02 Seven Anchors. One Corridor.

Each location has a role.
The corridor functions as one city.

Seven anchors carry distinct programmes: education, digital, healthcare, civic, agricultural interface, hospitality, and energy terminus. The instrument binds them as one development — not seven projects.

Yafour upland
YAFOUR S1·S2
01 PHASE A · 2026
01Where the corridor breaks ground.

Yafour.

An upland plateau. The west gateway. The first ground broken.

Education · Innovation · West Gateway

Phase A's upland plateau opens with a university, a K–12 magnet school, applied research, and an innovation district. Park-and-ride at the western edge, BRT stations S1 and S2, and direct corridor access. The Damascene fabric translates upland: stone-faced courtyards, deep openings, terraced public realm.

1,820HA
Anchor area T0
155,000
Residents T0
40,000
Dwellings T0
Programme
  • University · 28,000 students
  • K–12 magnet school
  • Applied research campus
  • Innovation district
  • Park-and-ride at gateway
Corridor relevance
  • BRT stations S1 & S2
  • Phase A capital allocation
  • West gateway interchange
  • Mt. Hermon visual axis
  • Upland Damascene typology
02Syria's reconnection to global digital flows.

Kafr Qoud.

A digital district inside a working civic fabric — not a tech-park stage-set.

Digital · Data Centre · 5G Core

A 110-megawatt data-centre campus, a fibre meet-me facility, and 5G core infrastructure, woven into a walkable stone-clad district with civic-industrial depth. Tech and office GFA sits inside the urban grid, not behind it. Working district, not isolated park.

1,310HA
Anchor area T0
110MW
Data-centre capacity T0
28,500
Dwellings T0
Programme
  • 110 MW data-centre campus
  • Fibre meet-me facility
  • 5G core
  • Tech & office GFA
  • Walkable stone-clad blocks
Corridor relevance
  • BRT stations S3 & S4
  • Phase B capital tranche
  • DFI digital infrastructure pathway
  • Civic-industrial integration
  • 110,000 residents
Kafr Qoud
02 PHASE B · 2031
Al-Baja
03 PHASE B · 2031
03Tertiary care restored to Damascus west.

Al-Baja.

A 720-bed courtyard hospital with stone public face — healthcare as civic architecture.

Healthcare · Life-Sciences · DFI Pathway

A tertiary hospital, district clinics, medical research, and a life-sciences park, with workforce housing integrated into the urban fabric. DFI-suited healthcare finance pathway. The hospital reads as a civic building — courtyards, stone, shaded campus — not a free-standing tower.

1,440HA
Anchor area
720
Hospital beds T0
125,000
Residents
Programme
  • Tertiary hospital · 720 beds
  • District clinics
  • Medical research
  • Life-sciences park
  • Workforce housing
Corridor relevance
  • BRT station S5
  • DFI healthcare finance
  • 32,000 dwellings
  • Courtyard hospital typology
  • Workforce housing in fabric
04Where the corridor becomes a city.

Al-Qurain.
The T6 core.

Civic square, library, museum, performance hall — and the densest mixed-use programme in the corridor.

Civic · Cultural · T6 Core

The civic and cultural T6 core. Central civic square anchored by library, museum, performance hall, and administrative quarter. The Roman Temple Interchange (Station S07) connects the civic spine. Densest mixed-use, longest cultural programming hours, and the corridor's identity centre.

130HA T6
Urban core
~360P/HA
Density target
S07
Roman Temple Interchange T1
Civic programme
  • Central civic square
  • Public library
  • Museum
  • Performance hall
  • Administrative quarter
Corridor relevance
  • BRT interchange · station S07
  • Roman Temple connection
  • Identity centre of corridor
  • Densest mixed-use
  • Phase C delivery
Al-Qurain civic
04 PHASE C · 2037
As-Salboura agri edge
05 PHASE C · 2037
05The urban edge of the working landscape.

As-Salboura.

Where the courtyard fabric meets the olive grove. No gated compounds. No displacement.

