Developement of the Bouregreg Valley
The project of managing banks of Abi Raqraq River which cover a surface of 6000 hectares aim at managing the site and developing its space with total respect to environmental conditions.This big project consists of six complementary parts especially Bab Albahr,Amwaj,Qasbah Abu Regreg,Sahrij Alwad,Almanzah Alkabir,Buhairat Assuhul.
At the beginning ,work focused on the first and second parts:
The first part:
Bab Albahr is a place meant to be an entertainment center for Sale and Rabat inhabitants and this project is considered as the fruit of cooperation between the agency of managing the banks of Abi Raqraq river and the institution of The international Crossing for Investment in Abu Dhabi.
The amount of investment in the project of Bab Albahr is 7 billion dirhams on a surface of 30 hectares. 530.000 m2 set for habitat blocks , hotels, services and public equipments, besides a group of entertainment poles in the space for Arts and Crafts. And they are formed of the following projects:
1.Performing a subway project for the urban agglomeration Rabat Sale, whose official start was given by his majesty Med VI on December 23rd, 2007, and it is part of a general strategy to rehabilitate urban public transport in the two cities. The length of the tramway rails 19km in 31 stations, and it includes two trails:
- Rail number 1 : which is considered the basic line of the project, it goes from Karima neighborhood in Sale to Madinat alirfane, and Hospital Ibn Sina in Rabat, moving through important places in the cities: Avenue Med V in Sale, Mohamed V, Alwizarat and train stations,( Sale city, Rabat city) and universities.
- Rail number 2: Joins Almohit Neighbourhood and Yaakoub Almansour (Hospital Moulay Yousef) with neighbourhood Bettanna in Sale passing through Bridge Moulay Elhassan on Abi Raqraq river.
2.Building the new Bridge Moulay Elhassan whose launch of work was given by his majesty Med V in 2007, it is distinguished on the one side by its special architecture and urban integration and on the other side by its huge shape ,hence it stretches along 1,2 km and it is formed of two parallel ways with three tracks for pedestirians and cyclists and a special track for tramway with two lines.
3.The project of Oudaya tunnel : it goes from Madarat Bab Albahr in the direction of the Cemetery of Achouhada from the side of the sea along a distance of 1022 . The creation of this tunnel aims at solving the problems of traffic which Rabat and Sale city know and to alleviate the pressure and jams in the old road.
4.The entertainment post Marina Abu Raqraq is considered one of the important projects which form an important factor of attraction. Due to its extension on a surface of 8 hectares, it can receive 350 entertaining complexes, and it is surrounded by a number of restaurants , entertainment places ,houses ,high quality hotels and tourist places like the space of Hassan Minaret ,Bab Lemrissa and the old city of Sale.
The second part:
Taking into consideration its central location between the right and the left banks of Abu Raqraq river, and its role as a linking point between estuary Abu Raqraq and Alwalja plain, this part represents the major part of the project and it is distinguished with a Mediterranean architectural design on a global surface of 112 hectares, set to establish :
- Luxurious hotels
- Shopping places.
- A museum.
- A park of 10 hectares (between the theater and the bridge).
- The large theater of Rabat with a special design on a surface of 27000 m2.