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Msheireb ... massive project

Mandarin hotel opening in Doha delayed

DOHA, September 14, 2014

The opening of a luxury hotel scheduled to be completed in Doha, Qatar, this year, has been pushed back by two years, according to a report.

The delay is the latest signal that the massive QR20-billion ($5.5 billion) Msheireb Downtown Doha redevelopment project, in which the hotel is located, is slipping behind schedule.

The Mandarin Oriental is to be a high-end, 158-room hotel with 91 serviced apartments and is one of three hospitality projects under construction on the massive 31-hectare site in central Doha.

The hotel project, first announced in 2010, is now not scheduled for completion until 2016, a spokesperson for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group was quoted as saying in the Doha News.

As the operator of the hotel, the spokesperson said her company was not involved in the actual construction of the project. The property’s owner is Amlak Hospitality.

Amlak is a member of the Qatar Foundation and is developing three Msheireb hotels. Once completed, the buildings will take up more than 15 per cent of the 760,000 sq m of the site’s eventual built-up space, which will also include homes, retail shops and cultural space.

The other two hotels are the Al Wadi Hotel, part of Accor’s M Gallery Collection, and a 181-room Park Hyatt.
 




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