Private sector to build 2 industrial towns in Qazvin

TEHRAN, Apr. 25 (MNA) — The private sector will build two industrial specialized towns in Qazvin Province, Mohammad Baqer Aqa-Alikhani, the chairman of the province’s Industries and Mines Department said on Tuesday.

Named as Berelyan, one industrial town is to be built in Boyin-Zahra city, covering a land area as large as 200 ha, he explained. The productive and industrial units active in non-metallic minerals are to start activities in this town, he added, predicting them as much as 60 units.

He further explained that the infrastructural installations such as water, gas, and electricity have been conveyed to the town and the preliminary operations are currently underway.

The other industrial town is to be established by Iran Khodro Industrial Group (IKCO) in Takestan city. Enjoying a land area as large as 1000 ha, it is to deal with the part-making activities, he noted, putting the number of the units at 200.

He added that the IKCO has carried out the preliminaries in the town.

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a nother city.... i hope a lot of tehranies will move to this city..

Malaysian Firm Will Invest More Than US$500 MLN In Iran

Iran builds new towns with Malaysian help

Middle East Times - Sep 21

PARAND, Iran -- Iran and Malaysia Sunday launched a project to build tens of thousands of homes in new towns outside Tehran, the first such foreign investment in the Islamic republic to help it cope with booming population growth in cities.

Malaysian private company Amona announced at a ceremony that it will invest at least $500 million to build 20,000 houses in the two new towns of Parand and Hashtgerd, using about 160 hectares of space in each town.

"Iran's share in the whole project stands at 15 percent and the rest goes to the Malaysian partner," Iranian minister of housing and urban development Mohammad Saidi-Kia told reporters as the first foundations for the new homes were laid.

"Whereas Iran has only provided the real estate, Malaysia brings the total investment and engineering works," he added.

Construction of housing complexes in Parand is already well advanced, with several buildings apparently complete and awaiting their first tenants. However, this project is the first to involve a foreign company.

Iran, which is grappling with the social and economic effects of a booming youth population, has 22 new towns already built or under construction cross the country.

Parand, located 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Tehran, will house 500,000 people as the largest of the new towns. Hashtgerd lies just outside the capital's northwestern outskirts.

The aim of constructing new towns with mass residential buildings is to attract average- and low-income families currently living on the outskirts of bigger cities or smaller towns and villages, the minister said.

"The most important problem in our housing sector is population growth and the imbalance of immigration [to bigger cities]," said Ali-Akbar Aghai, head of parliament's housing commission.

In 2020 Iran expects to have a population of 90 million - 85 percent of whom will be urban residents. The population of Tehran province has already risen to 12 million as people move from smaller towns to the big city.

Parand

The planned city of Parand is situated 35 km from Robatkarim on the way to Saveh in the province of Tehran. The town is intended to provide residence for the staffs of Imam Khomeini International Airport. The city of Parand attracted some 588 residents in the first half of 1379 (2001). Full capacity of the city is estimated at 80,000.

outskirts of Parand:

http://www.dubailand.eu/aryan/pictures/IMG_0363.jpg

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http://www.science-arts.org/src/projects/iran/arak/arak-map.jpg

Mohajeran, Markazi province, ~20 km from Arak.

http://www.dubailand.eu/aryan/pictures/IMG_0265.jpg

http://www.dubailand.eu/aryan/pictures/IMG_0264.jpg

Nice.. good to see they are doing something about the constant rural-urban migration... when it stops im sure these new towns will become expensive suburbs lol.

I know they have good road access being near Saveh and Arak.. what about Metro access? I assume most of the inhabitance will be working in Tehran or Arak no?