HDH Designers has been awarded the design and consultation role for the laundry steam networks of the SHARY JWAN – Iraq.
The Grand Millennium Hotel Shary Jwan is the new landmark of the autonomous Kurdistan Region’s second city. The hotel, built by the local Faruk Group Holding which belongs to one of the city’s richest businessmen, Faruk Mustafa, catches the eye in and outside the city. The blue-glass skyscraper towers over Sulêmanî from a hill.
“It is another success story of the Kurdish economic boom,” said Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani during an opening speech in the hotel’s ballroom, with hundreds of invited guests seated at round tables for dinner. “The private sector is really important for the region. We realized early on that we cannot do without.”
He praised “the rich in Kurdistan that are helping the government with their wealth and money to build the country,” and called on them to do even more. Recently, Kurdish businessmen have helped the regional government with millions of dollars in loans to pay the salaries of civil servants, after Baghdad froze Kurdistan’s constitutional share from the Iraqi budget over a seething oil row.
Mustafa, the businessman behind the new hotel, earned his nickname of the “Red Millionaire” because he was once an active communist inside the Kurdish resistance of the 1970s and 80s. He turned into one of Kurdistan’s richest businessmen and its first billionaire, starting his business empire by setting up one of the main Kurdish telephone companies, Asiacell, which now operates across Iraq.
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