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this is made in one dubai's colossal
plan to build a brand new city maiden
one was planned to be one of dubai's
biggest development projects in history
from a massive shopping mall to the
world's largest indoor ski slope this
city had it all but six years after the
project began it's beginning to fall
apart the state-owned developer has
filed for bankruptcy and does not have
enough money to finish the project with
four billion dollars in debt how will
this all unfold and will dubai's biggest
project ever see the light of day again
maiden one was proposed in 2013 and was
planned to be a brand new city directly
next to dubai featuring everything a
normal city would have but at a much
larger scale this project was being
developed by the maiden group a
state-owned developer the project is
broken down into many different phases
with the entire project being called
district one the first phase of district
one is something called maiden sopa
which is the residential development
phase of the project this includes a
massive artificial lake separating the
villas which can accommodate kayaks and
paddle boats next to the villas will be
made in one mall which will be one of
the biggest malls in dubai bringing
along nearly 600 shops 100 restaurants
and the largest ski slope in the world
this mall is incredible surrounding the
mall will be the maiden one tower set to
be the tallest residential tower in the
world it's no surprise that this project
is massive and doesn't even seem
realistically possible but in a city
like dubai projects like this actually
do become a reality as we've seen with
many other mega projects in the city all
of these plans were settled in 2015 with
dubai wanting the entire project
completed by 2020 when they were set to
host the world expo construction moved
forward with an extremely sharp deadline
pressure was on to build an entire city
in just 5 years
things were looking great for the
project but as time went on it became
apparent that the project was just too
large to get done before the year of
2020.
regardless of the project's timeline due
to the global pandemic the world expo
was delayed to 2021 anyway things got
worse when the developer made in real
estate began having financial trouble in
2020 this resulted in work on the
project coming to a stop as the
developer tried to restructure their
debt since this article from bloomberg
in june of 2021 there has been complete
silence about the abandoned mall and
what its new plans are for development
in the future but this is where the
project's development gets a bit
confusing
on the other side of the complex is
project riviera which is another part of
the project as a whole but is being
developed by a separate developer
construction on this project has
continued but since it's on the complete
opposite side of the villas it almost
makes it seem as if the whole project is
being built backwards leaving a view of
the abandoned mall in the center these
apartments will border a massive
man-made lagoon similar to the ones on
the villa side going through everything
we can see that this project is
incredible but just needs a realistic
timeline to actually be completed as of
writing this video the only part of the
project that is still being developed is
by a developer known as azizi as maiden
still works to recover from the
bankruptcy caused by the mall's
development so where does the project go
from here
realistically only a very small portion
of what dubai imagined being in the city
is actually completed as of now and
there is still much uncertainty with
what direction the project will go down
in the next few years with dubai
constantly announcing more mega projects
by the year we cannot be certain that
they will come back to finish this one
and bring these rendered images to a
reality but we can assume that azizi
will finish their development leaving
roughly 25 of the entire project
completed the villa section of the
project is still under construction but
at a much slower pace based on
everything currently in progress with
the project and dubai's history of
incredible developments we can assume
that most of this project will be
eventually completed however projects
like the made in one tower and the
maiden arena may be projects that never
end up leaving the drawing board this
project was just so big that it's not
realistically possible for all of it to
be completed but through everything that
we've seen throughout the video we have
to appreciate just how incredible this
project really is and just hope that
someday some of it will eventually be
brought to a reality through many years
of planning and billions of dollars in
development this project really was one
of a kind for dubai and the government
was very set on completing it and
showing it off to the world while it may
not have worked out exactly as planned
it's just incredible that dubai had
planned to build an entirely new city
and transform it into a tourist
attraction for decades to come only a
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