As you all know the Golden Mile retail area is now advancing and I will do a separate picture gallery for this next week and hopefully find out more about what retailers have taken space.
This is the area between Al Khudrawi and Al Haseer and where the QE2 was supposes to go. The sand has been removed and is being transported over to the Golden Mile area for landscaping use.
It looks a bit of a pig at the moment but hopefully when it is flattened off and tidied up it will be much better than before.I think it would be great to see this turned into a park whilst for the next few years Nakheel get straight.
As you drive up the Palm, through the villa area, on the right hand side just past Frond F is a new Mosque.It doesn't seem too big and I presume there will be another built in the Shoreline area too.Might not be big but the speakers are huge!!
I don't know if it is true but there was a rumour that when the Palm was ready for handover the design team had forgotten to include Mosques. A small embarassment if true.
As you drive through the tunnel, onto the Crescent, it is clear that this area is really taking shape. Landscapers were out laying the main street borders and this can only mean that people will soon be living out here.
Below is the Balqis Residence which is slower in progress than some of the other developemts on the Crescent.
These are the villas that are at the front of the complex overlooking the sea.Unbeleivable view from these properties.
This is the view
Moving round towards the Marina you can see that the roads are taking shape and further on the landscaping is much more advanced.
Next is the Kempinski which you can see is ready for occupation.It looks like we know the first resident to be given keys so I will get in next week and take some internal pictures.
This is what was called the Ottoman Palace and has recently been taken over by the Jumeirah Group. I went inside this about a year ago and it will look stunning. Very Arabic and very oppulent. The dining experiences should be amazing too as at the time they told me there were 17 different places to eat.
At the end of the cresecent is the Royal Mirage which is going to look stunning.You should be able to get a boat across the water to the mainland hotel which will be novel. Little bit like Venice without the ice cream.
I hope you found this interesting and also it should give investors confidence that the Palm is going to be superb. We need a great Shopping Mall at the top end of the Shorelines and some better facilities management but as you can see it really is going in the right direction.
