Mohammed Bin Rashid City, also known as MBR City, is a planned mixed-use development in

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In November 2012, the

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, announced the establishment of what he termed a new "city" within Dubai. The complex was to contain four components: * Family tourism, including a park established in collaboration with

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, with an annual capacity of 35 million visitors and more than 100 hotel facilities, the largest family leisure and entertainment complex in the

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, and

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n subcontinent; * Retail, featuring the largest mall in the world, the

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; * Arts, including the largest area for art galleries in the

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region; and * Entrepreneurship and innovation. The drawings showed the allocated land for the development to be bordered by Emirates Road, Al Khail Road and

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. The complex would also include Mohammad bin Rashid Gardens and the

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, Burj Khalifa, and

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developments. In 2013, Meydan and Sobha began development of District One, a low-density luxury residential estate within MBR City, as the first phase of development. Crystal Lagoons also began construction of a 40-hectare lagoon, the world's largest man-made lagoon in the world. In 2019, a 7-bedroom villa in District One was sold for AED 90 million (US$24.5 million), making it the most expensive real estate property sold in Dubai.

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