Ethos83

I've been hearing/reading about MBR city.

100 brand new hotels.

The world's biggest shopping mall.

Huge amounts of greenery, with more landscaped areas than Hyde Park.

1,500 luxury villas.

Universal Studios theme park.

Apparently it's going to be built in the stretch between Business Bay and Arabian Ranches.

What's the reality of this actually taking off?

Doesn't Dubai already have the world's biggest mall so what's the point of building something even bigger? And all that landscaping and artificial beaches for the inland lagoons - sheer wastage of resources. WTF? Aren't the powers that be learning from the mistakes from boom #1?

mikewot

Old news, announced over a month ago. The difference is that it's by the deputy of the UAE and ruler of Dubai.

http://m.gulfnews.com/business/const...ears-1.1178062

Kix

Yeah, but it's named after the Ruler - and it's being built by an Indian Company - so Dubai inc will have very little if any exposure to it.

Mogs

There are big boards up along Al Khail Road with Mohamed Bin Rashid City written on them. Not sure if any building work is actually happening yet though.

Boomhauer

Who's gona live there; wealthy SubCons ?

flares

stick to Wimbledon mate

shiva

no, this is boom 2 and it will be different

Blue Cat

It is on the land between business bay and Maydan, all cordoned off and from I saw the other day they have started building. There is also the new Ranches Casa development behind the Ranches, that is huge!! it's no point saying who is going to live there etc, we did that 8 years ago ...

Millhouse

who will?

I dread to think what will happen with an Indian Company taking the lead on this. Al Quouz meets Sharjah meets Burj Al Jinglie

Millhouse

Casa isn't really behind the ranches. It's the other side of the bypass road.

Kix

Exactly.

Stupid, stupid money.

Sobha and Meydan are allegedly a 50/50 partnership...

mentalist

On a vaguely related theme, I read somewhere recently that Emaar Properties are likely to be fined mega bucks by the Indian government for allegedly buying thousands of acres of prime agricultural land in India for development without the necessary permission. Could be interesting, if true.

scrubbedexpat141

This is the problem.

I have, unfortunately, dealt with Sobha.

In fact, they've built a few places in Business Bay (you'll see one by the exit for the back of BB on Al Khail). None look great.

Made worse by the fact they are a Developer / Contractor so will probably be looking to award themselves a lot of the work.

They are an utter shambles.

Blue Cat

so it's the not the area that I pass opposite the polo club directly behind the Arabian Ranches that has a sign saying Casa then?

Millhouse

my mistake BC. I think I'm confusing it with another development.