Rawabi which means "The Hills" in Arabic is the first planned city built for and by Palestinians in the "West Bank". Rawabi is located near Ramallah north of Jerusalem. The ambitious plan pictured a high tech city with 6,000 housing units, housing a population of between 25,000 and 40,000 people. Construction began in January 2010. By 2014, 650 apartments, housing an estimated 3,000 people had been completed and sold, but could not be occupied while negotiations over supplying the city with water stalled. On March 1, 2015, its developer, Bashar al-Masri, announced that Israel agreed to connect the city up to the Israeli-controlled water grid. Buyers started moving into apartments in August 2015. By May 2017, Masri claimed that 3,000 Palestinians had taken up residence there, though the Palestinian census for the same year only listed 710 residents, a far cry from the hoped for 25,000-40,000. The total cost of the development, mostly funded by the Qatari company LDR and Masri, a native of Nablus and Palestinian multimillionaire, is estimated at US$850 million. As of June 2015, the total investment in Rawabi is US$1.2 billion. The design input included concerns to avoid looking like a Palestinian version of an Israeli settlement: red roofs- the most vigorous aesthetic symbol of such settlements - are ruled out; defensive walling off of the township ignored, and guard towers are not envisioned. Though practically, neither a wall or guard tower is needed as Palestinians rarely attack each other.