Olive Grove Living District — gateway sign in English and Arabic, mixed-use stone fabric beyond
Keturah / Masterplans / Olive Grove District
33°28'22.13"N · 36°11'55.10"E · 744 m
Community 07 · The Working District PHASE C · 2033

Olive Grove
Living District.

منطقة بساتين الزيتون السكنية — a 138-hectare mixed-use working district on the corridor's south-eastern plain at 744 metres. Mid-rise stone fabric, civic plaza, office courtyards, library, retail arcade, central park. The corridor's working address, where the day starts at the BRT stop and ends at the olive grove.

Reserve Interest → Read the Place
138HA
District area
15,800
Residents T0
4,260
Dwellings T0
72KM²
Office GFA
49
Designed views
Begin
01The Place

An address
that goes to work.

Eleven kilometres west of Damascus old city, where the corridor's plateau falls to the south-eastern plain, the road levels off at 744 metres and the country opens. Two stone pylons stand at the entrance — limestone, brass medallion, olive trees flanking. The English-language plaque reads OLIVE GROVE LIVING DISTRICT; below it, in Arabic: منطقة بساتين الزيتون السكنية.

This is the working address. Not heritage, not signature, not flagship — but the place that holds the corridor's daily life: offices that fill at nine, retail arcades that open at ten, schools that empty at three, civic-plaza cafés that hum at six. Mid-rise stone fabric on a generous rectilinear grid; every block within four minutes of a BRT stop, every doorstep within two minutes of an olive grove.

The site is the corridor's lowest at 744 metres — the warm end, the practical end, the end that does the work. It is also the largest community by dwelling count after the Bawaba gateway: 4,260 households, sized to absorb the corridor's middle-income workforce.

Olive Grove District — high oblique aerial of the rectilinear masterplan against the south-eastern plain
AERIAL · HIGH OBLIQUE
From Above

A working city block on the corridor's south-eastern plain.
Offices north. Residential south. Civic spine through.

02The Vision

The address
where the corridor
actually lives.

Olive Grove is the corridor's largest mixed-use working community. Where Durra sells the signature, where Dimashq holds the cultural heart, where Bawaba marks the gate — Olive Grove is the place that absorbs the corridor's working population at scale. Seventy-two thousand square metres of office GFA, four thousand two hundred and sixty dwellings, an eighty-shop retail arcade, a 4,800-square-metre library, a wellness clinic, a community hall, a family services centre, a 6-hectare central park bounded on every edge by olive groves.

The fabric is denser than Bawaba, more public than Durra, more programmatic than Dimashq. Mid-rise four-to-six-storey blocks with active ground floors. Courtyard apartments to the south where the park edges; mixed-use stacks along the boulevard; townhouses in the inner cells. Every block has a court; every court has olives; every olive grove gives onto a bioswale corridor that doubles as the district's stormwater system.

The plaque at the gate doesn't say "premium residential". It says "Living District" — and that is the position: the corridor's most-lived-in address.

PRINCIPLE I
Built for the working day.
PRINCIPLE II
Four minutes to the BRT.
PRINCIPLE III
Olives on every block.
PRINCIPLE IV
Civic before commercial.
Olive Grove District — boulevard with Civic Plaza signage lit at dusk
BOULEVARD · CIVIC DUSK
The Civic Spine

Six hundred metres of active frontage.
The corridor's working evening.

03The Plan

A rectilinear grid.
Six use-types. One district.

Olive Grove is the corridor's most rectilinear masterplan — orthogonal blocks, generous gridded streets, every parcel addressable by simple x/y. Six use-types lock into a single 138-hectare grid: residential, office, retail, civic + cultural, parks + groves, mobility + infrastructure.

Olive Grove District — satellite plan with use-type overlay
USE-TYPE PLAN · 33°28'22.13"N · 36°11'55.10"E
Use Mix · % of Total Area

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  • ResidentialCourtyard apartments + townhouse cluster + mixed-use stacks42%
  • Office & BusinessOffice courtyards · coworking terrace · 72,000 m² GFA10%
  • Retail & F&BArcade · 480-metre market lane · cafés & daily services8%
  • Parks & Olive Groves6-ha central park · perimeter olive groves · bioswale corridor18%
  • Civic & CulturalLibrary · community hall · wellness clinic · family services · cultural workshop12%
  • Mobility + InfrastructurePark-and-ride hub · cycle network · district cooling · solar canopy10%
04The Programme · What's Inside

Six programmes,
one twenty-minute district.

RESIDENTIAL42%

4,260 dwellings.

  • T4 courtyard apartments · 2,140 DU
  • T4 mixed-use stacks · 1,460 DU
  • T3 townhouse cluster · 660 DU
  • Median dwelling · 92 m² interior
  • Studio → 4-bed family mix
OFFICE & BUSINESS10%

Working address.

  • Office GFA · 72,000 m²
  • Office courtyards · 4 anchors
  • Coworking terrace · 1,200 seats
  • SME suites · 240 units
  • Lobby + concierge · 6 buildings
RETAIL & F&B8%

The arcade.

  • Market lane · 480 m active frontage
  • Retail arcade · 80 shops
  • Café terraces · 22 outlets
  • Daily services · pharmacy, grocer, bakery
  • Evening retail strip · 18 lots
PARKS & GROVES18%

Olive everywhere.

  • Central park · 6.0 ha
  • Perimeter olive grove · 8.4 ha
  • Play garden · 0.6 ha
  • Fitness trail · 2.2 km loop
  • Bioswale corridor · 3.1 km
CIVIC & CULTURAL12%

The civic spine.

  • Library · 4,800 m²
  • Community hall · 2,400 m²
  • Wellness clinic · 1,800 m²
  • Family services centre · 1,200 m²
  • Cultural workshop · 800 m²
MOBILITY + INFRA10%

The park-and-ride.

