{"id":35864,"date":"2012-11-25T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_dubai_plans_the_worlds_largest_shopping_center\/"},"modified":"2012-11-25T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:00:55","slug":"reuters_dubai_plans_the_worlds_largest_shopping_center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35864","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Dubai Plans the World&#39;s Largest Shopping Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai announced plans for a huge tourism and retail development including the largest shopping mall in the world, a fresh sign that the glitzy emirate has recovered its commercial ambitions after a crippling corporate debt crisis three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The development, on the outskirts of Dubai&#8217;s current downtown area, will include a park 30 percent bigger than Hyde Park in London, said Dubai&#8217;s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, also prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>A retail complex named the &#8220;Mall of the World&#8221; will be able to host 80 million visitors a year and include over 100 hotel facilities, Sheikh Mohammed said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/11\/24\/us-emirates-dubai-development-idUSBRE8AN0BN20121124\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai announced plans for a huge tourism and retail development including the largest shopping mall in the world, a fresh sign that the glitzy emirate has recovered its commercial ambitions after a crippling corporate debt crisis three years ago. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35864\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,582,149,119,203,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-globalization","category-middle-east","category-uae-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}