Word: jiddah
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...million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham, a well-loved 77-year-old structure that is being totally rebuilt. Its presidential suite will rent for $1,750 a night, plus tax. Le Big Boss...
TIME'S article "The Jubail Superproject" [July 12] falsely compares the management effectiveness on the Riyadh and Jiddah airports in Saudi Arabia, one involving Bechtel and the other Parsons...
Contrary to the implications in the article, Parsons neither designed nor built the King Abdulaziz Airport in Jiddah. A joint venture of Parsons and another company has served as construction and program manager for this project since 1976. Expanding enormously since the originally modest plan was prepared in 1965, this airport is now by far the largest and finest in the world, with a major military complex, two commercial terminals, a royal pavilion and the Haj terminal, having a capacity to handle more than a million pilgrims arriving and departing within less than a month each year...
TIME did not mean to imply that the higher final cost of the Jiddah airport was due to Parsons' mismanagement rather than changes in scope of the project...