Saudi Arabian Crown Prince’s $12 trillion, desert-city dream in tatters as megaproject halted

It was supposed to the most groundbreaking structure the world had ever seen. But now, this multi-trillion-dollar “smart city ...

End of ‘The Line’: A timeline of Saudi Arabia’s failed rendering city

The horizontal skyscraper sci-fi dream is now just a colossal crater in the desert. Saudi Arabia has halted construction on ...
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Why I think the Line in 2026 failed

Saudi Arabia has halted construction on its ambitious megaproject, The Line, with around $50 billion already spent. This ...
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End of The Line? Saudi Arabia scales back plan for wildly ambitious 100-mile-long megacity in the desert

Ambitious plans for a 100-mile-long megacity in Saudi Arabia – a key part of the kingdom’s $2 trillion redevelopment project – have been put on hold so they can be scaled back. Now, however, the ...

How Saudi Arabia's spending spree reached the end of the line

MBS's Vison 2030 project seemed the stuff of science fiction. Now reality has bitten ...

Saudi’s NEOM halts work on The Line until after 2030

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM has delayed further work on The Line — the planned 170-kilometer long dual skyscrapers once projected to ...
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Cancelled Contracts Signal Rethink for Saudi Arabia’s $500B NEOM Megaproject

Site preparation and foundation work had started in 2024 for the first segments of The Line in northwest Saudi Arabia. Screen capture from video released by THE LINE at NEOM March 31, 2026 ...
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NEOM terminates contract with Webuild in Saudi Arabia, effective May 27

NEOM ended its contract with Webuild for a high-speed rail connector, with a backlog of $1.16 billion ...

Saudi Arabia’s mega project era: Is big spending phase coming to an end?

Projects such as NEOM, The Line and winter resorts in desert regions were presented as symbols of a new economic era. Today, ...