Dubai master developer Emaar has announced that a new commercial and office district spanning 300,000 sq m is being planned alongside Dubai Square in Dubai Creek Harbour, at a total investment of AED12 billion ($3.27 billion). This comes as part of a wider development anchored by the proposed Dubai Creek Tower.

The district will include direct access to two metro stations and Dubai Square, alongside four hotels and three urban parks. It will also serve the surrounding Dubai Creek Harbour community, which is planned to accommodate about 200,000 residents.

The development is positioned as a major business and commercial hub within Dubai Creek Harbour, with the new Dubai Creek Tower expected to serve as its landmark feature.

The new Dubai Creek Tower is envisioned as an iconic global landmark and a defining expression of Dubai’s ambition. 

Together with Dubai Square, it will give Dubai Creek Harbour a distinctive identity recognised around the world. For companies based here, the tower will bring a powerful sense of place: an internationally recognisable setting for their own next chapter.

On the new project, Mohamed Alabbar, the founder of Emaar, said: "Some places are built for business. This place was built for ambition. When the history of Dubai’s next chapter is written, it will be written from these towers."

“Most business districts are located near a metro. But this one is built on top of it. Two metro stations serve the district directly, and the office buildings are linked straight into them,” he stated. 

Once the residents step off the train, they get to cross a climate-controlled link and arrive directly into the lobby; no car park, no taxi queue, no midday heat, he added.

According to Emaar, the network goes further. Across Dubai Creek Harbour, 3 metro stations, 17 bus stops and a 7 km Discovery Loop knit the whole city together. Your talent can live anywhere in Dubai and still be at their desk without ever touching a steering wheel.

“And the station itself is a landmark. Dubai Creek Harbour's Iconic Metro Station, the highest metro station in the world, rises in soaring golden fins above the creek,” remarked Alabbar. 

“It is the kind of front door that tells every client, every candidate and every investor exactly what kind of company works here,” he noted.

“The world's great malls ask you to visit. Dubai Square invites you to belong. Set to impress the world, it is technologically advanced and ahead of its time: flagship retail, hospitality and entertainment beneath a sculptural, daylit canopy of golden shells,” he stated.

“Unlike a traditional enclosed mall, Dubai Square extends into the city. Its boulevards spill out into the streets where your offices stand, so lunch, a client dinner or a flagship boutique is never more than a few steps away. It brings together,” he added.

According to Emaar, Dubai Square is being developed as an open-air retail and mixed-use destination, with boulevards extending into surrounding streets and connecting shops, restaurants and offices.

The development will feature drive-through shopping, multiple entrances and exits, and direct access to Icon Plaza and the Iconic Metro Station. It will bring together retail, dining, entertainment, hospitality, residential and office space in an integrated urban district, it added.

Dubai Creek Harbour's planned business district will be supported by hotels, parks, residential communities and waterfront amenities, as Emaar seeks to position the development as a major commercial hub.

Four hotels are planned around Dubai Square, with a further eight across the wider masterplan. The district will also include three parks, forming part of a network of 15 parks and four ecological green corridors. Open spaces will account for 13% of the masterplan, stated the master developer.

“The wider development is planned to accommodate about 200,000 residents across more than 200 residential towers and 75,500 homes. Supporting facilities will include seven schools, 14 nurseries, two hospitals, 25 clinics, 11 mosques and more than 70 community shops. Residential plots will be within a five-minute walk of Dubai Square, explained Alabbar.

Waterfront amenities will include a 4.5-km promenade and a 600-metre urban beach along the creek. The area is also home to 450 species of flora and fauna, he noted.

Alabbar said the company aimed to create an office destination that would attract ambitious companies from around the world, rather than simply develop a conventional business district.

"We did not set out to build an office district. We set out to build the address every ambitious company in the world dreams of. Dubai Square is that address," he added.-TradeArabia News Service