SOIETZ to set up industrial city inside prison

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About Saudi Organization for Industrial Estates & Technology Zones (SOIETZ)

The purpose of establishing SOIETZ is planning specified industrial cities in the Kingdom, encouraging the establishment, development, management, maintenance and supervision of these cities including, without specifying its terms of reference, implementation of a strategy for the development of industrial cities, develop rules and procedures relating to the establishment of specified industrial cities and develop, manage, maintain and operate these cities, recommend the allocation of appropriate locations of government land to establish industrial cities and present the necessary recommendations to the Supreme Economic Council for approval and adoption by the Council of Ministers as Specified Industrial Cities. The adoption of land owned by the private sector and specified industrial cities in accordance with this regulation and its executive bylaws, undertake the required procedures to protect environment in the industrial cities in coordination with relevant agencies, monitor the developers' performance and ensure their commitment in terms of development and operation contract, or one of these, ensure the implementation of all the provisions and regulations, try to resolve all conflicts occurred between developer, operators of specified industrial cities and tenant, users or residents amicably and to encourage promotion and growth of the modern technology Zones by providing additional services in these zones to attract technology, and to support the owners of ideas and innovative projects.

Presently there are 14 industrial cities in the Kingdom distributed in (Riyadh 1st. and 2nd industrial cities), Qassim, Dammam (1st. and 2nd. industrial cities), Al-Ahsa, Makkah, Al-Madinah, Jeddah, Ha'il, Al-Jauf, Tabuk, Assir and Najran. The total area of these cities jointly is equal to 92,773,051 square km of which 47% has been developed, and 39% has been allocated (considering that some of these cities had been allocated in full). There are nearly 2000 factories in these industrial cities and the estimated number of employees is approximately 300,000 people.