Marota City, as Syria’s largest investment project is known, is seen as setting the blueprint for how the government will undertake the ambitious rebuilding of areas devastated in the nearly eight-year civil war. The government is using controversial new property laws to create zones where partnerships of the government and businessmen take ownership of neighbourhoods and redevelop them. The Marota project lies at the heart of Syria’s tangled web of politics and rebuilding. 66, which authorized the government to redevelop slum dwellings and illegal housing areas in the capital. In April, the government passed controversial property Law No.

Source: National Post November 05, 2018 06:11 UTC