NewsDubai Sports City near completion
The Dubai Sports City (DSC) is not only meeting its targets but is nearing completion with a few tournaments set to take place in the first half of 2009. The Dh14.7 billion cornerstone project of Dubailand is a 50 million sq ft mixed-use development that is being built around five major sports venues and features an academies campus.
The academies campus will house football, swimming, rugby and hockey academies as well as the ICC Global Cricket Academy, the Butch Harmon School of Golf and the David Lloyd Tennis Academy.
International sporting events are scheduled to take place at the DSC cricket stadia in the first half of 2009 while the WorldHockey Academy will be handed over in March 2009, with the initial focus on delivering the Asia Cup hockey tournament in the first week of May.
The next facility to open will be the Football Academy and ICC Global Cricket Academy towards the end of the second quarter, followed by swimming, rugby and a High Performance Centre.
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Wow that will really raise the benchmark, just imagine the size of this thing. Dubai is already amongst the most developing real estate markets in the world and properties are world class now if the services too can be of such high standard it will make Dubai a place to beat.