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The Palm Jumeirah Dubai's Monorail. The Palm Jumeirah Monorail is a 5.4-kilometre-long (3.4 mi) monorail connecting the Atlantis Hotel to the Gateway Towers at the foot of the island. [11] [12] The monorail connects The Palm Jumeirah Dubai to the mainland, with a planned further extension to the Red Line of the Dubai Metro. [13]
The Boracay Mansion was an unfinished residential building in the northern part of the New Manila neighbourhood of Quezon City, Philippines. Formerly owned by Joseph Estrada , the 13th President of the Philippines and former Mayor of Manila , the house was reportedly built for his mistress , former film actress Laarni Enríquez.
Snippet of the Google Street View, showing the house under construction, 2014. Originally named as the "Quezon City Executive House" [1] meant to serve as an official residence of the Mayor of Quezon City and host foreign dignitaries and other guests of the local government, work on the property formally broke ground on April 5, 2013, and covered two stages.
Kabir Mulchandani is an Indian-born, Dubai-based real estate and hospitality businessman and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of FIVE Holdings, which includes FIVE Hotels and Resorts; FIVE Palm Jumeirah, FIVE Jumeirah Village, FIVE Zurich, FIVE LUXE, and FIVE Music along with The Pacha Group.
By early October 2007, 20% of the initial palm island's reclamation was complete, with a total of 200 million cubic metres (7.1 billion cubic feet) of sand already used. Then in early April 2008, Nakheel announced that more than a quarter of the total area of the Palm Deira had been reclaimed.
The Palm Islands consist of three artificial archipelagos: Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Islands (formerly known as Palm Deira or Deira Islands), and Palm Jebel Ali, [1] on the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Palm Islands were constructed around the same time as The World Islands. Nakheel Properties is the Palm Islands real estate developer. [2]
Jumeirah was established in 1997 and became a part of Dubai Holding in 2004, which is owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, the group manages 26 properties, including beachfront resorts, city hotels, and luxury serviced residences across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
Dubai is perhaps most well known for land reclamation projects such as the Palm Islands, the World Islands, the Dubai Marina, and the Burj Al Arab. Most major land reclamation projects in Dubai have occurred in the past fifteen years, [when?] and the Burj Al Arab hotel, which is built on a man-made island, was started in 1994 and completed in 1999.