New phase of East Muharraq seafront project announced

TDT | Manama

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East Muharraq’s seafront is due for a new phase of works through a partnership with the private sector, the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture has told Parliament, with two sites on Road 65 to be turned into a leisure waterfront and public coast.

In a written reply to a question from MP Hisham Al Asheeri, the ministry said the plan follows earlier work delivered through Sama Bay, a beach project on Dry Dock Highway on the way to Amwaj Islands.

The ministry said it is pressing ahead with upgrades to waterfronts and coastlines as public spaces for leisure and for practising healthy sports, adding that the East Muharraq plan is split into stages.

It said the first stage covered Sama Bay, which stretches for up to two kilometres and includes two beaches, a retail outlet, a food-truck area, a promenade, two padel courts and a football pitch.

The second stage, the ministry said, will develop two plots on Road 65 under the same private-sector partnership model. It put the first plot’s area at 50,866 square metres and the second at 51,741 square metres.

Plans for the sites include a promenade, a cycle track, seating areas, green spaces, a play area, outdoor warm-up fitness equipment and a services building, it said.

The ministry added that preliminary designs have been completed, and that it is coordinating with relevant bodies to study listing the coastline among partnership projects.