Local developer Meydan has invited companies to bid for the contract to build its Crystal Lagoons Towers in Dubai.

The project involves building two mixed-use towers with 36 and 37 floors sitting on top of a common basement and podium. The total built-up area is about 250,000 square metres.

The consultant is US-based AE7.

Meydan is working on a range of projects across Dubai. Nad al-Sheba is Meydan’s prime area of focus for new projects. In early August, it released details of its Meydan One project, which will include a 711-metre-tall tower, a marina and a shopping mall, as well as the world’s longest indoor ski slope.

The local Meydan City Corporation announced the 3.7-square-kilometre project after it was officially approved by UAE Vice-President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum on 3 August.

The development will be home to more than 78,300 residents and feature the 711-metre-tall Dubai One tower, the Meydan One Mall, a 1.2-kilometre ski slope, a 25,000-square-metre indoor sports arena, a civic plaza large enough to host 60,000 people, a 4km canal and a 100-berth marina.

There will also be a 300-metre-long beach. In October 2013, Crystal Lagoons signed a deal to construct the world’s largest manmade lagoon at the development. The 40-hectare lagoon is so large it will have its own beaches.

Meydan is also developing Mohammed bin Rashid City – District One  with its joint venture partner, India’s Sobha Group, in the Nad al-Sheba area. That project includes 1,500 villas.

In addition, Meydan is developing the 100-plus-storey Entisar tower on Sheikh Zayed Road. In late 2014, Saudi Arabia’s El-Seif Engineering Contracting was selected for the construction contract.

In late 2013, Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) signed an agreement with Meydan and Meraas Holding for the two local developers to build real estate projects on either side of the Dubai Water Canal project.

One of the schemes is the Canal Gate Tower, which will be built on the banks of the canal on Sheikh Zayed Road. The tower is a mixed-use development that comprises more than 3.5 million square feet. It will consist of 468 apartments, 470 serviced apartments and 617 hotel rooms, as well as more than 400,000 sq ft of retail space and 735,000 sq ft of commercial office space.

Another planned scheme is a shopping mall that will straddle the canal with an enclosed multi-level retail bridge containing shops, restaurants and entertainment venues.