The Tallest Building And Largest Mall

An Arab nation enters the biggest-and-tallest sweepstakes at this year's Expo Real.

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September 15, 2004, 9:00 AM PDT

Emaar Properties, an $8 billion publicly traded real estate company listed on the Dubai stock exchange, "is planning to showcase Burj Dubai, a planned new urban development that it claims will be include world's tallest building, eclipsing current record-holding structures and the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero... The 20-acre Burj Dubai complex, which features a man-made lake, will also include the "largest mall in the world," a 9 million square foot shoppers' paradise. The developers say they expect the mall to attract 35 million visitors in the first year of operation."

Thanks to Peter Slatin

Read the full story: Mideast Taller Tale

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 in The Slatin Report

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