Emaar has announced plans for a large-scale commercial and office district at Dubai Creek Harbour, describing it as a 300,000-square-metre development with a total value of AED 12 billion. The project, named Dubai Square Business District, will wrap around Dubai Square and sit adjacent to the new Dubai Creek Tower.
“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. We did not set out to build an office district. We set out to build the address every ambitious company in the world dreams of. Dubai Square is that address,” Mohamed Alabbar, founder of Emaar said in a statement.
The district is designed around direct metro access. Two 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 across Dubai to reach the district without a car.
Dubai Square itself is described by the company as an open-format retail and hospitality destination, with outdoor boulevards extending into surrounding streets. The design includes 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.
Emaar says the residential areas 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.
Dubai Creek Tower, whose form and final height have not been detailed in the announcement, is positioned by Emaar as a defining landmark for the development and a signal of the district’s global ambitions.
