Posted on 07/09/2014 5:20:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dubai is already home to the tallest tower in the world, so it was just a matter of time until the glitzy emirate planned another record-breaking construction.
Its next project involves building the largest shopping mall on the planet, complete with climate-controlled streets, the world's largest indoor theme park and 100 hotels and apartments.
In fact, the ambitious emirate has dubbed the project a 'temperature-controlled pedestrian city'.
Occupying 48 million square feet, the Mall of the World will also contain health resorts, theatres, a Celebration Steet modelled on the Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona and 'retail streets network' that will stretch over four-and-a-half miles.
The grand project is part of Dubai's bid to become a year-round tourism destination, despite soaring temperatures in summer that can reach nearly 50C.
The new mall, which will be a city-within-a-city, will be the emirate's chance to attract visitors even in the height of the summer, by providing a completely climate-controlled experience.
The shopping mall itself will occupy eight million square feet, housed below a glass dome, with other attractions extending beyond the central shopping area.
In the cooler winter months, the dome will open, allowing people to shop in the fresh air, closing as the summer heats up....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
...with a ski slope in the food court...
why?
Y not?
Let them do it. They cannot do it on their own so they have to hire outside help and that means throwing their money outside their country. Dubai produces nothing except oil so all the shops are foreign owned. The sheiks have so much money they can afford to throw it away. It is only a matter of time before they are bankrupt.
running out of ways to piss all that money away.
I’d venture a guess they don’t even ‘produce’ their own oil, and let western companies do that.
A climate controlled city in the desert built by slaves for tourists...
Does this seem mad?
Think of the carbon footprint.
The two largest malls are in China. The next two largest are here in the Philippines. SM is building a new mall in Cebu city. I have heard that it will be the largest.
Not so bad for a third world country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls_in_the_world
Heck ya, let them do it first so we can learn from their mistakes. Then, when we get off our asses we can do it better.
‘48 million square feet’ = 1100 acres.
Here in the US, I believe the future of most malls is conversion to public housing.
Having visited Dubai a couple of times I'm somewhat familiar with the city.I think I recall that Dubai,specifically,doesn't have a lot of oil while one or two of the other emirates of the UAE have a good deal of oil.Dubai today is a financial center,an oasis of calm in a dangerous part of the world and a playground for rich princes from Saudi,Kuwait,Qatar and surrounding areas.It's also a destination for westerners as well.It's an amazing city and has far more construction cranes than I saw in London or Dublin during their booming years last decade...just before the crash.
Enough to run one heck of a lot of air conditioning, I hope.
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Prototype for a city on Mars, perhaps. Or perhaps the best paintball court in the world when the oil bubble finally pops. Could go either way.
So it would seem.
How many Guatemalans can it house?
Because they can. They also built houses in the Persian Gulf, because they can. It isn't always the best and most intelligent thing to do, but they do it, because they can.
Hundreds of thousands, one would think.
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