{"id":15292,"date":"2014-07-06T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dubai-to-build-world-s-biggest-shopping-center\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:14:18","slug":"dubai-to-build-world-s-biggest-shopping-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dubai-to-build-world-s-biggest-shopping-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai to Build World’s Biggest Shopping Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The shopping-loving city that is home to one of the world’s largest shopping malls wants to build one even bigger.}}<\/p>\n

Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has laid out plans for a sprawling real-estate project known as Mall of the World that will include the 8 million square foot (743,224 square meter) mall, a climate-controlled street network, a theme park covered during the scorching summer months and 100 hotels and serviced apartments.<\/p>\n

Other attractions planned for the site include a cultural and theater district drawing inspiration from New York’s Broadway, shopping thoroughfares based on London’s Oxford Street and a “wellness district” meant to attract medical tourists.<\/p>\n

“The growth in family and retail tourism underpins the need to enhance Dubai’s tourism infrastructure as soon as possible,” Sheik Mohammed said in a statement announcing the project Saturday. <\/p>\n

“This project complements our plans to transform Dubai into a cultural, tourist and economic hub for the 2 billion people living in the region around us \u2014 and we are determined to achieve our vision.”<\/p>\n

Dubai Holding, a conglomerate controlled by the emirate’s ruler, is developing the complex. It gave no details on the cost or the completion date.<\/p>\n

The complex will be built near the Mall of the Emirates, which boasts an indoor ski slope, and a short drive from the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, and the adjacent Dubai Mall. <\/p>\n

That shopping center is currently the emirate’s largest and has attractions including a dinosaur skeleton, an indoor ice skating rink and a multistory aquarium.<\/p>\n

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T{hese images provided by Dubai Holding on Saturday July 5, 2014, shows an artist rendition of their planned Mall of the World project that will include an 8 million square foot (743,224 square meter) mall, a climate-controlled street network, a theme park covered during the scorching summer months and 100 hotels and serviced apartments. <\/p>\n

Dubai Holding, a conglomerate controlled by the emirate’s ruler, is developing the complex. It gave no details on the cost or the completion date.}<\/p>\n

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