2024-05-01T19:04:36-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150142995/nearly-two-decades-in-the-making-dubai-s-palm-jumeirah-nears-completion Alexander Walter 2019-06-24T15:49:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/51/51a81e41bda0c1e64988bd2e26a72a5b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Palm Jumeirah has been Dubai&rsquo;s most enduring work in progress for two decades. Now developer Nakheel is adding the finishing touches. Several major additions to the world&rsquo;s biggest man-made island are approaching completion as it transitions from a near-perpetual construction site to a near-finished community&mdash;with hundreds of shops and restaurants set to open in the year ahead.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"Among the latest additions are a shopping mall and a tower that will form the centerpiece of the island, located close to the site originally earmarked for a 48-story Trump Tower," reports&nbsp;<em>Mansion Global</em>.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b5/b506842a057786dc7b0bf5c1b11ece07.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b5/b506842a057786dc7b0bf5c1b11ece07.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Palm Jumeirah in 2012. Photo: Richard Schneider/Wikipedia.</figcaption></figure><p>Meanwhile next door, the hyperambitious and once-declared-dead-but-now-happening-again <em>The World</em> artificial archipelago of 300 islands is reportedly seeing <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150050044/the-world-is-coming-back-to-life-in-dubai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">revived development</a> again.<br></p>