  • BRT Station 08 · 280 m (in-district)
  • Park-and-ride · 1,460 spaces
  • Cycle network · 4.6 km in-district
  • EV charging · 32 bays
  • District cooling + solar canopy
05A Day in the District

BRT at 08:10.
Library at noon.
Café at six.

The working day in Olive Grove is paced by the BRT, the library, and the central park. A child walks to school, a parent commutes from the park-and-ride, a grandparent reads on the library terrace. The fabric carries all three rhythms simultaneously.

Morning at the park-and-ride hub — BRT shuttle drop-off
08:10 · Morning

The BRT.

The park-and-ride hub fills before the eight-o'clock commute. Cars come from the agricultural belt and the eastern villages; bikes come in from the courtyard cells; pedestrians come from every direction. Eight minutes of waiting time at peak — by design, never more. Coffee from the boulevard kiosk, breakfast from the bakery arcade, into the BRT spine.

Midday at the library terrace — community library with olive shade
12:30 · Midday

The library.

The 4,800-square-metre library is the district's daytime room. Open shelving on the ground floor, study terraces on the upper levels, a quiet courtyard with olive shade. Twenty thousand books in Arabic, English, and Russian; subscriptions to the corridor's research consortium; community workshops on Saturdays. The reading terrace catches the cross-wind from the central park.

Evening on the retail strip — café terrace lit, families dining
18:30 · Evening

The café strip.

The retail arcade reopens after maghrib. Twenty-two café terraces along four hundred and eighty metres of boulevard; the bakery for the second wave; the daily-needs grocer for the household run. The community hall hosts the seven-thirty programme. At nine the lanterns hand the district back to the courtyard residents.

06Residences · Three Typologies

Apartment, townhouse,
mixed-use stack.

T4 courtyard apartment cluster
T4 · Courtyard Apartment

The Courtyard.

Four-to-six-storey perimeter blocks with shared interior courtyards. Each court has olive shade, a fountain, and benches sized for multi-generational gathering. The largest residential typology by unit count, fronting the central park and the bioswale corridor.

2,140DU
Units
4–6F
Storeys
118DU/HA
Density
  • Shared interior courtyard · olive shade
  • Balcony per dwelling
  • Stone façade · timber screens
  • Sizes · 64 / 88 / 116 / 148 m²
  • Mix · studio → 3-bed
T3 townhouse lane
T3 · Townhouse Cluster

The Lane.

Three-storey townhouses on quiet inner-cell lanes, each with a private rear court and a roof terrace. Sized for families. The lanes are pedestrian-priority and tree-lined, with mashrabiya-screened balconies on the upper levels.

660DU
Units
3F
Storeys
82DU/HA
Density
  • Private rear court · roof terrace
  • Mashrabiya-screened balconies
  • Stone façade · timber doors
  • Sizes · 116 / 148 / 184 / 224 m²
  • Mix · 3-bed → 5-bed family
07Connectivity · The Site, Today

The corridor's south-eastern plain.
Closest community to Damascus.

Olive Grove sits at the corridor's south-eastern edge — the closest community to Damascus old city, just 10.8 kilometres by direct road. The BRT spine has an in-district station; the corridor expressway feeds the park-and-ride; the southern ring connects directly to the airport route.

SATELLITE Open in Google Maps ↗
DAMASCUS OLD CITY
10.8KM
Direct road · ~16 min · closest community to Damascus
BRT · STATION 08 · IN-DISTRICT
280M
Park-and-ride · 8-min headway
DAMASCUS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
30.2KM
~36 min via Damascus southern ring
BAWABA QUARTER · COMMUNITY 04
8.1KM
~22 min BRT north-west to corridor gateway
QATANA · CORRIDOR ANCHOR 07
11.5KM
West along the southern corridor edge
ELEVATION
744M
Lowest in corridor · warmest microclimate
0849 Views

Forty-nine views.
Gate to grain.

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09Specifications

The numbers,
in one place.

Project Name
KETURAH Olive Grove Living District
Arabic Name
منطقة بساتين الزيتون السكنية
Community Number
07 · The Working District
Coordinates
33°28'22.13"N · 36°11'55.10"E
Elevation
744 m above sea level · lowest in corridor
Location
South-eastern corridor edge · ~10.8 km W of Damascus old city
District Area
138 hectares
Residents (Target)
15,800 at maturity
Dwelling Units
4,260 (T4 apt 2,140 · T4 stack 1,460 · T3 660)
Office GFA
72,000 m² (4 office courtyards + SME suites + coworking)
Retail Frontage
480 m active arcade · 80 shops · 22 café outlets
Average Density
~115 DU/ha (T4 courtyard 118 DU/ha)
Storey Range
3 — 6 storeys (no high-rise)
Material Palette
Limestone · timber screens · brass medallions · bronze fluting
BRT Connection
Station S08 · 280 m · in-district park-and-ride
Civic Anchors
Library · community hall · wellness clinic · family services · cultural workshop
Public Realm
6-ha central park · 8.4-ha perimeter olive grove · 3.1 km bioswale
Phase Mapping
Phase C · 2033 — 2037 (post Phase-A & B delivery)
Status
Master Plan v1.0 · pre-construction · evidence stage
Olive Grove District — night civic plaza with community hall and café terrace
Reserve Interest · Phase C · 2033

The working district
opens
in 2033.

Olive Grove Living District is the corridor's largest mixed-use working address — courtyard apartments, mixed-use stacks, office courtyards, library, retail arcade, civic plaza, and 8.4 hectares of perimeter olive groves. First registrations are open to verified counterparties — institutional placement, corporate tenants for the office anchors, qualified individual purchasers.

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