Badr City’s Great Location
Badr city has always been known for its great location. This location is what makes it so special.
The city is at the starting point of the Cairo-Suez Road, which was considered its only entrance is. But after the city massive expansion over the past few years, a new entrance has been added through an extension to the Cairo-Ismailia Road, only 2,400 meters long.
The city is only 10 minutes away from Nasr City, and 30 minutes from Downtown Cairo. The city also lies close to El Shorouk and Obour cities, and it’s the closest city to the New Administrative Capital.
A City in the media spotlight
Badr City is the first modern city in Cairo, it has been around since 1984. Yet, it was still pretty neglected for over 30 years.
The reason for this general negligence is probably because this city was only regarded as emergency accommodation. This feeling came to people since the city assigned some of its buildings for those affected by the 1992 earthquake, along with those affected by torrents.
Things have definitely changed since the implementation of the New Capital was announced, the most important development project in Egypt’s history and the one that will change the urban map as we know it. This is obvious since all ministries, government departments, embassies, some universities, and other important services are all being transferred from Cairo to the New Capital.
Badr city, being the closest city to the New Capital has caught the attention of both the people and the media, and quite rapidly grew in both population and size.
This, of course, caused the prices to increase. To know more about the latest and updated prices in Badr City, you can follow the Real Estate Prices Index for Badr City.
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Getting this much attention has led Badr City to increase not only in population and size, but in apartment prices as well, and it makes perfect sense since it became the perfect alternative for those who want to live in the New Capital.
Even with the increase of apartment prices, one meter in Badr City is almost 80% cheaper than a meter in the New Capital.
The start of work in the New Capital came amid a delay in the receiving of some units in Badr City, particularly in the social housing units.
Rumors pointed out that this delay was caused by the country transferring contractors and building equipment from Badr City to the New Capital. Nothing backed this up, however, which leads us to believe this delay was in fact caused by the increase in the prices of building equipment, after the increase of dollar prices.
Biggest Medical Center in the Middle East
Businessmen are interested in using the city’s atmosphere and location to host the largest medical city for therapeutic tourism in the Middle East with investments worth EGP 20 billion, built on 110 feddans.
This huge project is being built in three phases, which are as follows:
- The first phase, 53 feddans, planned to launch in 2 years.
- The second phase, 24 feddans
- And the third phase, 32 feddans.
The second and third phases are planned to launch in 3 years, meaning the project will be fully operational 5 years from the implementation date.
The city will offer the most innovative treatments in medical science in addition to the latest techniques as well as the most advanced medical technology. The city also wishes to offer its services not only to Egypt but to all of Africa and the Middle East, through therapeutic tourism.
The first phase is being built on only 30% of the space assigned to it, the rest in favor of landscapes and green areas. It includes 8 buildings:
- The medical center
- Rehabilitation center: includes 420 beds making it the first of its kind in the Middle East.
- Specialized clinics: 170 clinics over an area of 4,000 square meters.
- Educational Hospital: 375 beds, fully equipped.
- Emergency Hospital: 512 beds, the first hospital specifically for emergencies in the Middle East, fully equipped and includes a helipad.
- A hotel
- Administration building
- A shopping mall, over 17,000 square meters.
The city will be the first medical city to ever run on solar power. This project will surely help stimulate the Egyptian economy, and offer 15,000 jobs. The city also allocated 10% of its medical power to low-income patients.
* Please note that all prices mentioned in this article are for the first quarter of 2019 and subject to change, and we in Aqarmap try to update them regularly in our prices guide of districts. Choose between different spaces and styles in the best compounds in Badr City, you would find many payment plans that suit all.