At present it is a construction site and, as the locale of a notorious former secret police headquarters, for many Jordanians it has sinister undertones. But Amman’s Abdali district is where a highly touted new central business area is due to open next year.
The scheme, the city’s mayor says, will enable Amman to “compete with the other capitals of the Middle East”.
Abdali is one of several big projects designed to reshape Amman, a city of 2.5m which was a village of only 5,000 inhabitants when Jordan was founded as an independent kingdom in the 1920s. These projects include urban regeneration schemes and developments such as Jordan Gate (pictured above), set to be “the tallest residential towers in the Middle East”, according to Omar Maani, the mayor.
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