Dubai Festival City

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Dubai Festival City is a large residential, business and entertainment development in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Touted as a "city-within-a-city", Festival City is the Middle East's largest mixed-use development: all elements for work, living, and leisure will be contained within the project. Once completed Festival City will comprise a series of residential communities, numerous hotels, malls, a golf course and other entertainment sites, and a full suite of public services, including schools.

Festival City was begun in 2003, under the auspices of the Al-Futtaim Group, and total development time is estimated at 12 years. The project spans 3.8 kilometres of water frontage on the eastern bank of Dubai Creek and is 2 kilometers from Dubai International Airport. As of mid-2006, investments in the project had exceeded 11 billion AED (3 billion USD)