05 August 2007
Arab Real Estate Company (Arab RE) said yesterday it made an advance payment of Dh67 million to acquire land worth Dh1.34 billion from The Lagoons, a subsidiary of Sama Dubai.

Arab RE said in a statement on the Kuwait bourse website it will set up a new firm to develop the 928,865 square feet of land into a $1.2bn (Dh4.4bn) project called The Arabian Gardens. Arab RE will own 20 per cent of the new firm, it said.

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