Manara, a leading Bahrain-based real estate development company, aims to complete the infrastructure works for the first phase of its Investment Gateway-Bahrain project within the next six months, said a top official.

A multi-million-dinar industrial city, Investment Gateway-Bahrain will come up on a 600,000-sq-m area off the coast of Hidd. On completion, it will house several light industrial projects, a business park, showrooms, warehouses and assembly units.

The infrastructure plan for the project has been designed by US-headquartered Aecom. Dr Hasan Al Bastaki, the managing director of Manara Developments, pointed out that the works on paving the roads, extending the sewerage network and installation of most of the light poles, is on track.