Agricultural Interface · Residential Fabric

Courtyard residential fabric runs to the edge of the inviolable T2 belt. Existing villages are integrated, not displaced. Tenure is protected. Access to the agricultural belt is a public right, not a real-estate amenity.

1,060HA
Anchor area
95,000
Residents
S9·S10
BRT stations
Principle
  • No displacement of existing villages
  • No gated compounds
  • Public access to agri belt
  • Tenure protected
  • Courtyard typology
Corridor relevance
  • Belt interface logic
  • Village integration register
  • BRT S9 & S10
  • Cooperative governance hand-off
06Hospitality anchored to a public spring.

Ras Al-Ain.

The 95-hectare spring-source park is public. Hospitality sits on the edge — never on the source.

Hospitality · Wellness · Spring-Source

A 95-hectare spring-source park as public realm. 4,800 hotel keys, wellness programming, conference centre, and salsabil-inspired water details — all anchored to a public water identity. Hospitality without theme-park failure: the water belongs to the city, not the resort.

1,520HA
Anchor area
95HA
Spring-source park
4,800
Hotel keys
Programme
  • Spring-source park · public
  • Hospitality · 4,800 keys
  • Wellness programming
  • Conference centre
  • Salsabil water heritage
Corridor relevance
  • BRT stations S11 & S12
  • 120,000 residents
  • Water identity protection
  • Hospitality finance pathway
Ras Al-Ain spring
06 PHASE C · 2037
Qatana terminus
07 PHASE D · 2044
07The eastern terminus.

Qatana.

Renewable energy and the closure of the agricultural belt. The corridor's longest-dated commitment.

Terminus · Renewable Energy · Belt Completion

The eastern terminus — Phase D — completes the agricultural belt and brings on a renewable-energy plant with storage and PV investment. Stations S13 and S14 close the 28-kilometre BRT spine. The corridor's longest-horizon delivery, and the test of long-dated discipline.

1,330HA
Anchor area
S13·S14
Terminus stations
2050
Maturity horizon
Programme
  • Renewable-energy plant
  • Storage & PV investment
  • Agricultural-belt completion
  • Eastern terminus interchange
Corridor relevance
  • Closure of 28 km spine
  • Mountain-to-city transition
  • Long-horizon completion logic
  • Belt-to-belt continuity
02.ASettlement Register · Existing Population

The corridor is not empty.
Seven settlements. 2004 census baseline.

Every anchor sits over, beside, or near an existing settlement. The plan integrates them. The 2004 census is the formal baseline — the most recent registered count prior to the conflict.

Settlement
2004 Census
Note
Yafour
4,638
UPLAND · ANCHOR 01
Kafr Qoud
1,015
ANCHOR 02
Al-Baja
1,058
ANCHOR 03
Qura al-Sham
1,067
VILLAGE INTEGRATION
As-Salboura ⚠ NOMENCLATURE
10,969
ANCHOR 05
Ras Al-Ain
TBD
ANCHOR 06
Qatana district seat
207,245
DISTRICT-WIDE

Source: Syrian 2004 census · most recent registered count prior to 2011 conflict. Field re-verification scheduled with cadastral cross-check. T1

⚠ DATA INTEGRITY

As-Salboura nomenclature warning.

As-Salboura is spelled and indexed inconsistently across pre-conflict registers ("Sabboura", "as-Sabboura", "Sabboureh"). Equivalence with historical cadastral records requires field verification before any title-affecting decision.

⛔ EXCLUSION ZONE

500 m Yafour military buffer.

A 500-metre civilian-development exclusion buffer is maintained around Yafour Military Base. The Phase A campus plan is set behind this buffer. No civilian programme inside the line.

★ CIVIC ANCHOR

Roman Temple Interchange · S07.

The Deir El Aachayer Roman Temple site sits at BRT Station 7 — the single high-density civic node where the spine meets the T6 core. The temple is the plaza; the plaza is not a leasable parcel.