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4 vehicles. The project is expected to become a major income provider for rental.
Today Beirut city center is a livable area with a state of art infrastructure including a fiber optic broad band system for telecommunications and enhanced by high quality open space, landscaped streets, pedestrian areas, where traditional residential neighborhoods are re-emerging as urban villages at the periphery with other residential quarters emerging elsewhere in the center and on the waterfront. A heritage trail links
historic buildings and archeological sites. Retained buildings, which were restored and their interiors modernized, are ready to receive local and international companies while a steady stream of new owners and tenants has moved into the city center and hundreds of business companies, shops and restaurants have already settled there. Many new development projects have been completed by SOLIDERE and new investors including offices and residential buildings.
Development will continue over the next �
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