Set in an incredible 800-hectare development, International City is a pre-designed complex that will be a world-class hub for international investor, traders and retailers from across the globe. Providing excellent business opportunities, superb tourist attractions and a selection of unique residential options with varied country themes, International City's scale and scope is matched only by its ambition and purpose.

Years of feasibility studies resulted in the conceptual formulation of International City, which will play host to more than 60,000 residents. This community will blend in with an equally critical aspect of International City's conception - tourism. Incredible replicas of iconic structure like the Forbidden City are recreated in intricate detail. With Dubai playing host to five million visitors annually, a figure that is excepted to doubled by 2007, International City promises to be an incredible melting-pot of world culture, commerce and lifestyle.

JInternational City's bustling Central District is spread over 21 hectares and complete with infrastructure of the highest standards. With security and service systems firmly in place, the multi-purpose Central District will be the nerve centre of International City's commercial activity and also house a variety of residential and leisure amenities.

Ample space is available for wholesalers and retailers to set up shop and thrive in regulated market conditions. The Central District will comprise of 34 plots that will be sold to independent developers. The owners have the flexibility to develop their own projects. Eleven-storey office and residential blocks with retail outlets on the ground floors and basement car parking for 130 cars each will predominate the development. An impressive 30-40 floor feature tower covering 50,000 square metres will house corporate offices and also have a mall at its base.