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Dubai Festival City (Arabic: دبي فستيفال سيتي) is a large residential, business and entertainment development in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Touted as a "city-within-a-city", Dubai Festival City is the Middle East's largest mixed-use development: all elements for work, living, and leisure will be contained within the project. Once completed Festival City will comprise a series of residential communities, numerous hotels, malls, a golf course and other entertainment sites, and a full suite of public services, including schools.

Description

Construction of the development, which was undertaken by Al Futtaim Carillion,^[1] began in 2003 and is expected to take 12 years. The project spans 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) of water frontage on the eastern bank of Dubai Creek and is 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) from Dubai International Airport. As of mid-2006, investments in the project had exceeded 11 billion AED (3 billion USD).^[2]

Hotels

The development includes two hotels and a long term stay serviced apartment complex, all managed by InterContinental Hotels Group. In July 2009, Intercontinental took over management of the Al Badia Golf Course. Future developments include the 400-room Four Seasons Hotel Dubai, but construction of both hotels was put on hold in January 2009 due to the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009.^[3]

Dubai Festival City Mall

The Festival Waterfront Centre, is a retail power centre which includes IKEA, HyperPanda supermarket (first hypermarket outside of Saudi Arabia^[4]) and Ace Hardware (the largest outside North America).^[5]

References

^ Design & build the way forward
^ Investments in Dubai Festival City exceed Dh11b Template:Wayback Gulf News: 5 April 2006
^ "Two five-star hotels at Festival City shelved". Emirates Business 24/7. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
^ "Dubai Festival City to have first 'HyperPanda' outside Saudi Arabia". AME Info. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
^ "Festival Power Centre". Dubai Festival City. Retrieved 2008-06-21.

External links

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[1] Design & build the way forward

[2] Investments in Dubai Festival City exceed Dh11b Template:Wayback Gulf News: 5 April 2006

[3] "Two five-star hotels at Festival City shelved". Emirates Business 24/7. Retrieved 2009-07-01.

[4] "Dubai Festival City to have first 'HyperPanda' outside Saudi Arabia". AME Info. Retrieved 2008-08-31.

[5] "Festival Power Centre". Dubai Festival City. Retrieved 2008-06-21.

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 ==Description==
 [[File:Festival City Dubai.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Dubai Festival City at night]]
-Construction of the development, which was undertaken by [[Al-Futtaim Group|Al Futtaim]] [[Carillion]],<ref>[http://www.arabianbusiness.com/500701-design-aamp-build-the-way-forward?ln=en Design & build the way forward]</ref> began in 2003 and is expected to take 12 years. The project spans {{convert|3.8|km|mi}} of water frontage on the eastern bank of Dubai Creek and is {{convert|2|km|mi|sp=us}} from [[Dubai International Airport]]. As of mid-2006, investments in the project had exceeded 11 billion [[United Arab Emirates dirham|AED]] (3 billion [[USD]]).<ref>[http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/atm/more_stories/10037509.html Investments in Dubai Festival City exceed Dh11b] ''Gulf News'': 5 April 2006</ref>
+Construction of the development, which was undertaken by [[Al-Futtaim Group|Al Futtaim]] [[Carillion]],<ref>[http://www.arabianbusiness.com/500701-design-aamp-build-the-way-forward?ln=en Design & build the way forward]</ref> began in 2003 and is expected to take 12 years. The project spans {{convert|3.8|km|mi}} of water frontage on the eastern bank of Dubai Creek and is {{convert|2|km|mi|sp=us}} from [[Dubai International Airport]]. As of mid-2006, investments in the project had exceeded 11 billion [[United Arab Emirates dirham|AED]] (3 billion [[USD]]).<ref>[http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/atm/more_stories/10037509.html Investments in Dubai Festival City exceed Dh11b] {{wayback|url=http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/atm/more_stories/10037509.html |date=20070929134550 }} ''Gulf News'': 5 April 2006</ref>
 ==Hotels==