Other facilities at the heart of Dubai's new airport are being built in tandem with the airport, and when all the work is completed, Dubai World Central will be a mini-city. These facilities include Business City, Logistics City, Residential City, Jebel Ali Port, Golf Courses and Corporate Parks. Upon completion of all facilities, 900,000 people will live and work here. The Commercial City of "Dubai World Central" will be built in 5 phases and will cover an area of 14.53 million square meters after completion, consisting of 850 commercial buildings of 6-75 floors, with the number of residents exceeding 130,000 people, in addition to the construction of the supporting residential areas, and specially prepared for the bosses of the company. Luxury villas. The first phase will be completed by the end of 2009. The commercial city will also have 25 hotels ranging from 3-star to 5-star, and land will be sold to real estate developers for the development of service facilities consistent with the design concept and function of the entire world center.
Logistics CityThe Logistics City, which covers 25 square kilometers, is expected to be completed at the same time as the new airport and be operational by the end of 2007. The Logistics City will be the world's first logistics platform to combine an airport, seaport and duty-free environment. The Logistics City aims to become a logistics and distribution center for more than two billion residents throughout the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, Africa and the CIS countries. These regions are all within three to four hours sailing distance from Dubai. By design, Logistics City will be able to handle 12 million tons of air cargo per year from 16 air cargo terminals.
Logistics City will have its own dedicated terminal area, which will be able to accommodate 40,000 workers, and will be highly automated using the most advanced equipment available in the logistics industry today. The Logistics City will also feature 350,000 square meters of employee living quarters, making it a new model for employee security. In addition, the city will feature state-of-the-art commercial buildings to house trading companies, distributors and logistics management companies, as well as a comprehensive electronic customs clearance system. Residential City "Dubai World Central" Residential City covers an area of 7.16 million square meters, has been opened at the end of 2006 in three phases, mainly includes ordinary residential, luxury apartments, hospitals, entertainment and sports centers and schools. In cooperation with the Harvard Medical School in the United States, a total investment of $1.8 billion will be made to establish a multi-purpose center that will include global healing as well as medical education and research. The project, which is scheduled to be operational in 2009, will be the first time that Harvard Medical School has established its first post-graduate or higher education institution outside the United States.
The center will also be the world's largest entertainment and sports center, with a variety of entertainment and sports facilities on land larger than the size of the Manhattan area. It will showcase music, dance, art, film, television and dining from around the world; and in addition to a large, modern 60,000-seat stadium, the most breathtaking feature will be an indoor, man-made snow recreation facility that will offer skiing and other winter sports.
The center will also feature two standard 18-hole golf courses, allowing those who work and live here to enjoy a luxury lifestyle that is quite different from traditional desert living. By the end of 2008, the center will have invested in the development of 2,500 real estate properties around the golf courses, ranging from 2-story villas to 24-story condominium towers, a project that is expected to take two years. The center will also build a large green space and a luxury club with a hotel and shopping mall. In terms of cargo, the volume of cargo in the first quarter of this year increased by 26% over the same period last year to 208,000 tons. In terms of takeoffs and landings, 40,393 planes took off and landed at **** in the first quarter, up 16 percent from the same period last year.
The airport is big, but you will never be unable to find your way around Dubai's airports are lined up from east to west in profile, and free electric transportation is available from east to west.