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Saudi Arabia’s Sports Boulevard Foundation has issued a tender inviting firms to bid for a contract to build its Global Sports Tower in the Athletics District of the Sports Boulevard development in Riyadh.

The tender was issued on 31 July with a submission deadline of 30 September.

The 130-metre-tall Global Sports Tower will cover an area of 84,000 square metres (sq m) and will include over 30 different sports facilities.

The tower will have the world’s tallest indoor climbing wall at 98 metres and a 250-metre running track.

In May, MEED exclusively reported that Sports Boulevard Foundation had completed the design work on Global Sports Tower and the tender was expected to be issued imminently.

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud approved designs for Global Sports Tower in July last year.

Sports Boulevard runs through Riyadh from east to west. Once complete, it will be the world’s longest park, at over 135 kilometres.

The project will be spread across different districts within the park. These include the Wadi Hanifah, Arts, Urban Wadi, Entertainment, Athletics and Eco districts and Sands Sports Park.

The large-scale project aims to transform the cityscape of central Riyadh, which is currently dominated by major highways, into a recreational area.

Sports Boulevard will feature 4.4 million sq m of public realm and landmark buildings, including Global Sports Tower, the Centre for Cinematic Arts and a 2,000-seat amphitheatre.

The development will also offer over 2.3 million sq m of mixed-use commercial, residential and retail assets and sports facilities around the park, which is called Linear Park.