Emaar unveils AED 12bn Dubai Square Business District at Dubai Creek Harbour

UAE developer Emaar announced on Tuesday (November 10) plans for the Dubai Square Business District at Dubai Creek Harbour, a 300,000-square-metre commercial district worth AED 12 billion (about US$3.26 billion), wrapping around Dubai Square and sitting next to the new Dubai Creek Tower.

Two metro stations, linked by climate-controlled walkways

The district is designed around public transport: two metro stations will serve the site, with office buildings connected to them via climate-controlled links. A third station is planned elsewhere within Dubai Creek Harbour, alongside 17 bus stops and a 7-kilometre pedestrian loop. Emaar says the arrangement allows residents from across Dubai to reach the district without a car.

Four hotels around the square, eight across the masterplan

Dubai Square itself is described as an open-format retail and hospitality destination, with outdoor boulevards, drive-through shopping, direct access to the metro station and a canopy modelled on a cluster of sculptural golden shells. Four hotels are planned around the square, with eight across the broader masterplan. The surrounding masterplan includes more than 200 residential towers, 75,500 homes, seven schools, 14 nurseries, two hospitals and 25 clinics; homes sit within a five-minute walk of the mall. The waterfront component includes a 4.5-kilometre promenade and a 600-metre beach along the creek. The form and final height of Dubai Creek Tower have not been detailed in the announcement.

Founder: built for ambition

“Some places are built for business. This place was built for ambition. When the history of Dubai’s next chapter is written, it will be written from these towers,” Emaar founder Mohamed Alabbar said in a statement, adding that the aim was not to build an office district but “the address every ambitious company in the world dreams of.” Dubai’s big developers have launched major projects in quick succession: on Monday, Nakheel unveiled Palm Springs, a 3.8-million-square-metre residential masterplan in southern Dubai for close to 50,000 residents.