Jabal Omar Development Company announced that it has awarded a project worth more than SAR 2.5 billion to two national companies. The project includes the implementation of the third phase of Jabal Omar consisting of two buildings and four hotel towers, noting that the project will be executed in a period of 36 months.

Jabal Omar Development Company unveiled plans to bring up to ten hotel towers online in Makkah in 2013. The company, established to invest USD 3.2 billion in Makkah, is developing 2.2 million sqm of land near the Grand Mosque. The site was designed to include 38 hotel towers and the large shopping mall. Hotel operators Marriott International, Hyatt Hotels, Hilton Hotels and Sheraton will manage properties on the development. The USD 5.3 billion project will be completed in five years, and will host 38 hotels, managed by 28 companies and will add 13,500 rooms to Makkah's hospitality industry once complete in five years.

Jabal Omar Development Company announced that Dr. AbdulRahman Ben Saeed AlHazemy joined the Board of Directors as a representative for The Supreme Awkaf Council in replacement of Mr. Bakr Ben Hamed Ben AbdulGhafour Mer.