01 October 2005

Dubai Festival City (DFC), the mixed-use development taking shape on the banks of the Dubai Creek, is finalising core construction of its signature 29-storey premium-grade office building, Festival Tower.

Connected to the iconic convention hotel, InterContinental Dubai Festival City and its state-of-the-art 48,000 sq ft convention centre, Festival Tower will offer 450,000 sq ft of stylish commercial office space, ample parking and access to some of the emirate’s best meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition (MICE) facilities.
The tower is rising up adjacent to the Festival Centre waterfront retail and leisure hub, which allows unrivalled access to over 90 fashionable restaurants and cafes, within a Riviera-style setting, says a spokesman for DFC.
Festival Tower is due to open in the four quarter of 2006, and the building can already be seen rising from the waterfront project with the core utilities structure now complete.
Meanwhile, construction on DFC's core hospitality cluster, which includes the 318-room Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City as well as InterContinental properties, is well under way with over 50 per cent of the intended site on reclaimed land.
Construction of the first five levels of the 33-storey InterContinental flagship property has started and the initial floors of the 18-storey Crowne Plaza hotel are about to commence with piling and foundation work for the convention centre nearing completion.
Dubai Festival City is being developed over 1,600 acres on the banks of Dubai's historic Creek. by the Al-Futtaim Group.
Construction is well advanced on other components of the project such as the Al Badia Golf Resort, an 18-hole championship golf course; phase one of the Mediterranean-style apartments and town homes surrounding the course; and Festival Centre, the 2.6 million sq ft retail, dining and entertainment centre.

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