Constructing an office building or mall can take a long time, from 18 months to three years.
But recently he's made much bigger bets in Vietnam and South Korea and in Beijing China, where he is building a mall.
The blast also destroyed several cars parked or standing on the main Mall Road opposite the police building.
Aside from the plainclothes police who hauled the street vendor off the mall and into a nearby building a few moments earlier, that love is evident.
But, wait, what about the other REITs, building a new shopping mall just down the street from yours.
His company recently finished a 390-unit apartment building one mile north of the National Mall and later this year plans to start on another nearby.
Inside a 25-story windowless building that rises out of the sprawling Mall of the Emirates, the interior is air-conditioned down to 29 degrees, and fresh, manmade snow covers the short, steep slopes.
Except in Portland and Minneapolis, each local government is free to make its own decisions about whether to permit the building of a new office block or shopping mall, regardless of any cost the decision imposes on neighbours.
The Dubai Mall, located at the base of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, was visited 65 million times in 2012, more than any other monument in the world.
While the Boxpark may be the first "pop-up" shopping mall made from shipping containers, it's certainly not the first building project to capitalize on their structural appeal.
In their enthusiasm for building new megaplexes, the theatre owners were egged on by the shopping-mall operators.
The family's SM Development is currently building four 38-story residential towers, called Mezza Residences, across from its SM Centerpoint mall, and claims to have sold out two towers, to be completed in 2009.
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