’s efforts to encourage Omani investments within the Sultanate, in accordance with efforts of the government to diversify income sources and identify rewarding opportunities for the national private sector.

As per the agreement, AQAR was granted the right to develop the nearly RO390mn tourism and real-estate project, covering an area of approximately 661,000 sqm of land, over phases. The project is expected to create almost 4,000 direct jobs when completed.

The first phase will include a three-star hotel, which is expected to be started by the last quarter of 2020. The project also includes a commercial complex, villas and residential units, which would be offered to both local and foreign investors, making it the first project with units offered for sale in Sezad.

AQAR has stood out in the past few years as one of the leading Omani companies in the real-estate sector, and had developed and ongoing various commercial and real-estate complexes in the Governorate of Muscat, most notably Rimal 1, The Office, Office 1991 and Rimal II.

The tourism sector is considered one of the focus sectors for Sezad, due to the moderate temperatures in the area during summer. And in the past few years, usufruct agreements have been signed for a number of tourism projects in the area facing the Arabian Sea.