Trump’s Dubai golf expansion gets delayed until at least 2022

  • Date: 01-Mar-2021
  • Source: Gulf Business
  • Sector:Real Estate
  • Country:UAE
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Trump’s Dubai golf expansion gets delayed until at least 2022

The Trump Organization's website has long listed the Trump World Golf Club in the expat hub of Dubai as "coming soon.“

But four years after it was supposed to open for business, the 18-hole course designed by Tiger Woods faces yet another delay in the city, this time until at least 2022, according to a senior employee involved in the operation.

When it opens, the project will test whether Trump's corporate brand holds the same allure in a region where the former US President has enjoyed broad support. And it comes as the company is figuring out its path forward with Trump out of office.

Grafted onto the desert and ringed by a luxury housing development, the golf course doesn't yet display any of the typical, gold-emblazoned Trump signage. Instead, the name that's ubiquitous is Damac Properties, the local developer and Trump partner that's building the surrounding community, Akoya Oxygen.

While some homes in the development are occupied, vacant lots and empty homes can be seen sprinkled through neighbourhoods with names like Mimosa, Amazonia and Zinnia. On a recent Friday afternoon, there were more security guards than residents visible among rows of nearly identical white and yellow single-family homes. Sidewalks and playgrounds were