It is promoted as being the world's first sustainable downtown regeneration project and one of the smartest cities on earth, strategically located in the heart of Doha.

[2] Located in the downtown area of Qatar's capital city, it is set to occupy 310,000 sq m with the total cost of construction amounting to approximately $5.5 billion.

[2] In January 2018, Carillion's UK business went into liquidation blaming its collapse on problem contracts including the Msheireb Downtown Doha project, where the company claimed it was owed £200m[10] – former CEO Richard Howson said he felt like "a bailiff" in chasing the debt.

;[15][16] Phase 4 of over 350,000 M2 BUA (15 residential, commercial, medical and 5start hotel buildings plus 6 basement technical and parking) was awarded to Consolidated Contractors Group (Offshore)(CCC) and Teyseer Contracting (JV) (US$630 M) (GOLDEN LEED Certified); which was started Jan. 2017 and completed in Mar.

The first phase, referred to as the 'Diwan Amiri Quarter', currently under construction, features a combination of three major government buildings including the National Archive, along with heritage sites, a museum and an Eid Prayer Ground.

The Heritage Quarter is a historic area which contains traditional courtyard houses and the recently restored Msheireb Eid Prayer Ground, dating to the first decade of 20th century, alongside a newly constructed mosque.

The newly renovated Msheireb Eid Prayer Ground, found opposite of Al Koot Fort and in close proximity to Souq Waqif, was inaugurated in October 2014.

Status: Mainly comprises retail, offices, apartments, cinemas, department store and hotel; ten buildings in total.

[26][27] Three-year project with leading architects, city planners, engineers, and academics (including specialists from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and MIT) to understand how insights from the past can be combined with present-day technologies and thinking to achieve a new, distinctly Qatari architectural language.

Hotels, shops and retail establishments will take up a combined space of 26%, while government buildings have been allotted roughly more than one-third of the entire area.

The entire project features sustainable design that consumes fewer resources, generates less waste, costs less to operate, and achieves a reduced carbon footprint.