Downtown Dubai, a magnificent development of the Emaar Properties and the real beauty of Dubai real estate, offers the perfect blend of city life and tranquillity. This large-scale complex, which covers an area of 2 square kilometres, is meant for mixed use. Downtown Dubai, the chic urban lifestyle project previously known as Downtown Burj Dubai, is ideally located along Sheikh Zayed hotel bounded to the Northeast by Financial Centre road and to the south by Business Bay. This huge development accommodates more than 100,000 people in its spacious and mixed-use apartments.

Downtown Dubai, an integral part of ‘New Dubai’, has the honour of playing home to the world’s most famous and the largest landmarks including Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world), Dubai Mall (the largest shopping mall), and Dubai Fountain (the record setting fountain system of Dubai). Encased by an artificial lake and buildings offering luxury in the true sense, makes Downtown Dubai the perfect blend of city life and tranquillity. The development offers studio, one-four bedroom apartments, villas, townhouses, penthouses, shops, and supermarkets, matching people’s needs and tastes of elegant urban lifestyle.

This massive development consists of 11 projects, which include Burj Khalifa, Burj Park Island, The Address Downtown Dubai, Dubai Fountain, and Dubai Mall. The Old Town and the Old Town Island are low-rise residential areas whereas the Emaar Square is a low-rise commercial area. The Residences, South Ridge, and Emaar Boulevard make high-rise residential towers in Downtown Dubai.

Burj Khalifa is the real centrepiece of the development, standing 828m tall, which makes it the tallest and the most luxurious skyscraper of our times. Dubai Fountain, a 275-metre long fountain, is illuminated by 50 projectors and 6600 lights and when it shoots the water at the height of 150 meters, the peace and the tranquillity it spreads in the air cannot be described in words.

Dubai Mall is the best and the biggest shopping spot for tourists with over 1200 shops including 600 retail outlets offering the best shopping items that can surpass shoppers’ expectations. This Mall is equal to the size of 50 soccer fields and hosts an exclusive collection of trendy boutiques, fashion shops, cosmetic store, electronic stores, bookshops, hobby stores, and music stores. Souk Al Bahar and Gold Souk at Dubai Mall are the renowned shopping places in Downtown Dubai.

Besides the most enticing and eye-catching views of the tallest Burj Khalifa, Downtown Dubai residences offer a wide array of the amenities not only available in the development but also in the nearby areas. Its malls offer the best dinning, shopping, and recreational opportunities while the residential space offers the prefect blend of luxury and style through its gyms, sauna, spas, cafes, coffee bars, and restaurants. Downtown Dubai is served by Burj Khalifa/ Dubai Mall metro station, which provide the ultimate solution to the traffic jams.

Some of the renowned hotels in Downtown Dubai include Radisson Blu Hotel, Ramada Downtown Dubai, The Address Downtown Dubai and Burj Dubai Armani Hotel. These hotels are the beauty of the development and offer low cost luxurious stay to the tourists. Downtown Dubai is the real charm of Dubai real estate, since it favours buyers through it’s outclass lifestyle and favours investors through high returns on their investments.

Burj Khalifa has become Dubai’s new icon and is known as one of the most popular structures on the face of the world today. With a height of 829.84 m, the tower stands as the tallest structure in the world so far. As soon as it was launched in September 2004, Burj Khalifa gained tremendous coverage. It took almost 6 years for the tower to complete before it was inaugurated in January 2010.

Among the developments in Downtown Dubai, Burj Khalifa is the prime most. It offers various features, amenities and services that have made its residents proud. The projects and properties located near Burj are experiencing a rise in prices. It is also a fact that Burj Khalifa has contributed in stabilising Dubai real estate as well as increasing its overall worth. Most of all, Burj Khalifa has defined the outlook of Downtown Dubai and is magnetizing a huge number of people who visit Dubai throughout the year.

Various factors combine to make Burj Khalifa a highly desirable place to live in, work at or shop from. There are more than 160 floors in the Burj and a well defined plan for each floor makes it perfect for the preset use. Different floors are reserved for lobbies, corporate suites, apartments, hotels, and restaurants. For mechanical use, maintenance, and media broadcast, separate floors are reserved which can only be accessed by the concerned people.

To maintain the security for the residents and visitors of Burj Khalifa, ample measures have been taken by the authorities. Along with surveillance cameras and security staff, special cards are required to access certain floors. These cards allow the card holder to land on specified floors in the residential unit and thus keep the non-residents out of these floors.

Some of the more popular hotels and restaurants that attract people to the Burj Khalifa Dubai Downtown area on regular basis include: At.mosphere, Baker & Spice, BiCE Mare, Al Samadi Café and Sweet Shop, Asado, Baja Fresh, Carluccio’s, Entrecote Café de Paris, Ember Grill & Lounge, Ewaan, Hukama, and Armani Hotel.

Out of the many things which make Downtown Dubai one of the best districts of Dubai, Dubai Mall is a noticeable one. It is inarguably the world's largest shopping mall and holds many fine records in retail history of the world. The mall opened in Nov, 2008. Today, it receives thousands of avid retail customers on daily basis. Dubai Mall is perhaps the only mall of the world where despite the economic crises, a noticeable increase is observed in the number of people who shop here every year. It is quite interesting to note that almost 54 million people visited the Dubai mall in 2011.

Developments like Dubai Mall are the reason why value and demand of Downtown Dubai property has stabilized. The retail and amusement activities in Downtown Dubai in general and Dubai Mall in particular are always seen on rise. The mall boasts Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, which has the World's Largest Acrylic Panel. There is about 10 million litres of water in this aquarium, which is home to over 150 species of marine animals. Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo is the best attraction at Dubai Mall. It offers wild experiences such as cage snorkelling as well as many underwater games.

Since Dubai targets foreigners and wealthy families from across the globe, such malls keep people pouring in the city. In fact, projects like these have kept Dubai real estate alive and thriving. It is an established fact strict law, its proper implication and thus a peaceful and modest ambience of Dubai has made the city perfect for wealthy families from Europe, Australia, Canada, America and Asia and consequently more real estate development is done to accommodate these people. All of these factors combine to elevate the value and demand of Dubai properties.