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Never Too Many Presidential Palaces.

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Never Too Many Presidential Palaces.

There is the Heliopolis one – 700-1200 rooms – few photographs of its interior, a former hotel, protected by missile batteries and several thousand Presidential Guards/Republican Guards, dozens of Military clubs, military owned hotels, military select schools, military residential compounds, military shops offering cheap/tax free goods to the military and military hospitals not available to any conscripts that are 60-70% of the Army.

Tourists can go on a guided tour – of the White House but never the Egyptian Presidential palace – except in chains.

There is also the Presidential Palace in Alex which is, unfortunately, close to the less than fragrant water and now faces docks to its south. On a positive note its surrounded by gun emplacements and tanks and entirely cut off from all human contact. Here is an angle of Ras al Tin not often seen:

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The 400 room Koubbeh/Qubbah Palace in Heliopolis is meant to be an official guest house but no one has stayed there in decades so I suspect its being ‘used’ by friends. Obama spent a few hours there but wanted a toilet that flushed.

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Its suitability for short visit guests is lost on me:
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It has immense gardens all of which, along with the Palace, are always closed to the taxpayer who pays for them. Close by is an Army shop offering cheap products to the Army, Army hospitals, the Armed Forces College of Medicine – best to avoid, Army schools and many Army clubs.

Of course the Montaza Palace is now a not very interesting museum that few go to but the Junta found a use for the adjoining Salamek Palace that has been turned into a hotel/casino, without tender, run by people who have real skills in getting bad reviews and accelerating the building’s collapse. I think I know who really runs it and they are people with relevant uniforms.

The creatures got their wish and the Supreme Antiques are throwing truck loads of taxpayers money into its redevelopment probably followed by a new lease to ‘old friends’ What the Supreme Antiques are doing in the hotel and casino business is anyone’s guess. Ask Hawass.

Here is what it looked like after years of care:
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There is to be a new Presidential Palace in keeping with Republican and Democratic values. Its al al Alamein and no cost has been spared whilst taste and responsibility have been abandoned. Lets hope the Israeli Navy can’t destroy it. Maybe the new Russian missile systems will protect it although I think that the rising sea level might be a bigger threat :
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Big is better is the regieme's motto - together with badly and quickly built and tasteless/an Egyptian architect.

The huge $US10-20 billion overall development has tried to attract investors, might have got one or two, but seems to be mainly state managed and debt funded – as always. The target population is 3 million which seems a lot for a tourist development. The government contradicts itself in saying there will be 10,000 residential units maybe each will have 30 residents. As well ‘the city will have an archaeological area consisting of an open museum, international park, recreational area, hotels, and port services, in addition to a mosque, opera, clubs, and shopping malls.

Meanwhile, it will cover an urban sector consisting of a university and regional service centre’. Yet there is no developer attracted by all el Dorado. https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/08/19/t ... ull-swing/

Here is another architects drawings – maybe just a draughtsman:
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If you want to develop a beach resort you begin with a good beach. There must be 10,000 better than this one.

One good thing about this new Palace is that like Heliopolis its entirely cut off from the world and surrounded by only like minded people. Why you place a Presidential Palace in a commercial beach development defies logic. Maybe the Spanish President should have a Palace at Ibiza, or for the Greeks at Santorini. Queen Elisabeth at Bournemouth.

The government, which is skilled in tourism and urban development through 70 years of unmitigated disasters, aims for a Dubai style development for which they might need Egypt’s 28th International airport to compete with Dubai convenience. It will be best to keep quiet about the close-by nuclear reactor, hope the Libyan terrorists go away, ignore water and dust storm problems and the very boring beach. A national airline that doesn’t kill you might be a good idea if you want to fly in other than a casket.

Here are further government drawings/doodling’s of al Alamein:

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Could it get any better?

It can for a minimum of E3 million which will buy you a small flat in this concentration camp/human filing cabinet building – no sea views. Clearly the government judges urban planning and real estate values well.

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https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com ... 245am.html

Alamein is a secretive project, rushed and sends a strong message to the Red Sea investors that the Government’s priorities are elsewhere.

One assumes that there will be a new Presidential Palace in the New Imperial Administrative (from the Latin for managed – who does that well in Egypt?) Capital together with a new parliament, courts, bureaucratic offices, cabinet room, lots of military barracks and police ‘interview rooms’, new courts, subsidized housing for Junta leeches, military owned hotels, commercial and office accommodation etc. All this will have a big effect on the land values in existing commercial parts of Cairo – and a negative one. That also sends a strong message to those with investments there - the Army determines where the money is made.


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