Business Bay

Business Bay is a city development projects in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Will be built on an area of ​​nearly 6,000 acres, extending from the Al Khail Road in the east along the previously artificially extended to 10 km Dubai Creek to the Sheik Zayed Road in the west.

In the 6- kilometer Urbanisationszone themselves are to once stretch 230-260 high rise buildings and skyscrapers in the sky. Business Bay - unlike the name suggests - but not a mere business zone, but should get aware of the character of a mixed-use zone with tight integration of working, living, shopping and leisure. The project developers call the quarters Lower Manhattan and Tokyo Ginza as desired models. Business Bay will form another Free Zone in Dubai, in which international companies to settle.

Planning

The planned city is bordered to the south as well as new Downtown Dubai, which is marked by the Burj Khalifa. Nevertheless, Business Bay is advertised with the slogan "The region 's business capital ", also with reference to the relatively short distance from the new Dubai International Financial Centre, the Dubai Financial Free Trade Area.

According to the plans of the developer Dubai Properties Group, only about 15.3 % pure office complexes should be, but 21.7 % can be realized as residential towers and the rest in mixed use. At a cost of 30 billion U.S. dollars are in this centrally located residential area even up to 270,000 people work and live. The infrastructure provides almost the whole range of facilities before that make up a city within the city: in greenery embedded houses and public buildings, commercial security offerings ( "Security" ), adequate shopping and restaurants, kindergartens, schools and other social and medical facilities, to parks, hotels, sports facilities, a golf course and recreational facilities. As a special feature here come the many public riparian zones to stroll by the creek channel and its tributaries, the water surfaces expand up to 400 meters in width.

Construction projects, concepts of time

Business Bay was started in 2005, the Creek extension (currently only up to the Sheik Zayed Road) was teilgeflutet 2008, followed by continuously flooded 2011 to Creek entrance. The first buildings, an ensemble of twelve " Executive Towers " were handed over in early 2009. Due to the financial crisis, some construction projects were shut down or deleted, but already partially resumed since 2010. According to the original date ideas Business Bay should be completed by 2015, essentially.

According to current plans are from the mass of mid-high rise buildings, some taller towers or compact high-rise ensemble stand out:

  • Burj Al Alam
  • Emirates Park Towers
  • The Skyscraper ( Dubai)
  • Churchill Towers
  • The Vision Tower
  • The Citadel (Dubai )
  • Iris Bay ( Dubai)
  • The Bay Gate
  • Ubora Towers
  • The Prism ( Dubai)
  • Al Manara
  • One Business Bay
  • Executive Towers (12 towers, completed in 2009 )
  • The Forum (Dubai )
  • The Regal Tower
  • The Court (Dubai )
  • Park Lane Tower (Dubai )
  • Sky Tower 1
  • The Oberoi Business Bay
  • Bayswater (Dubai )
  • Crystal Tower (Dubai )
  • Ontario Tower (Dubai )
  • The Exchange (Dubai )
  • The Conclave (Dubai )
  • The Binary ( Dubai)
  • Business Tower
  • West Bay Tower
  • XL Tower
  • The Peninsula (Dubai )
  • B2B Tower
  • Dancing Towers (4 flame-shaped towers)

Transport concept

Business Bay has very good road links from all directions, Dubai Metro connection but only at the western tip ( Sheik Zayed Road, Business Bay Station ). The center and the eastern part of the long-drawn area will become available through bus lines.

According to the concept " Dubai 2015" is the district also pattern community for the use of ships: the new artificial Creek channel routes can watercraft up to 60 meters length. Business Bay could thus be operated to a large extent both supplies, waste disposal and the passenger transport through the branched duct system. Southwest later joined the channel planned well laced district Mohammed bin Rashid Gardens will connect, so that then leads to interesting links from waterways. Once the planned Creek extension is completed for another 4 kilometers to the coast of Jumeirah, the inner waterways network has a two-sided sea port.

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