The Municipality of Madinah in western Saudi Arabia said Sunday it has approved a giant real estate project in the form of a residential neighborhood that includes more than 3,728 housing units, such as villas, buildings, mosques, schools and service facilities. The Municipality didn’t disclose the cost of the project, which will be implemented by the Ministry of Housing in cooperation with the private sector. It issued a permit to start construction for the project that consists of about 2,962 housing units on a land plot of approximately 740,000 square meters, which will include 766 residential buildings. Each building has three apartments on separate floors. According to Madinah Mayor Fahad Albuliheshi, the project falls in line with the joint cooperation among the Municipality, the Housing Ministry branch in Madinah and the Developers Services Center (ETMAM), in partnership with the private sector. It provides housing units with different areas and designs that suit all needs, he noted. The facilities and service locations, which were carefully selected and distributed to serve the population density, have been reviewed by architectural engineers, Albuliheshi added. The project is located in a distinctive location in al-Sakb neighborhood in Madinah along King Khalid and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz streets, he said. It accommodates about 13,500 people within an integrated environment, a commercial complex, a health center, six schools for boys and girls, a kindergarten and seven mosques, the municipal chief explained. General Manager at ETMAM Abdulwahab al-Qahtani stressed the strategic role played by the services center as a government initiative aimed at overcoming the obstacles facing the real estate developers and housing projects. Qahtani pointed to the integrated role and fruitful cooperation provided by various government agencies to make the initiative a success.