square meters of land have been set aside in the middle of Rabieh, so that access may be easy for all. Likewise, 7,000 square meters have been allotted for the building of a club for recreation and amusement, of no less importance than the cooperative stores. The third of these important amenities is the project of the elementary school and the playgrounds, to which 10,000 square meters have been allotted. For these three centers the board of directors is studying, with specialists and engineers, modern architectural designs, that they may come out perfect in beauty and workmanship.
The company has set aside one patch of ground for housing the permanent workmen, and another for the quarries, which have begun producing building stone and rubble at low prices...
Regard for taste and health: So that Rabieh may be a model town, healthy and modern, the company has laid down building regulations defining the conditions the shareholders must follow in building their homes, so that these may harmonize with one another and be built in a manner that provides for comfort, taste, and public health.
Preparing for the start of building: During this year the company passed through an organizational period that was necessary to the progress and success of its work. To encourage the shareholders to build, the board of directors has decided to grant the first ten shareholders who begin building special facilities and free services; and it has invited a select group of architects to submit artistic architectural designs for houses of various sizes, to be displayed afterward at the Rabieh office, where they will be within reach of shareholders wishing to build.
This is in addition to the various material facilities whose execution the board is studying, in the hope that they will meet with response and encouragement
from the shareholders, so that during the coming year the model town of Rabieh may arise — a sweet beauty-mark adorning all the suburbs of Beirut, and a distinguished innovation in building and society, whose sponsors deserve appreciation and thanks, and which itself deserves a special measure of attention, worthy of being carried over and imitated, not in Lebanon alone but in every
other Arab country as well.
And the day the stone buildings begin to tower, vying one with another, and the gardens range themselves in utter harmony and ease, people will acknowledge what a debt — and what a great one — they owe this chosen band of men, and will credit them with a beneficent precedent and a decisive leap toward a glorious social and building renaissance...
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