| From Businessweek.com: Blue City, a $20 billion real estate development, was supposed to help transform Oman, the Persian Gulf nation of about 3 million people. Government officials extolled the project as an important step in its plan to diversify the economy and prepare for the depletion of oil reserves.
But Blue City, envisioned as a community for more than 200,000 people, missed sales targets as real estate speculators left Middle Eastern markets and a legal battle between the project's owners made potential buyers wary. Now it may face liquidation..............................................Full Article: Source
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