Six major urban projects were green lit yesterday by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai.
Part of a plan to make Dubai a green and sustainable city by 2021, the projects, which are being managed by Dubai Municipality, focus on culture, sport, industry and services.
They include ‘Vertical Industrial City’, a 280-hectare site that will have residential, commercial and industrial components, as well as Gulf Safari, a 100-hectare golf complex with a training academy, state news agency WAM reported on Tuesday.
A new Convention Centre with a capacity to hold 10,000 people is also on the cards, with the complex also containing two hotels, offices and the new Mohammed Bin Rashid Library.
Dubai Steps is “a cultural and sport project with includes 500 stairs symbolising the challenges and progress of Dubai,” WAM reported.
The Hardware, Bicycles and Green Building market will be built in Warsan. Covering an area of 11 hectares, the plans include 100 shops and 53 bicycle showrooms.
Lastly, Dubai Municipality will also build an extensive network of sewerage tunnels by 2020, which will render the current 121 pumping stations used across the city obsolete.
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