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What's changing in MBR City

Coverage of what's changing across MBR City's communities, not what's hyper-local to one of them — kept apart from events, since the two age differently.

Meydan One Mall finally setting a date, road or infrastructure changes that affect the district as a whole, communities completing new phases — that scale of change, not a single building's news.

For what's changing inside one specific community, that content lives on that community's own site where one exists — Riviera's news page is the model this network follows as it covers more of MBR City the same way.

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Transport

Blue Line reaches 26 per cent

Construction on the Dubai Metro's Blue Line stands at 26 per cent in early September, against a target of 30 per cent by the end of the year and an opening set for 9 September 2029.

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Transport

First Blue Line tunnel, in two months

Al Wugeisha, a 2,000-tonne boring machine, broke into its first station two months after tunnelling began — more than twice the daily rate achieved on the original Metro. The line opens on 9 September 2029.

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Market

Dubai, the outlier in the forecast

Across 30 cities Savills expects prime capital values to rise 0.5% in the second half of 2026. Dubai is the one large exception in the forecast, at around minus 10%, on oversupply and geopolitical uncertainty.

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Infrastructure

Al Meydan Street: a Dh1.16bn rebuild

RTA has awarded two contracts worth Dh1.161 billion covering 17km of road and 3,700m of bridges, with two grade-separated interchanges. Completion is end-2028.

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Retail

Nad Al Sheba Gardens Mall opens

A two-storey scheme inside Meraas' Nad Al Sheba Gardens, anchored by Waitrose, with cafés, restaurants, fitness space and a nursery.

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Transport

The Gold Line is approved: 42 km, entirely underground

Dubai has approved a third metro line — 18 stations from Al Ghubaiba to Jumeirah Golf Estates, AED 34 billion, opening 9 September 2032. It interchanges with Etihad Rail at Meydan.

Construction timeline of the Dubai Metro Blue Line: 10% complete in November 2025, a 30% target for the end of 2026, and opening in September 2029, with a note that the route runs east of MBR City.

Transport

Metro Blue Line reaches 10%

Dubai's 30km, 14-station Blue Line hit 10% completion five months after breaking ground and is targeting 30% by the end of 2026, for a September 2029 opening — on a route that does not serve MBR City.