Qatar’s World Cup Building Frenzy Reaches Its Day of Reckoning
The real estate and tourism industries face a hard landing now the football fans are headed home — and some projects are still to be finished.
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It’s a date in the calendar that’s been looming even for one of the wealthiest countries on the planet.
As Qatar returns to its sleepier pace after Argentina triumphed in Sunday’s final of a controversial, yet often breathtaking football World Cup, the next challenge is already upon the nation of 3 million people: how to prevent a dozen years of furious development from turning its sole metropolis into the Gulf’s most conspicuous white elephant.