Here's another crazy waterfront development in Dubai. The other week developer Nakheel announced Dubai Promenade, a new waterfront community anchored by a five-star wheel-shaped hotel.
Yes, a wheel-shaped hotel.
This is going to be right around the corner from us at the Dubai Marina. The new peninsula will feature a selection of commercial and residential towers, cafés, restaurants and retail offerings will span the length of the entire waterfront. Kind of like the Marina Walk that's already open and about one hundred yards away, but from a different development company.
Of course, the land doesn't exist for this property, so they're going to have a few months of good old "land reclamation". 750,000 tons of rock and 650,000 cubed meters of sand worth of reclamation. That's pretty environmentally sound of them. Why screw up old land when you can just make new land?
The complex will house 10,000 residents, have 270,000 square feet of retail space, 182,990 square feet of office space, and probably about 8 parking spots (if it's anything like its neighbor the Marina Walk).
Oh and did I mention a five-star wheel-shaped hotel?
Insane.
