History of Sepad Company

Sepad Khorassan was founded in 1987 by financial and intellectual support of ten thousands combatant and took its name from the beginning of “Sazandegi Pas Az Defae”, and its translation is “Construction after Defense”.
This company bought a land with an area of 600 Hectares located at the north west of Mashhad (Elahiyeh) and took action for exact study of Sustainable development and social partnership, and now 200 hectares of the land is known as Sepad Commercial and Tourism Zone.
Among the founders of the company are persons like General Noorali shooshtari (Martyr), General Mohsen Rafighdoost, Dr. Ghalibaf, Mr. Saberifar, Azarniva, and the Last Ebrahimzadeh who, with a foresight, made a chance for ten thousand combatants to share their small capital for developing and constructing the city.
The detailed and comprehensive plan of Sepad was approved by the commission of article 5 of Supreme Council of architecture and Urban Planning, Mashhad in 1996, and as per this approval the plan of “Sepad Commercial and Tourism Zone” was accepted.
Based on this plan, Sepad Company succeeded to meet long-term goals during 29 years at the suburb of Mashhad, where it could be the origin of many abnormalities and the result is Sepad Commercial and Tourism Zone constructions with an area more than half million square meters.
After securing the approval, the company has started to build necessary infrastructure such as passageways, green space, surface water network, drinking water and wastewater network, gas transmission network and electricity transmission and communications network. The most outstanding projects of the company are Khayyam Square and seven kilometers of Mashhad Ring Road which were constructed with an expense more than 320 Billion Rials.
After that, in 2007, by constructing Central Fruit Market, International Shopping Mall, Almas Shargh Commercial complex, Vesal complex and tens of entertainment, commercial and tourism projects, the company could take the authorization for Selected National Tourism Region from the cabinet of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Doing comprehensive studies, making long-term planning and considering social and cultural attachment, the company not only could develop the suburb of the city and prevent from generation of non-official residencies, but also it generated a worthy source of sustainable income for governmental and private establishments. The company succeeded to change a deprived region into a rich region enjoying appropriate infrastructures.
Also Sepad Company, preventing consumerism from happening and having a constructive insight, built a CHP power station for simultaneous generation of electricity and heat which greatly attracted the authorities’ attention and became a model for other economical and tourism activists.
Sepad Company took actions in field of urban management and traffic control by developing the infrastructures of public transportation and constructing high capacity car parks and now it has the largest area of Multi-storey car parks for 60,000 square meters.
The Sepad Company’s point of view about the safety, with the goal of making equal opportunities, social justice and reducing social inequality, is strategic. This company providing the safety of Sepad Commercial and Tourism Zone for many years and today Kalantari 30 Sepad Company is constructed under support of Sepad Company at the entrance of Esmaeilabad Village.
This company has an important role in reducing the unemployment rate via creating more than 12,000 job opportunities and it would be a record in private section.
Sepad Khorassan Company plays an important role in social, economical and cultural development of the region by performing unique projects. In this rout, besides the company could attract the public trust as the greatest capital and honor, he succeed to achieve titles such as “the best entrepreneur of the country”, “selected in the Bests Festival in the industry of tourism”, “selected in bests of building industry in respect of innovation” and “selected for the best building of Mashhad”.
Sepad Khorasan Company, during 29 years of effort and construction, could perform unique and great projects in field of commerce and tourism directly or via partnership.
Besides implemented projects which shall be described in detail, we could names other projects such as Aftab Shore Park, Sarzamin-e Khorshid Entertainment Park, National Project of Saba Sky Diving, Tourism Complex of Birds Garden, Navid Commercial Complex, as well as other tourism complexes such as Wonderland Entertainment Park, Saltwater Fish Aquarium, Professor Bazima Scientific Park, Atlasiyeh Glass Restaurant, Multidimensional Cinema and tens of other centers; and Educational Fire Station 21 and Sepad Police Station which provide the safety of the region.
Along with these activities, this company did necessary actions in public transportation development by providing taxis at the region, as well as construction Tourism Terminal in 2004, and now there are several transportation lines from different parts of the city to this region.
Moreover, Sepad Company facilitates the conditions for presence of people by exploration from multi-story and one-story car parks with the area of more than 50,000 square meters.
Managing and maintaining the green spaces and passageways is one of the most important actions of Sepad Company during the past 29 years, so that it uses the green spaces for landscaping and a way to prevent from generation of non-official residencies. The company allocates an area of 140,000 square meters to arboriculture. Besides the above mentioned projects, Sepad Company has projects such as Bazaar Tower Project, City Star Modern Project and the Large Complex for Guild Union of Cloth Suppliers which are under constructing and they physically are in good progress.