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A sporting chance at Dubai Sports City |
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7/24/2006 9:06:07 AM |
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 During the merry month of May, Dubai Sports City unveiled a Riviera-style property development known as Canal Residence West with a cosmopolitan clientele in mind; hot pursuit of the sporting occasion of course has no nationality barriers. The launch ceremony took place at the Dubai International Convention Centre, which is the administrative home of DSC, the world´s first integrated purpose-built sports city.
Designed by Diar Consult, one of the Middle East region’s leading architectural firms who hold a daunting track record of excellence, Canal Residence West is positioned at the main artery of an incredible masterplan, even by Dubai’s heady standards.
Canal Residence West offers the sports enthusiast a diverse collection of carefully planned studio, one, two and three bedroom penthouse apartments amidst sports and leisure facilities on an unprecedented scale. Ladies and gentlemen you are now in the capital city of health and fitness; indeed can you take the pace?
On the days when you are feeling comparatively indolent, you may maintain the harmony between mind and physiology without wandering too far afield. Each building sports, if you’ll forgive the metaphor, a private club offering a state-of-the-art health club, steam room, jacuzzi, beauty salons and therapeutic treatments, reading, music and games rooms and business centre. Should you wish to plough a steady watery furrow at your leisure then the elevated swimming pools are the place for you and once the six-pack is firmly in place, one can disport oneself, a moratorium on metaphors will ensue, amongst the sundecks and shaded pavilions.
U.Balasubramaniam, CEO of Dubai Sports City, and an old and valued acquaintance of this publication, struck a ubiquitously positive note at the launch ceremony: “We’re very excited about launching Canal Residence West. This striking residential element of Dubai Sports City will bring sports and leisure to the forefront of peoples lives. By offering the highest level of world class sports facilities and venues on the doorstep of Canal Residence West, we will create the opportunity to live the ultimate healthy lifestyle.” As an avid sports fan, incidentally whose beloved Leeds United failed the entrance examination to the English Premiership but a few days ago, I can only concur with his sentiments.
Canal Residence West will occupy a prime central location overlooking an artfully landscaped Mediterranean style promenade. Cafes, boutiques and restaurants will sprawl the length of the waterfront generating a hive of social activity and intercommunication. Undoubtedly sport talk will figure highly on the cultural agenda in the thick of this buzzing street scene.
Returning momentarily to the subject of investment and the creature comfort and reassurance of ‘what you see is what you get’, not always apparent in this day and age, Canal Residence West has teamed up with Bureau Veritas, world leader in QHSE third party services. Bureau Veritas offers a quality accreditation monitoring service at every stage from design to delivery. This service offers peace of mind to buyers by ensuring that what has been promised is actually delivered to the highest level of quality. Bureau Veritas by their very name and raison d’etre are somewhat stringent in the course of their work.
Jogging forward on the theme of excellence, global brand sports academies and venues such as Manchester United Soccer Schools, ICC Global Cricket Academy, David Lloyd Tennis Academy, Butch Harmon School of Golf, and Ernie Els’ signature 18 hole golf course and the world-renowned Next Generation Club (health club complex), will be a mere hors d’oeuvres for the facilities that the heads, hands and feet of Canal Residence West residents will have at their disposal. Stadiums that will be the future home of the most exciting sporting occasions on the planet abound and cover every team and one to one sport that is conducted at club and international level.
Architecturally, Canal Residence West will cross borders and travel through a pageant of Mediterranean, Classic European, Venetian, Arabic and Spanish Andalusian styles with many apartments exposed to high impact views of a throbbing campus, embracing the central waterway, verdantly landscaped promenade, stadia and golf course. These apartments will benefit from spacious open-plan living and interior designed kitchens and bathrooms. The highest quality of fittings, kitchen finish and sanitary ware will also be embedded in each apartment ensuring the very best of breed interior specifications. Bureau Veritas of course are at your service in this respect. Canal Residence West is due for completion at the beginning of 2009.
We all aspire to something in our lives whether it be sporting prowess, good health, the perfect home, a great job or just plain happiness. Whatever the life objective selected, we universally wish to be at the top of our game. There are perhaps many of us who do not get the opportunity to completely fulfill our dreams, but it is dreams that spur us on to find that extra yard of pace and last ounce of stamina from an unknown source in order to reach the finishing line. There are however always opportunities and if we are in the right place at the right time we will realise them.
Raising the bar, a perfect ten for performance etc are overcooked phrases, particularly in the property industry, and as a writer I dislike them intensely when applied in the wrong context. In Dubai Sports City we have for once found an entirely appropriate context, much the same as the tabloid journalist waiting for the opportunity to pounce on an event for which he has been saving the perfect headline. Oh, whilst we are on the subject of opportunities, if you are a sporting enthusiast looking for a most appropriate place to rest your training shoes, Canal Residence West is one of them.
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