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Al Jaddaf is the old dhow-building shore of the creek turned into a district of new apartment buildings, ten minutes from Downtown and ten from the airport, with a Metro station at its edge and prices that belong to the far suburbs.
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The area
Al Jaddaf is the old dhow-building shore of the creek turned into a district of new apartment buildings, ten minutes from Downtown and ten from the airport, with a Metro station at its edge and prices that belong to the far suburbs. It is one of the city's quiet bargains, and the people who have found it tend to have been looking for something else. The name most likely means "the rower", from the verb to row, for the dhow yard that was here.
The district lies on the creek's southern bank between Bur Dubai and the airport, opposite Festival City, with the dhow yards still working at its waterline. The waterfront has been rebuilt as a promenade with a park, an arts centre and a set of residential and hotel buildings looking across the water; behind it, the district's inland streets have filled with mid-rise apartment buildings from a wide range of developers. Culture Village, the developer-built quarter along the water with its own guide, and Dubai Healthcare City are its immediate neighbours.
Apartments in mid-rise buildings, most of them recent, from studios to family layouts, with the creek-facing buildings at the top of the market and the inland streets carrying the volume. Developers range from the city's largest to the smallest, and the buildings differ accordingly in finish, management and parking. There are no villas and few towers of real height.
The Metro's Green Line stops at the district's edge and at the creek, which makes this one of the few affordable districts with a real station in walking distance of many homes. By road, Al Khail Road and the Oud Metha corridor reach Downtown, Business Bay, the airport and the old city in short runs, and the creek crossings connect to Deira and Festival City. The Marina is far. Traffic on the district's approaches is heavy at the peak; inside it the streets are quieter than the location suggests.
The waterfront carries the district's pleasures: the promenade, the park, the arts centre and the hotels' restaurants. The inland streets carry supermarkets, pharmacies, cafes and the services of a working district, and Festival City's mall is across the creek by car. The district has a well-regarded international school inside it and more in Healthcare City and the older districts nearby, with nurseries in the residential blocks. The hospitals next door are a convenience the rest of the city drives to.
People who work in the old city, the airport, Healthcare City or Downtown and want a new flat within a short run of all of them at a price the newer suburbs charge for the commute. Families who value the school and the hospitals. Investors who want central yields without central prices, and who have made the district one of the busier letting markets on this side of the creek.
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