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Festival Centre on target for autumn opening

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, December 27 - 2005 at 09:54
  • PRESS RELEASE

Work on Dubai Festival City's impressive 'urban retail resort', Festival Centre, is on track for the grand opening in autumn 2006.

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  • Excellent progress is being made at the Festival Centre site.
    Excellent progress is being made at the Festival Centre site.
Buoyed by the successful opening of the first phase in November 2005, which saw the launch of the UAE's largest IKEA at the site, Festival Centre will open its doors to the public as scheduled.

"Substructure and superstructure activities are currently approaching completion with the installation of the Feature Roofs and Structural Steel elements well under way," explained Phil McArthur, Director Leasing & Marketing, Dubai Festival City.
"Services installation works are proceeding throughout, as are the finishes works to the basement car park areas. We are now moving into the finishing phase of the main retail mall which will continue in parallel with the tenants' fit-out activities that will commence in the New Year."


To ensure that the project remains on track, construction programmes are being continually assessed to identify opportunities to improve the methodology, and sequencing of the works.

Careful consideration has also been taken to ensure that the on-going construction does not cause any disruption to the already opened retail and community elements.

"To ensure the public are safeguarded from construction activity, the Dubai Festival City road network has been designed and implemented in such a way to allow unrestricted public access and parking, whilst ensuring construction traffic and activity is segregated from the completed facilities such as IKEA and the schools," said McArthur.

"This allows for a positive customer experience as well as allowing construction to continue unhindered."

At present, 4,500 workers are involved in the construction of Festival Centre with the number likely to rise to over 8,500 as the project nears completion.
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About Dubai Festival City:
A 1,600 acre 'city-within-a-city', Dubai Festival City is an inspirational all-in-one destination taking shape on the sweeping curves of the historic Dubai Creek. As the Middle East's largest, privately-funded, mixed-use, real estate development, this all-in-one city offers infinite opportunities in retail, residential, leisure, hospitality and entertainment.

The project is skirted by a four kilometre long, privately-developed Creekside corniche. Set to become a downtown landmark, the Corniche fronts this all-encompassing city, which combines an unrivalled blend of modern office towers, superb waterfront villas, luxury and convention hotels, five-star resorts and time share villas, an 18 hole championship golf course, a unique waterfront retail destination, which boasts some of the world's leading brands, a 150 berth Mediterranean style marina, a state-of-the-art automotive retail park, a vibrant community centre, terraced hillside villas, golf course residential and Mediterranean-style apartments.

The development is reinvigorating Dubai's downtown district and will leverage its proximity to the award winning Dubai International Airport as well as its expansive waterfront to deliver a new vibrancy and sense of community to the suburban landscape.

For further information, please contact:
Bassem Terkawi
Public Relations and Events Manager
Dubai Festival City
Tel: +9714 213 6187;
Fax: +9714 2851185


Sam Dulka
MCS/Action, PO Box 20970, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel: +9714 390 2960;
Fax: +9714 390 8161

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