I just read this in the news. Daily Times has reported the inauguration of The Centaurus, Pakistan’s first seven-star hotel project, in Islamabad.
I am left wondering what are these people thinking? Can Pakistan afford, and sustain, a 7-star hotel? Do we really need one? And what is a 7-star hotel, after all? We can barely maintain a decent 2 or 3 star hotel in our major cities. Are we now competing with Dubai for architectural grandiosity? And whoever came up with the name should probably look for a job in Hollywood…
ISLAMABAD: The Centaurus, Pakistan’s first seven-star hotel project, was inaugurated on Thursday. The $350 million complex is planned to have a 37-storey deluxe hotel, with two 21-storey residential towers, a 25-storey corporate office complex, and a 5-storey shopping mall. The complex will have a parking lot that would accommodate over 2,000 vehicles. The project will be completed in three years… The Pak Gulf Construction Private Limited company (PGCL) and Messrs Atkins engineering company – the constructors of Dubai’s renowned Burj Al Arab – are executing the project. Saudi Arabian Al-Tamimi Group and the Sardar Group of Companies are making the investment….
President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said it was “the right time to invest in Pakistan� because of the country’s positive economic policies of de-regulation, liberalisation and privatisation coupled with a liberal foreign exchange regimen. “We have opened all sectors of the economy for investment and the scourge of red-tapism and bureaucratic delays are being done away with,� said the president at the foundation-laying ceremony of The Centaurus.
Yes We Will see Offcourse yaar there should be a 7 star hotel in Pakistan but ……………………….
@ MSK: “All of us Pakistanis are always interested in India their movies, their call centers, their music, their cricketâ€
MAN i am very happy for this 7 star hotel…we really need it in pak not only in Isb but in all major cities of PAK… we must need to develop the Pak. now.Every Investment create JOB oppurtunity and make contribution in the economy so we should support all investments in PAK…
I am not sure why people have such negative sentiments about this about to be built 7 star hotel? There are rich and poor everywhere, but that doesn’t mean that until and unless the poor people are uplifted – we should halt everything else in parallel!
Malik, in reference to Arabs (Dubai?) and building useless things based on petro dollars, I would like to highlight the fact that Dubai atleast is not a petro-dollar based economy nor they are building “useless” things. If you study Dubai economy and their future plans, it will make all the sense and answer many questions.
Those wild and crazy arabs, they really know how to spend on useless things! Except they don’t have even a half decent university anywhere. Would not an investment on education, science, museums, cultural developemnt programs etc etc from these petro-dollar rich plutocrats have a far greater and longer-lived impact?