{"id":801,"date":"2015-10-23T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T08:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2016-01-09T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T14:03:58","slug":"holy-moley-batman-theres-a-giant-mall-growing-on-the-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/the-palm-insider\/holy-moley-batman-theres-a-giant-mall-growing-on-the-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Moley Batman, There’s a Giant Mall growing on the Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it may be a boy thing, but I confess a large part of my childhood was spent digging holes, interspersed with a bit of tunneling, and occasionally shoring up a mountain – usually to dig through. Someone with a lot more resources that I as a five year old, or even as a 45 year old, clearly still likes a bit of tunneling, hole and mountain building on a weekend.<\/p>\n

Witness, in all its considerably glory, the Palm Mall hole on the 30th March of this year….<\/p>\n

\"Then3\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Then4\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"Then1\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"Then2\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Witness it as of last night (23rd October).<\/p>\n

\"Now3\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Now2\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"Now1\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

For the first time a small section now pokes its small head out from above ground level. I am sure someone, somewhere in Nakheel did a small dance at this point. I know, for a reason I cannot understand, I wanted to.<\/p>\n

<\/span> Update – 7th November 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mall1311\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span>  14th Nov update<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"1411MallRising\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And is this the spot of the new Palm Tower?<\/p>\n

\"1411MallRising2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>  28th Nov update<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"28Nov2015a\"<\/a> \"28Nov2015b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>  10th December update<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dec102015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>  23rd December update<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dec232015a\"<\/a> \"Dec232015b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>  28th December update<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dec282015a\"<\/a> \"Dec282015b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span>  9th Jan 2016 update<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"090116Hole\"<\/a> \"090116Hole2\"<\/a> \"090116Hole3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This theoretically is what it will end up looking like – although as we all know, never, ever believe a 3D rendering.<\/p>\n

\"Nakheel-Mall\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"Palm_Tower__Residences\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it may be a boy thing, but I confess a large part of my childhood was spent digging holes, interspersed with a bit of tunneling, and occasionally shoring up a mountain – usually to dig through. Someone with a lot more resources that I as a five year old, or even as a 45 year old, clearly still likes a bit of tunneling, hole and mountain building on a weekend.<\/p>\n

Witness, in all its considerably glory, the Palm Mall hole on the 30th March of this year….<\/p>\n

Witness it as of last night (23rd October).<\/p>\n

For the first time a small section now pokes its small head out from above ground level. I am sure someone, somewhere in Nakheel did a small dance at this point. I know, for a reason I cannot understand, I wanted to.<\/p>\n

 Update – 7th November 2015<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 14th Nov update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And is this the spot of the new Palm Tower?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

  28th Nov update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

  10th December update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

  23rd December update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

  28th December update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

  9th Jan 2016 update<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This theoretically is what it will end up looking like – although as we all know, never, ever believe a 3D rendering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nHoly Moley Batman, There's a Giant Mall growing on the Palm - Palm Jumeirah Guides<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/the-palm-insider\/holy-moley-batman-theres-a-giant-mall-growing-on-the-palm\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holy Moley Batman, There's a Giant Mall growing on the Palm - Palm Jumeirah Guides\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I think it may be a boy thing, but I confess a large part of my childhood was spent digging holes, interspersed with a bit of tunneling, and occasionally shoring up a mountain – usually to dig through. 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