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05/12/2007 Entry: "World's Biggest Mall Coming to Dubai"

Dubai will create the world's largest shopping area, providing 17 times more retail space than Mall of the Emirates, currently the biggest shopping mall in the city.

The planned retail zone will be part of Bawadi, the Dh100-billion hospitality and leisure zone in Dubailand, Dubai's Dh235-billion tourism project that will host a number of Las Vegas-style hotels and Disneyland-type theme parks.

"The world's largest shopping area will offer over 40 million square feet of gross leaseable area (GLA)," a Dubai Holding statement said yesterday.

Bawadi, which will have 29,000 rooms in its 31 hotels by 2016, is being developed by Dubai Holding unit Tatweer. MORE