Dubai was on Monday to officially open the world’s tallest tower, a symbol of the Gulf emirate’s unbridled ambitions, amid ongoing fears about a financial catastrophe.

Crews in Dubai rushed to complete final preparations for the opening of the world’s tallest skyscraper, which the developer said Monday cost about $1.5 billion to build.

Dubai is set to open the world’s tallest building Monday as the city seeks to revitalize its economy after a debt crisis in 2009 that forced the once-hot financial center to turn to neighboring Abu Dhabi for help.

Dubai (FT) — Dubai will on Monday open the world’s largest tower as the city seeks to revitalise its economy after 2009’s annus horribilis was capped by a debt crisis and a second $10bn bail-out loan from neighbouring Abu Dhabi.

Started at the height of the economic boom and built by some 12,000 laborers, the world’s tallest building will open on Monday in Dubai as the glitzy emirate seeks to rekindle optimism after its financial crisis.

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Dubai Gears Up To Inaugurate World’s Tallest Tower Burj Dubai On Monday; Height Still A Secret

DUBAI – His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will inaugurate Burj Dubai — the world’s tallest building at more than 800 metres — on Monday, January 4, which is also the fourth anniversary of the Accession Day of Shaikh Mohammed as Dubai Ruler.

Things are looking up in Dubai – way up. The Burj Dubai – which means Dubai Tower – opens Monday with a fun-filled ceremony complete with fireworks and a hair-raising parachute jump.

DUBAI – The Burj Dubai metro station will open on Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of the accession of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

DUBAI – His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will inaugurate Burj Dubai — the world’s tallest building at more than 800 metres — on Monday, January 4, which is also the fourth anniversary of the Accession Day of Shaikh Mohammed as Dubai Ruler.

Dubai is set to open the world’s tallest skyscraper Monday amid the Gulf emirate’s financial woes. The Burj Dubai tower contains 57 lifts, 1,044 apartments, 49 floors of office space and a hotel.

DUBAI – The once-bustling city will open the world’s tallest skyscraper on Monday, boasting new limits in design and construction, hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes afflicting the Gulf emirate.

Dubai is set to open the world’s tallest skyscraper Monday amid the Gulf emirate’s financial woes.

DUBAI: The once-bustling city will open the world’s tallest skyscraper on Monday, boasting new limits in design and construction, hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes afflicting the Gulf emirate.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 1 (UPI) — The Mideast’s Burj Dubai officially opens Monday with a mix of pop culture pizazz and security appropriate to 21st century twin realities of glamour and threat.