It lies on the extension of King Abdullah highway. It\u2019s bordered to the east by King Fahd road, to the south by the northern ring road, and to western and northern sides by the specialized road.<\/p>\n
Construction started on the project in 2007, the King Abdullah FInancial District comprises 59 Skyscrapers erected around the area.<\/p>\n King Abdullah announced on the project inauguration that it will be the first of its kind in the Middle East. The project construction took place on a number of phases; the first phase included the establishment of 16 towers, hotel, and a mosque stretching on a space of 592.555 square meters.<\/p>\n The second phase consisted of 44 towers between office, commercial, and residential towers scattered around 30 land plots.<\/p>\n The third phase was about laying down the project\u2019s infrastructure including finalizing facilities attachment to the center units, in addition to paving inner and outer roads to facilitate traffic and transportation in and out of the center. The project cumulative construction cost reached 30 billion SAR.<\/p>\n The building architecture of King Abdullah Financial District relied on the highest international standards of design and architecture. The building theme was designed to mingle between the traditional local building trends and the latest international fashion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mobility around\u00a0King Abdullah Financial District is facilitated through an inner monorail enabling easy transportation and offers its passengers the chance to view the center\u2019s architecture and designs brilliance.<\/p>\n Pedestrians are able to move about King Abdullah Financial District and shift from a tower to another using hanged air-conditioned tubes. The tubes cumulative length is estimated at about 11,400 meters.<\/p>\n KAFD will have also a special metro station that lies as a part of King Abdulaziz General Transportation Project in Riyadh. The station lies in the orange route which links between the center and King Khaled International Airport.<\/p>\n The project includes a set of amenities and facilities which aims in principle to satisfy residents\u2019 needs. Facilities projects in KAFD include Al Wadi Park, aquarium, conference center, environment museum, science museum, and spa.<\/p>\n It will encompass seven mosques architected to implement the traditional Islamic design, besides open gardens and considering the aesthetic aspect of the whole project.<\/p>\n The district will have a financial academy to offer training courses and a wide array of educational services in various financial majors for whoever wants to apply.<\/p>\n Also, many domestic financial institutions have uncovered their intention to open new branches or move their headquarters to the center including SAMBA Bank, Banque Saudi Fransi, and The Arab National Bank.<\/p>\n Major insurance companies, brokering\u00a0agencies, consulting and accounting firms are studying reserving unique locations for themselves in the King Abdullah Financial District.<\/p>\n King Abdullah Financial District (KAFC) is a new $7.8bn urban location that will put Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the financial map. The center will stand as a common ground business and finance field in the Middle East. It\u2019s located North Riyadh on land owned by Public Pension Agency and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[881],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17816,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/17816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weetas.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"KAFC\"](\"http:\/\/blog.weetas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639-2.jpg\" "\\"King")
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<\/a><\/p>\nConstruction phases:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBuilding architecture: \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMovement and transportation:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThe project facilities:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\nKing Abdullah Financial District companies and institutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nTo learn more about financial projects in the region see also:<\/h3>\n
Free trade zones: check the latest Economic Cities in the GCC<\/a><\/h4>\n
Prince Abdulaziz bin Mousaed Economic <\/a>City : Between ambition and reality<\/h4>\n
Silk City: What makes Madinat Al Hareer in Kuwait the next big thing?<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<\/header>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"