Dubai-listed Dubai Investments says its Dubai Investments Real Estate Company subsidiary has broken ground on its AED3bn ($817m) Mirdif Hills project.

The local Engineering Contracting Company (ECC) is the contractor for the mixed-use scheme which involves building 1,054 residential units, a four-star hotel with 116 rooms and 128 serviced apartments, and a 230-bed hospital. Dubai Investments says the development covers an area of about 362,000 square metres.

The project will be delivered in two phases and is expected to be completed from the fourth quarter of 2018.

MEED reported in 2015 that the UK’s JDA Architects was appointed as the lead architect on the project with the local A2Z Architecural Engineering as the consultant.