New city to be built in North Sinai: Bir al-Abed mayor

CAIRO - 18 January 2017: The state had set a plan to develop North Sinai governorate, starting from Bir al-Abed City. The city’s Mayor Nasrallah Mohamed Nasrallah revealed to Egypt Today the updates on prospective projects.

Establishing a Community Development Corporation (CDC)

The Egyptian Federation of Investors Associations agreed on founding a CDC to serve the city and surrounding villages through donations by Bir al-Abed residents. The decision was made few days after a delegation of investors in the federation visited the city earlier in January.

CDCs usually focus on the activities concerned with economic development, education, community organizing, and real estate development in a specific geographic area.

New Bir al-Abed City

The committees in charge of conducting land surveys in order to build the New Bir al-Abed city, stretching on 190 feddans (194,750 acres) northern the current city, will start work by the end of this month. The first phase of the New Bir al-Abed City consists of 5,000 residential units, green areas, and all necessary facilities.

The New Bir al-Abed Hospital

The new four-storey hospital building will be inaugurated soon after receiving all equipment. It had cost LE180 million and consists of 82 beds, eight intensive care units, four operating rooms, an incubator for newborns, outpatient departments, and two dozens of departments. Many roads around the building have been paved and connected to other roads to facilitate reaching the hospital.

The total area of Bir al-Abed City and the 24 surrounding villages is 3,857 square kilometers encompassing 91,876 residents, and extending from Port Said and Ismailiya governorates in the west to Arish city in the east bordering the Mediterranean in the North and Al-Hasana city and surrounding villages in the South.