A new 37,000 square metre shopping mall is being built near to Sharjah International Airport by Alef Group, a Sharjah-based real estate developer. The company has announced that it has awarded the construction contract for the AED 210 million (US$ 57m) retail complex to UAE contractor Omis Contracting and that it expected the complex to open in April 2017. Branded ...

Cruise Arabia, the Arabian Gulf’s cruise tourism alliance, promoted the region’s 2016/2017 winter/spring cruise season at Seatrade Cruise Global 2016 in the USA this month. Sharjah is an active member of the cruise alliance, which also includes tourism authorities from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar and Oman. Seatrade Cruise Global is the leading annual global business-to-business event for the cruise industry ...

Sharjah Waterfront City, a multi-billion dollar development on Sharjah’s northeast coast announced at Cityscape Global last September, has been listed as the third largest mixed-use project in the Gulf by MEConstructionNews.com. The AED 20 billion (US$ 5.4b) project, being developed by Sharjah Oasis Real Estate Development, is Sharjah’s largest master-planned mixed-use development project to-date and will be built over 10 ...