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Article: And from Abu Dhabi...
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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AS THE POPULATION of the UAE increases so too do the facilities required to keep these, mainly expatriate residents, happy. Neil Mitchenall, chairman of the retail and leisure specialist Lunson Mitchenall, is concentrating on development in Abu Dhabi where there is no sign of any drawdown in the market.
I have a confession to make, "the speed and sheer enormity of the development programme in Dubai has always worried me but what has been achieved is quite outstanding--the product of enormous ingenuity and drive. But for all that, I still have this niggling concern in the back of my brain that near infinite supply needs near infinite demand.
Unlike Dubai ...