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Sources tell Bloomberg just 300,000 people will now be living in “The Line,” a 170-kilometer city composed of mirror-clad skyscrapers, by 2030. At one point, officials said 1.5 million people would live there by then.
That would put the city on a scale of, say, Greensboro, North Carolina, or perhaps Lincoln, Nebraska on a particularly busy day.
Needless to say? Not exactly the hemispheric metropolis the Prince had long yearned to construct.
The Line is the centerpiece of Neom, the city Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sought to build as a showcase of the Kingdom’s effort to diversify its economy away from oil. Foreign investments to fund the $500 billion projects have been slow to materialize, Bloomberg says.
Needless to say? Not exactly the hemispheric metropolis the Prince had long yearned to construct.
The Line is the centerpiece of Neom, the city Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sought to build as a showcase of the Kingdom’s effort to diversify its economy away from oil. Foreign investments to fund the $500 billion projects have been slow to materialize, Bloomberg says.
