Like many properties here, Burj Dubai was sold "off-plan" or before the building was completed.
"In 2007 we bought three floors on Burj Dubai, " he told the BBC.
In Dubai City the central stump of Burj Dubai is steadily gaining height.
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Mohamed Abdul Hadi is one local investor who made millions out of Burj Dubai long before the building was completed.
But other structures still on the drawing board, including the Freedom Tower in New York City and Burj Dubai in the U.A.E.
Nakheel, a state-backed developer, said it would build another tower block that would be the tallest building in the world, even higher than today's tallest, the Burj Dubai.
The brash city-state of Dubai, one of the seven statelets that make up the United Arab Emirates, expects to inaugurate the world's tallest building, the 160-storey Burj Dubai, in 2009.
Like the Burj Al Arab and Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Burj Qatar is a stunning piece of architecture.
The fact that the Burj Khalifa in Dubai exists blows my mind it's just awesome.
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The only structure in the world that would be taller is the 2, 722-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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It will be around 558ft (170m) higher than the current tallest building, the 2, 717ft (828m) Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
It is no accident that the tallest building in the world today, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, sits mostly empty as well.
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The Burj Khalifa, Dubai, At Night.
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Burj Park, next to Dubai Mall in downtown Dubai will offer a free view of the Burj Khalifa section of the display, although access in and out of the neighbourhood is likely to be congested.
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Panama City's Trump Ocean Club, which is currently being built, has a similar sail shape to Dubai's Burj Al Arab tower.
The Burj alone can't provide Dubai real estate with an economic boost--nor will it spell its doom.
The latest featured the Burj Khalifa Centre of Now in Dubai, the tallest building in the world.
If you ever travel to Dubai, be sure to visit the Burj Al Arab, which makes Las Vegas' most opulent palaces seem like flophouses.
Multicoloured fireworks danced up and down the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.
While major property investors including London-based Enstar Capital have fled Dubai in anticipation of a total financial collapse, Emaar and the Government of Dubai are counting on speculators to take stakes in the Burj now, in anticipation of a market rebound.
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.
Building the Burj Khalifa--the world's tallest building at 162 stories--may have reflected the vision of Dubai, but hubris did not make its host state great.
Its proponents hope the grandeur of the Burj Khalifa--as it was recently renamed, for the Abu Dhabi president who's financial bailout saved Dubai late last year--will make stakeholders forget the Gulf state's crushing debt crisis.
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